Shalom!

Welcome to our Shalom page!

     Shalom....
                         when we are at peace one with another,
                                                                           one with our world and creation,
                                                                                                                 one with our God! 

Shalom begins to happen as spirit and action become one. 
Shalom happens where Tippe's faith lives out and YOUR deep held values reach out!

At Tippe it is our experience that you really can't do one without the other...being spiritual without putting the spirit into action....or really practice the faith without holding what you do contemplatively.

We call this Contemplative Justice and Mission Ministries!

Please take a look at our offerings and know you are invited into the mystery of ministry with us!  Your ideas, interests, and energies matter to us.  Please join us!

AND....WE WANT YOU TO KNOW....
Tippe was one of the first churches in Wisconsin, one of the first in the nation, to stand up and say "No2Torture".  Before our denomination acted, we were active in education, advocacy, and reclaiming our faithful stance for the equality of all people and their right to equal access under the law. 

Please join with Tippe and make your beliefs know to our State Senators and Representatives as well as our President.

What you do....matters!

Contemplative Justice
and
Mission Opportunities
At Tippe

Some Reflective questions to ask yourself as you participate in outreach:

1. What is the nudge I am feeling that prompts me to serve in this ministry?
2. What is the thing most needed at this time...in this ministry, within me?
3. How have I received during this time of outreach...in other words, how have I become the mission project?
4. What is God inviting me to do or be or know or become that is just about and just for me through this experience?
5. What is the prayer that is rising up within me?
6. How can I remember this in ways that are life-giving to my daily choices?

A New Way Of Being Church....

Three Churches....One Big Community!
Summerfield Church UMC, Tippecanoe Church (PCUSA), and Village Church (ELCA)
are on a grand adventure together!

Tippe joins with our two sister churches
to emerge together as one grand parish
full of ministry opportunities for all!

We have three special events planned
for the 2009-2010 program year with more to follow!

Sunday October 11th at Noon
for Lakeside Interspiritual Worship
and a Crop Walk Joint Mission Project.
Our Theme:  We Are All Brothers And Sisters!

Wednesday January 6th 6:30pm
Ephiphany Fellowship Meal
hosted at Tippe

Palm Sunday Celebration March 28
Worship At Summerfield Church
Donkey Parade to City Hall led by Tippe Church
Easter Egg Dying for All at Village Church

Southeast Milwaukee Interfaith
Covenant Community

Ecumenical Cooperation (EcCo)

The Southeast Milwaukee Covenant Community is a cooperative ministry of 12 churches and the Islamic Center of Milwaukee on the southeast side of town.  EcCo is our sister organization led by lay people complimenting and giving form to our ministry. Here is an article about the EcCo covenant and ministry as published in the Bayviewer.

Tippe provides key leadership to both groups.

Ministries include:
Special worship services (such as the Interfaith Thanksgiving Service), a gathering of leaders through Week Of Prayer For Unity, YISR (Youth Interfaith Service Retreat), church ministry tours, Annual Interfaith Picnic, Open Door Free Clinic.

Want to be a part of planning new events or lending your hand to on-going ones?

You are welcome to join us.

Open Door Free Clinic...and other cooperative outreach ministries

This ecumenically initiated and supported non-profit provides health care services to the under-insured and uninsured.  Operating out of the facilities of Unity Lutheran Church on OKlamhoma Avenue in Bay View, services are provided most Wednesday evenings.  Registration begins at 5:30 pm.  Pastor Karen is one of the clergy providing chaplain services.  Please call the office at Unity for specific dates: 744-6311.

Unity offers a meal program open to all people Wednesday evenings just ahead of clinic time.  Bay View United Methodist on KK Ave. in Bayview offers a free meal program the first and last Sunday of each month.  For information call them at: 744-4928, or visit: opendoorfreeclinic.org .

Local food pantries are located at Bay View Community Center, St. Veronica's Parish, and St. Roman's Parish.

Congregational Action Network

The Interfaith Conference of Milwaukee informs its interfaith member communities on various issues important to the faith community.  Through its Congregational Action Network, CAN, ICM alerts members to critical votes, issues, actions needed.  

Tippecanoe Presbyterian Church responds to such alerts contacting government, business, and community leaders as key issues are before us.  Further, Tippe's session has instructed our Pastor and Contemplative Justice Liaison to be in contact with leaders using our church name to underscore the importance to the members of  Tippe. 

