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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.
A sacred music grant project helped Catholic parishioners from many ethnicities—Anglo, Eritrean, Filipino, Latino, Nigerian, Vietnamese, and more—experience the awe and mystery of faith and God.
This resource guide for Ordinary Time includes sermon ideas, worship songs and hymns, visual arts, and readings to help you plan “ordinary” worship—times in the church year outside the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost. The season’s liturgical color is green, symbolizing a time of growth in the Christian life. This guide also includes ideas for worship on Christ the King Sunday, Thanksgiving, and All Saints’ Day/Reformation Sunday.
Are you interested in applying for a Vital Worship, Vital Preaching grant? Join us for this free webinar catered toward new or prospective applicants to learn more about the program and participate in a live Q&A.
CICW welcomes grant proposals on a wide range of Christian worship practices. The next application deadline is October 15, 2025.
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El salmo celebra la realidad de que la creación, día a día, proclama la gloria de Dios, su poder y su generosidad. La Palabra es también el medio por el cual Dios nos instruye para que vivamos plenamente la vida. Dios, por medio de su Espíritu, transforma nuestra vida para que vivamos una vida plena y agradable a Él.
Pastors of three Hispanic churches will share what they learned from experiences implementing congregational projects related to the development of new understandings and practices of worship and preaching.
How did early Christians understand their illness and pain in their Greco-Roman context?
El salmo celebra la realidad de que la creación, día a día, proclama la gloria de Dios, su poder y su generosidad. La Palabra es también el medio por el cual Dios nos instruye para que vivamos plenamente la vida. Dios, por medio de su Espíritu, transforma nuestra vida para que vivamos una vida plena y agradable a Él.
Pastors of three Hispanic churches will share what they learned from experiences implementing congregational projects related to the development of new understandings and practices of worship and preaching.
How did early Christians understand their illness and pain in their Greco-Roman context?
Explore how Christians in the earliest centuries of Christianity engaged topics related to wealth and poverty in their preaching, public prayers, offerings, celebrations of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and the shaping of buildings and spaces for Christian worship.
