Tippe Staff


We Welcome Rev. Trish Eckert As Tippe's Head of Staff!
Email Trish at pastortrishtippechurch@gmail.com


Joyful Greetings to the beloved community at Tippe! I cannot wait to meet you all and join alongside you in being as well as doing.  The times we are living in are not just challenging - we are navigating a period of relentless change and upheaval. I am mindful of the grief and transition in which we are
all immersed. You are walking faithfully together and living into the joy and the pain of change, journeying together in their spirituality, engaging in action that is inspired and nurtured by that spirituality is at the heart of what

I am a life-long learner and seeker. My undergraduate studies (English, Sociology, Religion) led to a career in social work, which expanded into educational and mental health settings. At mid-life I sought a graduate degree that would embrace wholeness and meaning-making with other - this led me to seminary where I earned a degree in the Ministry of Writing, and then entered campus ministry and pursued a Master of Education that focused on spiritual discernment approaches. After a decade among undergraduates, I felt called to enter the pastorate, and have been serving a Quaker meeting (church) in the Finger Lakes region of New York since 2017. I am an avid reader and I love to travel! I turn to music and art, words and poetry for inspiration, sustenance, comfort, and insight. I greatly enjoy singing, hiking, dancing, and I listen ardently to a wide range of music.

I look forward to being among you. I deeply appreciate the warm welcome and support
​I have received from Tippecanoe already.

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Rev. Karen Hagen
Pastor

​Email Karen at pastor.tippechurch@gmail.com

At Tippe, we know Pastor Karen to be 
an enlightened leader and  intergenerational educator and healing arts practitioner. Karen’s leadership 
allows us to go deep and do our own work with power and joy and support. 

Pastor Karen's role is shifting as we Pastor Trish becomes Head of Staff here at Tippe during this year of transition as Pastor Karen prepares for retirement. Pastor Karen's primary role this year is to support Pastor Trish as well as our Outreach and Justice Ministries: Divine Intervention to the Homeless, Arts and Science Literacy Camp, and Living Waters Contemplative Life Center.

Pastor Karen has special interest and  skill in working with families, children and youth. She also brings energy and  organizing skills to support
us in mission. She is an interfaith justice activist, Pastor Karen plays with us, prays with  us, and stays with us!

Karen is a certified spiritual  director, a reiki master, and Threshold Singer. She is a practitioner of body, mind,
spirit practices from around the world and also is a reflexologist.

She serves ecumenically as a church 
consultant, mentor, and retreat leader
and is active in interfaith leadership 
throughout the greater area and state.

She provides to us all enlightened  leadership that helps each of us lead in our own lives!

Crystal Stinemates
Ministry Support Associate

Email Crystal at tippechurch@gmail.com

Crystal is dedicated to ministry!  She enriches the lives of the Tippe Faithing Community in all its configurations!  Crystal makes the lives of her coworkers in ministry easier as she supports worship, our spiritual wisdom teams, and the more than 200 volunteers in our Divine Intervention Ministry to the Homeless programs: Larry Under The Bridge; SOS Meals.  She attends to the usual office tasks that keep our community running but oh so much more! Besides Divine Intervention Ministry to the Homeless, Crystal supports Living Waters Contemplative Center.  "I so appreciate that my ministry is valued and is of support to so many in 'being church' with others."
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Janet Ahrens
Ministry of  Finance Associate

Email Janet

Sara Zallar
Ministry Support
Associate
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Email Sara at saramsatippechurch@gmail.com

We welcome Sara to our ministry team.  What a gift to us!  Sara works alongside Pastor Karen to help prepare worship to "zoom" easily and well.  And, in preparing Children and Families Ministries.  Her touch is also upon our Faith and Race Anti-racism missions.  Sara coordinates our DI Project Home ministry as well! Warm welcome Sara!

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Jay 
Church Caretaker

Jay is the caring spirit supporting the needs of our grounds as a way of ministering to others.  He attends to the bricks and mortar of the church building and our green grounds while being "church" to others. 

And meet Tippe's Adjunct Staff!

Estela Silva is our just.good.food Garden  Master Gardener - Garden Coordinator this year.  We grow and give away organic produce to local food pantries and at soup kitchens,  Last year, over 4500 lbs.!  We also do a once monthly healthy casserole making class...as covid allows!
Estela and our Garden Keeper Interns will be present on a near daily basis to oversee the growing season!  What a joy!

Rachel Hahn is our Community Garden Educator developing opportunities for nutrition education and hands-on learning about food prep and healthy recipes.  She guides our Nutrition Education Ministry at Bay View Community  Center where our garden harvest is donated.  Through cooking demonstrations, taste testing, and recipes using each week's fresh produce from our gardens, we grow healthy community.  What a joy!   Rachel works with our Interns from Divine Intervention and a host of others to manage our gardens and our Nutrition Education Program.  To get involved and have a great and meaningful time, email at Rachel at justgoodfoodgardentippe@gmail.com.  Watch for our first gathering of Tippe Garden Volunteers in April!

​AND, Session Leadership is KEY!

Our church leadership consists of elders who have a passion for ministry and a spirit of faith in what is always emerging within our faith community. With our staff, they guide and support ministry in all its forms and expressions at Tippe!