Our Mission.

Called to be thankful: We celebrate God’s grace in worship, reflection, and action; nurture personal discipleship through education, prayer, and fellowship; and reach out with healing into a world seeking peace and justice. We welcome people of diverse backgrounds, lifestyles, beliefs, and relationships with God to join us on this journey.

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About Us.

Tippe’s primary ministry is our worship as a transformational, compassionate community seeking to be a healthy community, creating healthy individuals who go out into the world to build up the kingdom with peace and justice.  It is through the spiritual formation work each of us does that the community is empowered to assess spiritual risk in not reaching out vs. other consideration in forming our Outreach and Justice ministries 

Our first major mission, Living Waters Contemplative Life Center, offers experiences for personal transformation. Retreats and educational and formational classes are regularly offered as well as a host of healing arts,
all offered on a sliding scale.

The way in is the way out, so we are prompted to further reach out to others. We now host a mission Divine Intervention Ministry to the Homeless. This mission provides safe sanctuary warming rooms Dec. 1-March 31, 7 nights a week. We also offer weekly SOS Friday Night Potlucks April-November and twice weekly year-round Larry Under The Bridge brings food and basics to “campers” each Sunday evening.  Project Home supplies furniture and furnishings to those newly place turning apartments into homes, Winter Saturday Morning Respite, and our Gardens and Nutrition Interventions.

In an effort to address hunger in our neighborhood as well as embrace a creation theology which calls us to sustainability and care of our environment, The Tippecanoe Community Garden and Native American Wellness Garden developed as part of Tippe’s being a Food Justice Site PCUSA. Tippe hosts 38 organic growing beds and offers 3-4 interns moving out of homeless work force development opportunities in the garden.  Currently all vegetables grown are given away at Frieden Food Pantry at Hope House including nutrition education and cooking classes. Our garden ministries intertwine with our formation ministries hosting such events as Healing in the Garden and a Three Sister Ceremony with a smudging ritual. We actively participate in presenting hunger programs in the greater community, working collaboratively.

We are the first Green Roof Pantry Garden in Milwaukee as part of our effort to continually green ourselves while addressing hunger in our area and offer simple work to those
who need it to supplement self-esteem and financial need. A garden for every pantry in Milwaukee is our mantra!

And then there's our Arts and Science Literacy Camps supporting foundation literacy skills in children with Science as the subject through an Arts-Integrative Whole Child Approach to Learning.  Take a look deeper at our page.

In 2011, Tippe was awarded the Urban Ministry Award by the ICGM and written up in Presbyterian Today for its inventive, creative approach to ministry. 

We have moved from a decision making model of Discernment-Action to one of Action-Discernment.
No need to solve all the perceived problems before we even begin…for the Spirit knows! Together all things are possible.
It’s God’s church, not ours!

Directions.

Who are we affiliated with?

The Center for Progressive Christianity
An Approach to Christianity that is inclusive, innovative, and informed.

The Presbyterian Covenant Network

Interfaith Green Network

Fun is Key!

We know the community that plays together stays together and prays together! We do a lot of spontaneous gatherings…such as poetry nights, picnics, fire-pits with singing and marshmallows! Special focus on Family,
Kids, Intergenerational Peace Camps, and Prayer Ministries are on-going.

Go to our calendar to join us for an upcoming event!

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What we affirm.

We believe in the profound message brought to humankind by Jesus of Nazareth. We believe that  it is in this message
rather than the institutions conveying it that forms the  most enduring foundation for a positive life. We believe that Christ’s message is at least as germane to the world today as it was two thousand years ago. We  believe that this message better enables each of us to see and worship God in  our own way.  We believe that Christianity is enriched by human reason not in  conflict with it. We believe that as a church family, we are responsible to one another and our community.

-  Harrisena Community Church,  Lake George, NY

We believe in God, the power of life, love and being that flows through the universe.

We believe in Jesus, who revealed the  good news of our connectedness with God and with all people, who was compassionate and stood up for justice, even if this meant losing His life.

Through His words and example, we believe  that we too have this power and the capacity to give people an experience of God by living life fully, loving with our whole heart, and striving to be all we can be.

We are a people walking together, inseparably woven together as one in search for meaning and connected with the Source and Sustainer of all that exists.

- Progressive Christianity

What we believe.

If
By Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being  lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
 
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, 
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn  long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a human…being…
an Adult-Child of God!

Children Learn What They Live
 
If children live with criticism,
They learn to condemn.

If children live with hostility,
They learn to fight.

If children live with fear,
They learn to be apprehensive.

If children live with ridicule,
They learn to be shy.

If children live with shame,
They learn to feel guilty.

If children live with tolerance,
They learn to be patient.

If children live with encouragement,
They learn confidence.

If children live with praise,
They learn to appreciate.

If children live with approval,
They learn to like themselves.

If children live with acceptance,
They learn to find love in the world.