Tip and Laurie Killingsworth
80 Wildwood Rd.
Lynchburg, VA 24502
(434) 534-0684

Tip & Laurie both trusted Christ at a young age.  Tip, at Calvary Baptist Church in Casa Grande, Arizona and Laurie in a Vacation Bible School at a Bible church in Meeker, Colorado.

Laurie's parents were retired public school teachers and Tip's mom is retired from her photography business.  Tip’s dad passed away in March 1992 and Laurie's dad passed away in December 2008.

Tip attended Arizona State University and gradually went from involvement in the Baptist Student Union to Campus Crusade for Christ.  He met Laurie during his sophomore year at ASU.  Tip became Youth Pastor at Church of the Redeemer in Mesa, AZ as well as student leader of Campus Crusade at ASU while doing his student teaching during his final year.  He graduated on June 2, 1970.

Laurie attended Grand Rapids School of the Bible and Music for a year, BIOLA University for a year and Arizona State Univ. for two years where she met Tip.  She sang in a group called "The New Beginning" while attending ASU.  Laurie was crowned Miss Wool of Arizona her junior year and competed in the national pageant in San Angelo, Texas that summer.  She majored in nursing and joined Campus Crusade staff in 1969 to travel with Campus Crusade's singing group "The New Folk."  Laurie worked for two years at Patricia Stevens Modeling Agency as an Instructor and receptionist.

In June 1970, Tip graduated from ASU and Laurie finished the tour.  They were married on June 6, 1970 and assigned to the Univer­sity of Alabama.  Tip ministered mainly to football players and taught Sunday school (12 yr old boys) at South Highlands Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  Laurie ministered to college girls at the university.  In 1972, Tip & Laurie recruited heavily for the largest Christian training conference in history of 85,000 in Dallas, Texas called EXPLO '72.  Tip appeared as the featured college student in a Billy Graham financed documentary film called "Spiritual Explosion."  Laurie appeared as his girlfriend.

One of Tip's assignments at the University of Alabama was to plan and organize the ministry visit of Campus Crusade's Athletes in Action Weight­lifting team who later asked Tip to do the same thing for them nationwide.  Tip & Laurie accepted the challenge and worked with AIA for two years based in Tulsa, OK.  Tip was asked to be youth pastor at Tulsa Bible Church in 1974, but he and Laurie decided to go to the mission field with Campus Crusade in the Republic of Ireland.

They arrived in Galway, Ireland in Jan. 1975 where they worked with Irish college students for nearly twelve years.  The first six years were at Univ. College Galway.  Laurie was the women's training director until their first son, Trey, was born in 1977 and their second son, Jason, was born in 1979.  Tip was the campus director for two years and in 1980, they moved to Dublin, Ireland to establish and direct the Training Center for Campus Crusade.  He was also the campus director at Trinity College Dublin.  Tip was a local preacher at Dundrum Methodist Church, on the church leadership team, and taught a high school Sunday school class.  Their third son, Joshua, was born in 1981 and their daugh­ter, Trinity, in 1984.

In 1985 Tip was “loaned” to the Billy Graham organi­za­tion where he coordinated and super­vised the Billy Graham Crusade in Dublin by live satellite link (from Sheffield, Eng­land.)  This was the first time anyone had organized a satellite con­fer­ence in the Republic of Ireland.  Six thousand people attended three evenings and over 600 indicated first time decisions to trust Christ.  In 1986 Tip's first disciple in Ireland took over as National Director of Campus Crusade for Christ and they felt it was time to move on.  Recently Tip and Laurie learned that there are over 96 house churches in the Republic of Ireland as a result of their ministry time in Ireland.

In 1986 they moved back to the U.S. where Tip completed his Master of Arts degree in Missions.  He rejoined Athletes in Action and served as Chaplain for the LA Raiders, Rams, and Clippers over the next three years.  In 1989 Tip transferred to Campus Crusade's "New Life 2000: Manila" office to help evangelize the 8 million people in Manila, Philip­pines.  In 1990 he was asked to work on the CCC leadership team of the vice president who directed Campus Crusade’s National Minis­tries in the U.S.  Tip worked as his assistant until November 1991.

Tip then took the job of Assistant to the Director of the International Ministry where he supervised Missions & International Recruiting, as well as the Director's office team.  Much of his work involved International Crisis Management as well as various special projects in H.R.

In March of 1993, Tip assumed responsibilities as Director of Human Resources for The Orlando Institute, Campus Crusade for Christ’s seminary at their headquarters in addition to a teaching role.  After leaving the staff of CRU (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ, in 1999 Tip started Masterlife International. Tip & a friend, Kirk Bane, started Orlando’s Promise Keeper Task Force in October of 1994 and served as the volunteer local coordinator until the summer of 1995.

Tip and Laurie served for four years in Saddleback Valley Community Church led by pastor Rick Warren.  Tip was one of the original Lay Pastors then served for a time as a senior and ultimately a District Lay Pastor.  Laurie taught the Heart-To-Heart women’s ministry Bible Study each week and was a featured speaker in women’s retreats for churches in the area.  Upon moving with the Campus Crusade for Christ headquarters ministry to Orlando, they joined First Baptist Church of Orlando led by Pastor Jim Henry.  Tip and Laurie taught various Bible study classes and Tip served on the leadership team for the Men’s Ministry.

 In August 2002, the Killingsworths moved to Lynchburg, VA where Tip has taught classes in missions at Liberty University.  Tip is currently working on his Doctorate in Ministries through Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.  He earned his Professional in Human Resources after studying at the University of Central Florida in 1994.

The Killingsworths have five grown children, sons 34, 32, 29, and two daughters 27 (one adopted).

Trey, the oldest, was a University of Florida Gator wide receiver on the national championship Gator football team (1996-97) and as a Series 7 stock broker, he's Vice President of National Accounts for CNL Financial in Orlando, FL.  Trey is married to Jennifer and they have two sons, Tipton Isaac,  8/1/2000 and Sean Preston 10/18/2002.

Jason, 32, graduated Dec. 15, 2001 from the University of Florida as an English major.  He recently became the Features Editor for Edge Magazine.  Jason and his wife, Summer have a beautiful one year old baby boy, Liam.  They live in Bath, England.

Joshua, 29, is married to Jenni and they're expecting their first baby in late October 2011.  Josh works for Mosaic Tile in Washington, DC.  He's also starting a car business rebuilding cars and selling them.

Trinity, 27, graduated in 2006 with a bachelor's degree from Liberty University and now works as a self-employed model living in Manhattan, NY.  She works with the GM Chevy team as a product representative at car shows all over the country and does other modeling jobs.  Trinity is a leader with Models for Christ and has her own website, www.trinitylaurel.com

Karis, 27, was married in August of 2002 to David McDuffie  and they have two little girls, Karissa and Grace.

MasterLife International currently has three staff working to help churches develop evangelism and discipleship ministries to foster solid church growth.  Tip consults with various fellowships and Laurie currently leads the Passionate Hearts ministry within MasterLife International, leading women’s conferences nationwide.  Her first book, One Passionate Heart, was published in February 2002.