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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First Baptist Church on Fifth

To reflect the church's renewed mission to become a sanctuary for the city by broadening worshipers' imagination for worship and deepening its engagement with the community.

Worshiping Communities
Winston-Salem, north carolina
2020
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University of Dubuque (2018)

To raise up the value of sacred space by exploring how the practice and visually marking of sacred space in the chapel can extend into the rest of the campus.

Worshiping Communities
Dubuque, iowa
2018
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Glen Ellyn Evangelical Covenant

To strengthen and encourage intergenerational worship through the church year and creative excellence in all aspects of worship including music, visual arts, sacred space design, spoken and written proclamation, prayer, and liturgy—all guided by the psalms. 

Worshiping Communities
Glen Ellyn, illinois
2014
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Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church

To initiate study and experimentation into the theology of worship space and worship hospitality that will inform anticipated renovations to the worship space so that they are done with theological integrity, artistic and architectural excellence and sensitivity to the needs of the worshiping community.

Worshiping Communities
Asheville, north carolina
2013
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Cornerstone University

To facilitate a study of the history and usage of the chapel program that will lead to the creation of an architectural programming guide for the construction of a new chapel building that is historically rooted, contextually useful and communicates theological truths of the Christ-centeredness of the school.

Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2012
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Kent Lutheran Church

To offer workshops that teach the congregation how art, color and light in the worship space engage members and visitors in worship that includes baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

Worshiping Communities
Kent, washington
2009
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Second Christian Reformed Church

To explore the creative use of the existing worship space as well as to define and expand the usage of that space through intergenerational study and dialogue on worship.

Worshiping Communities
Grand Haven, michigan
2006
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Wauwatosa Presbyterian Church

To gather information and establish a common set of expectations and values for worship services, to identify planning models that work within the framework of shared responsibility, and to implement these guidelines and models in the long-range planning of a year of worship services.

Worshiping Communities
Milwaukee, wisconsin
2006
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Caledonia Presbyterian Church

To collaborate with three small, rural churches to create a series of twelve banners, each representing and interpreting an element of worship.  Work group members will research and study the theological meaning of each element of worship, collaborate to create a visual representation of that meaning, construct the banner and write narratives interpreting their symbolism so that the banners can be incorporated into worship.   

Worshiping Communities
Vevay, indiana
2004
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