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On the campus of Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary
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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.
To unify churches who share a common neighborhood by implementing ecumenical and contextual worship that meets the needs of the community.
To learn about inclusive worship in order to craft creative liturgies that allow for the full, conscious, active participation of all members of the community.
To facilitate relationships between Anglo- and African-American churches by fully engaging in one another’s worship experiences and by creating liturgical art together.
To reflect on Scripture and culture in order to compose songs and worship expressions that are fitting to a multicultural urban congregational context.
To cultivate an awareness of God’s glory by establishing shared rhythms and spaces to connect daily life and corporate worship.
To expand and strengthen the communal nature of campus worship by exploring the relationship between liturgy and spiritual disciplines and by engaging visual art as a form of intercessory prayer.
To build relationships between English-speaking and Spanish-speaking congregations by worshiping together and sharing stories of each community’s religious and cultural traditions.
To identify, disciple, equip, and encourage a group of diverse worship leaders who can implement multicultural worship that reflects the diversity present in the congregation and community.
To cultivate deep hospitality that allows students from diverse backgrounds to feel at home and be formed in worship by a common vocabulary and common values around spiritual formation and chapel services.
To cross cultural boundaries between worshiping communities in the city by training and equipping local worship leaders to hospitably lead multicultural worship.
To create a lectionary for undergraduate academic communities that integrates the academic and liturgical calendars in order to facilitate holistic spiritual formation in campus worship.
To facilitate a yearlong emphasis on worship and the arts in local congregations by hosting a series of national meetings that train local leaders in the theology and practice of formational liturgy.
