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 Education/Leadership

Praise English Ministry

To explore a theology of the body to provide a foundation for leadership and laity to engage theologically and practically around issues of mental health, race, gender, and ability.

Worshiping Communities
Somerset, new jersey
2024
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Worshiping Communities Congregational Life

Presbyterian Peace Fellowship

To support Christian peacemakers by developing regular opportunities for virtual corporate worship and by sharing together in the joys and griefs of peacemaking through the practices of prayer and praise, celebration and lament.

Worshiping Communities
Stony Point, new york
2024
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Teacher-Scholar Intercultural Music

Princeton Theological Seminary

Hyun Woo Kim

To empower Asian American churches to embrace their cultural heritage, reconcile intergenerational differences, and re-envision worship in ways that reflect their congregants’ diverse identities and experiences by integrating Asian cultural elements into Western hymnody and worship frameworks.

Teacher-Scholar
Princeton, new jersey
2024
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Worshiping Communities Multicultural Music

Proskuneo Ministries

To promote unity within diversity in Christian worship by providing safe and hospitable spaces for multilingual songwriting processes among diverse groups, leading to the incorporation of multilingual songs into existing liturgies.

Worshiping Communities
Stone Mountain, georgia
2024
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Teacher-Scholar Preaching

Providence Theological Seminary

Robert Dean

To resituate homiletics within a Christological and robustly trinitarian framework by examining prominent assumptions governing preaching today, in order to revitalize North American preaching for the sake of the formation of worshiping communities.

Teacher-Scholar
Niverville, manitoba
2024
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Worshiping Communities Anti-Racism Justice

Ravensworth Baptist Church

To decolonize worship life by auditing the liturgy, music, preaching, and sacred spaces of the church in order to fully live into the church’s commitment to antiracism and its mission of “Sharing Love, Doing Justice, and Building Community.”

Worshiping Communities
Annadale, virginia
2024
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Visual Arts

Reconciliation Anglican Church

To integrate ancient liturgy and prayer with expressions of worship such as art, meal sharing, and communal serviceso as to strengthen connections between gathered worship and daily life.

Worshiping Communities
Bellingham, washington
2024
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Worshiping Communities Formation Testimony

River East Church

To facilitate a deep engagement with scripture through a culture of God-centered storytelling that develops the habit of naming God as the main actor in stories from both scripture and worshipers’ lived experience.

Worshiping Communities
Winnipeg, manitoba
2024
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