Rooted in Love

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Sparking Joy

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Made for Sharing

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Rooted in Love 〰️ Sparking Joy 〰️ Made for Sharing 〰️

Tandem Joy Publishing is a unique publishing boutique creating beautiful faith-centered treasures that encourage women to abide in Christ together, grow in unity, and share their joy.

Tandem Joy Publishing exists to help women experience Bible study as a shared, Spirit-led life with God so that we can grow closer to Him and to each other. Our journals, devotionals, and curated resources encourage women to abide in Christ, notice the Spirit at work, and celebrate God together in every season of life.

Abiding in Christ together produces shared joy!

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Is Tandem Joy for You?

You are searching for something higher. You love God deeply, but somewhere along the way faith began to feel like something to accomplish rather than a life to share in loving relationships.

Maybe you know a lot of biblical truth, yet still wonder what it looks like to experience that truth in the ordinary places of your life.

Are you curious about God, but hesitant to seek Him out? You have questions. The things you’ve experienced in Christian spaces have made you cautious, and you are desperate for a place to wonder, wrestle, and discover that God is trustworthy.

Maybe life, failure, grief, or others’ actions have left you wondering whether God is still near. You wonder: Is there really a place for your whole story among His people?

Or perhaps you are the one holding the door, welcoming others who are too busy and uninterested to come.

You see women carrying different stories, questions, wounds, personalities, and experiences of faith, and you long to gather and shepherd them well. You want to create a place where truth and grace meet, where no one has to pretend, and where women can encounter the living God together without requiring everyone at the table to be the same.

If your heart whispered yes anywhere along the way, welcome. There is room for you here!

Tandem Joy is an invitation to slow down and notice the God who is already near. Through Scripture, reflection, story, conversation, beauty, and shared experiences, we create resources that help women move beyond simply knowing about God toward recognizing His presence and living with Him in the middle of everyday life, together.

We believe God's Word is trustworthy, His presence is worth delighting in, and His people are more beautiful together. Our resources are deeply rooted in Scripture while making room for questions, different stories, and the beautiful variety God has created among His people.

Our hope is that you would become more rooted in the love of Christ, more awake to His presence, more at rest in His grace, and more able to recognize and celebrate His work in the people around you.

Come curious. Come tired. Come with questions. Come ready to gather others.

Come as you are, and let's notice God together.

Welcome to Tandem Joy.

Reflectional Journals

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Author & Creative Partnerships

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Gifts

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Tandem Joy Groups

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Reflectional Journals 〰️ Author & Creative Partnerships 〰️ Gifts 〰️ Tandem Joy Groups 〰️

Beyond Boutique Publishing

Tandem Joy Publishing is moving toward something beautiful and bright.

Not only do we long to see Christian women gathering in homes, small groups, and churches, but we want to see Christian women come together in artistic community festivals filled with joy, worship, shared stories, and the steady presence of Christ among them. Events that celebrate Christian ministry and creative works across denominational lines. We want Christian unity to show the world Christ’s words are true (John 17)with a beautiful bounty of whimsy and culture!

We also dream of a Joy House, a place of rest and healing where women walking through mental illness are welcomed with gentleness and dignity. A home where peace is practiced, where Christ is near, and where no one has to walk alone.

What follows is a glimpse of that vision taking shape, a visual expression of what we believe God is growing.

We welcome collaborators, authors, people helpers, and other ministry boutiques to reach out. Our dream is to build partnerships that make a strong statement about Christ’s words. Perhaps, you are a woman whom God has birthed a similar dream?

Let’s work together! We believe what Christ said is true, and that truth is best seen when Believers work together in joyful unity!

John 17:20-23 ESV 

“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.” - Jesus

Diagram illustrating the four phases of growth for Tandem Joy Publishing and Tandem Joy Ministries, including creating journals, opening a bookstore and community space, hosting community Christian events, and establishing a residential center for women in mental distress.
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Our Founder

 Child of God, Dreamer, Artist, Songbird, Encourager, Wife, Mother, and Prayer Warrior

Katie loves working with others to create beautiful, heart-focused discipleship resources designed to help people slow down, reflect, pray, and abide deeply with Christ. She serves alongside her husband in ministry and has spent more than twenty years walking with others through prayer, discipleship, and compassionate care.

A pastor’s wife and whimsical mother of four, Katie is passionate about creating spaces where people feel seen, encouraged, and gently invited into God’s transforming presence. She loves leading listening prayer, offering lay counseling through her church, singing with her guitar, painting, and helping others cultivate lives rooted in joy, beauty, and intimacy with Jesus. Whether through conversation, creativity, prayer, or writing, Katie’s heart is to remind people that God has extended His love to them & they are not alone.

Katie Rippy