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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 sponsor a conference for the Presbyterian Church in America in upstate South Carolina on the theological underpinnings and practical implications of renewal in worship and the arts.
To support a conference on programs to integrate worship, evangelism, hospitality, and small group ministries in the process of welcoming new members to a congregation
To begin a certification training program for musicians, pastors, and music leaders in Latino churches
To help churches develop stimulating and meaningful worship environments and sacred spaces for their congregations during a one-day workshop
To fund a one-day conference for hymn writers from Northern Indiana on writing hymns and other songs for worship
To develop a worship service called Cross-ConneXions, and other discipleship programs for youth and young adults
To enrich worship through learning, singing and sharing worship music from around the world, helping celebrate the diversity of the neighborhood, city and church
To provide education about worship, to train youth in the arts, and to empower them to participate in and lead worship
To explore, in conjunction with the Commission on Small Churches in the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia, methods where small congregations can design excellent intergenerational worship practices
To prepare college, university, and seminary students for musician and clergy positions in churches through a worship conference
To conduct a series of workshops that focus on the role of art and its impact on worship
To conduct an ecumenical workshop in liturgical dance to train leaders in the use of liturgical dance in worship, and to hold a liturgical dance concert