Here are some of the more recent issues to which Tippe has responded:

• Marriage Amendment - No
• Milwaukee Housing Trust Fund - YES
• Death Penalty - NO
• TABOR (Tax Freeze Legistalation) - NO
• TIP (Treatment Instead of Prison) - YES

Wisconsin Council of Churches

Providing leadership for communities statewide, WCC informs, educates, and supports leaders, pastors, and communities.  It is acitve in legislative, peace and justice, and community issues.  It offers theological enrichment opportunites and gathers people for conversation around topics of interest to the church community.

Pastor Karen serves on the Peace and Justice Committee of WCC.

Visit their website to participate in their offerings and actions.

Peacemaking Camp

Join us for our yearly intergenerational experience to find the peacemaker within and engage who we are into the world!  A yearly event in June, please join us this year as we center on peacemaking and the environment.

Want to help?  Leave a message for Sheri on our church phone:  481-4680

Tippe Special Offerings

Beyond our budgeted Mission Giving, Tippe supports various special offerings:

Crop Walk, Pentecost Offering, One Great Hour for Sharing, Christmas Joy Offering, Peacemaking Offering 

GIFTS Cold Weather
Men's Shelter

Tippe is the lead organizing church in a new interfaith mission project to provide shelter to men during the cold weather months of the year.  Rotating between hosting faith communities a week at a time, GIFTS offers a safe haven, warmth and meals, fellowship,
and support for up to 20 men per night in our neighborhoods on the southside.  This program is for those without significant issues that would need further support of case workers and special interventions.  AND, your help is needed!  AND, you will be helped as well for there is no way to seperate the "giving" from the "receiving" as we work together for a just world for all.

For more info, call Pastor Karen
at 414-481-4680

Hope House

Hope House provides transitional housing for women and families and shelter for men.  With dignity, individuals and families are supported in ways that make returning to permanent housing more possible.  Hope House provides these services while reaching out to the local community and addressing issues which affect the poor throughout our region.

Tippe has a history of intergenerational involvment at Hope House providing meals, game nights, community building, kids' station at food pantry, holiday gifts, and fundraising.  Pastor Karen serves on the Hope House Board of Directors.

Want to join us?  Leave a message for Jeannine at 481-4680.  Or, see the link to Hope House.

Common Grounds

Tippe is a founding member of this newly
formed advocacy organization which joins
faith communities, local community groups,
and businesses together to give voice to
issues in our community and actively
participate in shaping new approaches. 
Tippe moves beyond addressing the needs
of the needyto addressing policy which
creates the needs.

Some of our recent actions include addressing
summer youth employment in the City of
Milwaukee, housing needs in Ozaukee County,
Health Care Coverage for individuals in our state.

Bay View Community Center Food Pantry

Our local provider of services and support
for families and singles
in Bay View!

Tippe collects food monthly for the food pantry and is involved in many ways including clean-ups, fundraising, and supporting programs.

What some one can do to get involved. 1.) Bring food to Tippe first Sundays of each month  2.) Volunteer to help get bags ready and hand out groceries, etc. 3.) Attend programs 4.) Make financial donations   5.) Make Mitten Tree donations during November 6.) Participate in family gift giving during the holidays

Southeast Interfaith For The Elderly

This county wide organization provides services on the near southside for seniors who need transportation, visitation, and other auxillary services to make staying in their homes possible.

Tippe serves on the Board of this organization and plays a key role in fundraising and raising up volunteers. 

Please join us by leaving a message for Margaret or Barb at 481-4680.

Knitting and Sitting Into The Mystery

This group of young and old, male and female, knit various items to be used as prayer and for spiritual support.  Newly added is a component called Knitting For Peace.  Come find out all about it...and learn to knit...or sit...as well.  Call Carla at 483-8231

Hunger Task Force

Under Construction!

To include Crop Walk (co-sponsored by the Interfaith Conference of Milwaukee) and ways you can volunteer and make a difference in our local community

Email Your Representatives:

	Federal: Senator Russ Feingold
	Senator Herb Kohl
	Rep Gwen Moore Wisconsin:
	WI Rep Christine Sinicki
	WI Senator Jeffrey Plale Milwaukee County:
	Sup. Richard D. Nyklewicz City of Milwaukee:
	Alderman Zielinski

And there's more!

We financially support other local missions as well as give on a national/international level through the PCUSA.  We care about our own members, too, reaching out with support. 

And we offer opportunities for spiritual growth and development to the greater community through our mission ministry: Living Waters Contemplative Life Center.