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 Intergenerational Worship Leadership

Church Music Ministry of Canada

To encourage intergenerational worship in Chinese churches by empowering seniors to participate in worship leadership and by training leaders to foster inclusion of laypersons representing multiple generations. 

Worshiping Communities
Coquitlam, british columbia
2025
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Worshiping Communities Preaching Youth

Church of God Mission Board

To train young people to preach through formation that encourages biblical understanding, spiritual growth, and community mission and provides opportunities for youth to preach in various contexts. 

Worshiping Communities
Americana, puerto rico
2025
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Teacher-Scholar Worship Practices

College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University

Anna Mercedes

To build the capacity of worshiping communities to be formed as peacemakers and to move through conflict transformatively through the development of restorative justice practices for use in worship.

Teacher-Scholar
Collegeville, minnesota
2025
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Teacher-Scholar Historical

Concordia Seminary

Kent Burreson

To help worshiping communities respond thoughtfully to contemporary Christian worship by bringing the study of Martin Luther's writings on worship and the sacraments into dialogue with modern cultural engagement with worship. 

Teacher-Scholar
St. Louis, missouri
2025
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Teacher-Scholar Education/Leadership Formation

Concordia University Nebraska

Peter Jurchen

To strengthen vocational discipleship by researching, designing, and implementing a theologically grounded faculty and staff faith formation framework that aligns professional development with spiritual and liturgical rhythms.

Teacher-Scholar
Seward, nebraska
2025
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Worshiping Communities Music Visual Arts

connect.faith

To connect with God and others in a distracted world by practicing stillness, listening to each other’s stories, and collaboratively creating music, visual art, and literary pieces that showcase God’s work in the life of the community. 

Worshiping Communities
Pleasantville, new york
2025
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Worshiping Communities Formation Liturgy

Cornerstone Baptist Church

To anchor congregational worship in the Psalms through the practices of prayer, Scripture reading, and sharing testimony, so that members will be firmly rooted in long-standing healthy habits that biblically inform congregational identity. 

Worshiping Communities
Montague, prince edward island
2025
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Teacher-Scholar Creation Care

Denver Seminary

Michelle Stinson

To explore a biblical theology of divine hospitality that examines themes related to God as Creator, Sustainer, and Gracious Host at the Table in worship and in the tables of life, and to consider ways of practicing hospitality as an expression of the missio dei.

Teacher-Scholar
Littleton, colorado
2025
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Worshiping Communities Accessibility Collaboration

Disciples Home Missions

To create an intentional worshiping community of adult disciples seasoned in liturgical leadership to gather in worship and cross-pollinate their unique worship practices, culminating in leadership at the Disciples Worship and Arts Institute that welcomes participants from across the Christian church. 

Worshiping Communities
Indianapolis, indiana
2025
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Teacher-Scholar Justice Worship Resources

Drew University

Angela Yarber

To create a worship planning resource for the Revised Common Lectionary that includes justice-centered exegesis, musical suggestions, prayers and rituals contributed by ministers from marginalized groups.

Teacher-Scholar
Madison, new jersey
2025
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