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

New England Chapel

To create an intergenerational service to help people experience and express God living and working through all life stages by exploring new ways of leading people of all ages in worship together.

Worshiping Communities
Franklin, massachusetts
2004
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Worshiping Communities Sacraments

New Hope Community Church

To introduce traditional hymns and spiritual songs to a new generation of believers through a year-long reflection on both the meaning and music of the passion of Christ and the practice of the Lord’s Supper.

Worshiping Communities
Durham , north carolina
2004
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership

New Hope Lutheran Ministries

To enhance the worship of small member congregations in a liturgical tradition through seminars connecting experts in worship and congregational life with pastors, leaders, and members of these congregations.

Worshiping Communities
Vandergrift, pennsylvania
2004
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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational

New Life Christian Reformed Church

To develop an intergenerational study of confession and assurance of pardon through the lens of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which will include a Lenten/Easter devotional series with participation from all ages and worship services focusing on scriptural images for the sacraments.

Worshiping Communities
Grand Junction, colorado
2004
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Worshiping Communities Alternative

New Life! Lutheran Church

To equip worshipers to pray more deeply in corporate worship through workshops during Lent, with the goal of deepening and enriching both personal and corporate prayer lives.

Worshiping Communities
Oak Grove, minnesota
2004
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Worshiping Communities Alternative

North Shore Chapel

To develop elements of worship that will foster communion with God and moments of transcendent experience for worshipers by focusing on sacred space, worship education, a midweek worship service, and creativity and arts in worship and music. 

Worshiping Communities
Danvers, massachusetts
2004
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Worshiping Communities Multicultural

Oakhurst Presbyterian Church

To engage members of various ethnic traditions to lead worship by identifying persons who are proficient in the arts, drama, music and writing for multicultural worship services and offering worship workshops, evening programs and retreats for both adults and children.  

Worshiping Communities
Decatur, georgia
2004
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership

Office of Worship and Christian Initiation, Archdiocese of Santa Fe

To provide an intensive training for liturgical leaders of the diverse minorities of the Catholic community through the Liturgical Institute of the Southwest.

Worshiping Communities
Albuguerque, new mexico
2004
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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational

Pasadena Covenant Church

To express Scripture through creative and artistic means by developing multigenerational ministry teams to engage in the telling and retelling of God’s story from one generation to another.

Worshiping Communities
Pasadena, california
2004
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Worshiping Communities Youth

Redeemer Presbyterian Church

To integrate children into planning, leading, and participating in worship through a summer education program, a workshop, a major conference, an internship program, and resource production.

Worshiping Communities
Indianapolis, indiana
2004
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Worshiping Communities Alternative

River Rock Church

To equip worship leaders and planners to become more thoughtful, intentional and hospitable in the practice and instruction of the dialogic nature in worship, and to help all worshipers better understand the liturgical elements of and patterns within worship. 

Worshiping Communities
Folsom, california
2004
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