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Find practical resources and scholarly works for congregational leaders, pastors, scholars, students, artists, and all interested in worship.
Learn about the Vital Worship, Vital Preaching Grants Program, designed to foster, strengthen and sustain well-grounded worship.
Find conferences, summer seminars, and other events covering a variety of engaging topics.
Read our mission statement, key commitments, and other important values in the range and scope of our programming.
You don’t have to be Black or attend a predominantly Black church to celebrate Juneteenth with appreciation and respect. Many resources are available for your congregation to cosponsor or plan a God-honoring Juneteenth event or worship service.
This list of Pentecost resources, including hymns, songs, visual arts, books, and sermon ideas, will help you plan worship for Pentecost Sunday, traditionally celebrated 50 days after Easter. Pentecost celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit on Jesus’ disciples, marked by a strong wind, tongues of fire, and manifested in the disciples’ speaking in foreign languages.
Developed in partnership with the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and the Calvin University School of Graduate and Continuing Studies, this online course equips worship planners and leaders of all types of ministries with practical tools for relating well to people from a variety of cultures. Understanding and respecting cultural differences is key to a healthy ministry.
CICW welcomes grant proposals on a wide range of Christian worship practices. The next application deadline is October 15, 2025.
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Pastor and educator Rasool Berry hosted and coproduced the award-winning documentary Juneteenth: Faith and Freedom. He explains why US Christians of every race and culture can and should celebrate God’s work through people to announce and enforce freedom from slavery.
While completing a grant on playfulness in worship, Sarah Travis began to see connections between play and trauma. Worshiping God through embodied, imaginative, and story-based practices helps people and congregations stuck in trauma begin to move toward healing and new life.
El reino al revés que Jesús ha inaugurado, el jubileo, demanda de nosotras y nosotros que le seguimos, un estilo de vida que, desde sus comienzos en la conversión, dé frutos que muestren nuestro arrepentimiento. En el trato a las mujeres y en el desempeño de nuestra profesión, nuestra vida debe ser una clara evidencia de que seguimos a Jesús.
Pastor and educator Rasool Berry hosted and coproduced the award-winning documentary Juneteenth: Faith and Freedom. He explains why US Christians of every race and culture can and should celebrate God’s work through people to announce and enforce freedom from slavery.
While completing a grant on playfulness in worship, Sarah Travis began to see connections between play and trauma. Worshiping God through embodied, imaginative, and story-based practices helps people and congregations stuck in trauma begin to move toward healing and new life.
El reino al revés que Jesús ha inaugurado, el jubileo, demanda de nosotras y nosotros que le seguimos, un estilo de vida que, desde sus comienzos en la conversión, dé frutos que muestren nuestro arrepentimiento. En el trato a las mujeres y en el desempeño de nuestra profesión, nuestra vida debe ser una clara evidencia de que seguimos a Jesús.
An emerging initiative to translate contemporary Korean worship songs into English is yielding fruitful questions and collaborations. The project is building ecumenical and generational community while introducing English speakers to Korean Christians’ ardent commitment to God, both personally and communally.
