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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 study ways to renovate the sanctuary of a small urban church to meet the current needs through the involvement of musicians, artists, architecture students, a professional architect, and the church's congregation as well as permit architecture students to explore options for area churches with similar needs
To help churches develop stimulating and meaningful worship environments and sacred spaces for their congregations during a one-day workshop
