CICW has awarded Vital Worship, Vital Preaching Grants for over 20 years to teacher-scholars and worshiping communities in 45+ states and provinces and across 40+ denominations and traditions—including Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, non-denominational, and other Protestant communities.


While worship styles and practices vary greatly across these traditions, the grant projects typically explore at least one of CICW’s ten core convictions related to worship. Explore the hundreds of projects we’ve funded across both streams of the program.

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Worshiping Communities Congregational Life Music

Castleton United Methodist Church

To live into a theology of singing as sacramental presence by reflecting on the history of communal singing, practicing embodied and paperless singing, developing new song leaders, and composing new songs. 

Worshiping Communities
Indianapolis, indiana
2025
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Teacher-Scholar Preaching

Catholic Theological Union

Edward Foley

To empower preachers to effectively engage with science in their sermons and homilies through a training program and the creation of digital resources. 

Teacher-Scholar
Chicago, illinois
2025
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Worshiping Communities Preaching Youth

Celestial Church of Christ Emmanuel Parish

To deepen biblical and theological understanding of preaching and empower emerging leaders by developing a participatory model of sermon creation and presentation that intentionally involves youth worship leaders.  

Worshiping Communities
Toronto, ontario
2025
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Worshiping Communities Missional Music

Charisma Christian Church

To cultivate a spiritually healthy, emotionally resilient, and missionally engaged congregation by forming disciples through contextual preaching, participatory music, liturgical art, and personal devotion practices. 

Worshiping Communities
Rio Grande, puerto rico
2025
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Worshiping Communities Online Resources

Christ Church Cranbrook

To facilitate active worship by teaching congregants about embodied worship and developing worship activities available for communal and devotional use on an app.

Worshiping Communities
Bloomfield Hills, michigan
2025
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Worshiping Communities Formation Intergenerational

Christ Church Nashville

To ground the congregation in scripture by creating and integrating theologically rich songs, testimonies, and other resources into worship services, supported by a new worship arts studio. 

Worshiping Communities
Nashville, tennessee
2025
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership

Christ Church of Davis

To encourage thoughtful reflection on current worship practices by gathering a cohort of pastors that will explore a comprehensive, contextualized, and historically rooted philosophy of worship and ministry.

Worshiping Communities
Davis, california
2025
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