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Reached a tipping point?  ...a breaking point?

Tippe Touches Lives!

So...If...You're...On A Spiritual Quest?
                                
Journey with us!

We really appreciate your being here. Our hope is you will get a sense of who we are and God's presence with us. We understand the importance of life stories, hopes, dreams, spiritual journeys. We would feel honored to share our story with you and to hear your story. Take a look around our site. We have lots to offer each other. Please give us a call or come Sunday morning at 9:30 AM to join us in worshiping.

On a spiritual quest?  Looking to develop a personal relationship with God while held within a community that challenges as well as nurtures you?  Open to the diverse gifts and insights of others?  Desiring to find your unique "way" to faith within a sense of "oneness" known in a depth community?  Then....

• Come, try a church that sees life as an expression of worship - uplifted by prayer and grounded in care for others.

• We get it!  For faith to support you, it has to work in real life situations....a confrontation on the job, a crisis with a friend, an attempt at reasoning with your two year old.  At least, that's how we see it at Tippe.  We're here to help.

• We not only recognize that God gave each of us a mind of our own, we believe that God expects us to use it, creatively! When you visit us, you'll hear the gospel preached with strength, gentleness, and insight. You will experience us praying, laughing and crying, singing and growing together.

• So, if you're looking for a religion that makes as much sense on Monday as it did on Sunday, and a place that's as good for your soul as it is for your mind, give us a try.

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Life-Giving Sunday Morning Worship 9:25 a.m.

Tippe Cafe follows!

Then the morning continues with thought-full education classes
for all!  (During the program year.) Click here for details

Nursery Care is provided throughout the morning.

Living Waters Contemplative Life Center is a mission ministry
of Tippecanoe Church.
It is an outreach to unchurched, dischurched and formerly churched peoples
of any and many faith traditions.
Further, its mission is to make spiritual formation opportunities
affordable to all people,
especially those of modest income and the working poor.  
Its offerings are funded through much appreciated donations and the generosity of the members and friends of "Tippe".

Holy Breath...

Our 2010 Lenten Worship Theme!

Join us as we gather within this breath-taking theme
and are reminded that life is breath and God is life!

Using the Aramaic teachings of the Lord's Prayer
and the Beatitudes to support our journey,
and breath work and special music, too....
we will explore Lent with the mindfulness
of our deepest connection to each other and creation....
OUR BREATH!

JOIN US FOR THE JOURNEY!
Don't hold your breath another instant!
EXHALE and BREATHE DEEPLY!

Visit our Special Events Page
So you can plan to be with us for
Lent into Holy Week into Easter

You  just missed.....

ADVENT 2009 up to the New Year... Followed Our Theme:

Before Your Cradle...Before The Creche
How the stories of Jesus' family and
 our families shape us...And Not!
And the season was complete with festivities:
Hanging of the Greens, potluck community lunch
Advent fun and games after worship (11/29/09)
Christmas Caroling to our shut ins (12/20/09)
Carols in the Sanctuary Christmas Eve followed
by Christmas Eve Family Candle-light Service
New Year's Worship (12/27/09)..a meditative
service of simple song and prayer to usher in
a new year of life and ministry!
Epiphany Good News with the
Garlic Mustard Pickers (1/3/10) a day spent
de-hanging the Greens and enjoying chili lunch,
Epiphany Kings, cake, song, dance & fun

Our Fall 2009 Worship and Gathering Theme...
Through The Heart Of God:
Recycling Our Thinking, Our Habits,
Our Very Souls!

Eastertide 2009! Our Theme.....
Allelujah!  Yes, We Can!
 In God, we find our Easter-hope and are invited each day to live that hope! 
Allelujah, Yes, We Can!  
 We are each reminded we are the ones who change lives…
and the world…with our own two hands. 
The movement we’ve been looking for is here! 
We can make it happen!  We are the ones we’ve been waiting for!

Last Year at This Time

Our Lenten 2009 theme was: What If Church Were A “Movement”

….And You Were The First To Join?
IT IS!    AND, YOU ARE!
Movements begin with some-one’s passion
….and create hope! Hope creates the thing ….that it contemplates. 

Yet…hope denied, sedates.  So, find your hope!  Don’t let it be denied! 

The movement you’ve been looking for is here!

It is a socio/political/progressive movement...

a psychological, emotional, spiritual movement within.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for!

And there was Mardi Gras: Fat Tuesday into Ash Wednesday

Celebration and Worship Expression!

Pancakes, mask making, crowning the Queen & King..

before our moving into Lent

What brought us together in 2008
An in-between time in HIS life..Winter weeks of preparation.....for our journey with HIM through life....The wisdom teachings of Jesus from an in-between time in HIS life...the time between HIS call and the beginning of HIS ministry..an ordinary extraordinary time! During our journey with HIM, we ask ourselves What kind of help is help...now? 

preceded by...
Advent Preparation for the Celebration of new life in HIS Birth: FRAMING THE SEASON with HOPE, PEACE, LOVE AND JOY....framing with birthing stories...Jesus' and our own!

Fall worship 2008 gathered in the theme....
The Fallow Way
Fall colors, crisp air, and autumn aromas remind us we have much bounty in our lives, plenty even in these seemingly sparse times.

Lent 2008 “To Walk In The Garden” 
Walking the Garden as Families.
God the Creator creates out of love, through families.

Long ago, but Not So Far Away....

our 2007 Autumn worship theme
"Falling Forward"
continued into October as we worshiped around the theme:
"A Sigh Too Deep For Words"
Eastertide at Tippe 2007, Our Theme for
This Joyous Time was
"If You Want to Walk on Water...You
Have To Get Out of the Boat!"
built from our Lenten theme:
"We Don't Have to Travel in the Same Boat to
Journey Together"

The People Of Tippe Celebrate Our Gifted Staff:

Pastor:  Rev. Karen Hagen
enlightened preacher and intergenerational educator,
certified spiritual director, reiki master, interfaith justice acitivist,
ecumenical retreat leader, Threshold Singer, member of
Spiritual Directors International

Director of Music Ministry:  Mark Wooldrage
featuring specially enhanced worship music, the ministry of the
Celebration Singers, children's music, special ensembles.

Mark invites you to join in the ministry with us. 
Mark writes much original music for worship
based on our seasonal themes
....beyond praise....
and leads the Tippe Band which uses a blend
of Celtic, Blue Grass, and Rock.

Mark works collaboratively with Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
as we use much of Richard's music,
as well as Karen Drucker's music,
in all aspects of our worship life together.

Tippe's Accompanist:  MaryBeth Garrett