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 Bilingual Worship Leadership

New Wine Church RGV

To raise up lay worship leaders through a training program that prioritizes character formation and incorporates musical instruction, reflection on bilingual liturgical design, and development of community worship events.

Worshiping Communities
La Feria, texas
2026
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Worshiping Communities Bilingual Formation

The Church on the Way

To facilitate deeper participation in worship by creating bilingual worship music rooted in scripture and by training worshipers to foster formation and participation through worship that will impact the church and the broader community.

Worshiping Communities
Van Nuys, california
2026
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Worshiping Communities Bilingual Formation

Woodlawn Church

To reimagine weekly worship rehearsals as intentional spaces of spiritual formation, theological reflection, and multicultural leadership development, complemented by quarterly gatherings for deeper theological study, together to cultivate both current and emerging worship leaders who are spiritually grounded and equipped to lead unified bilingual worship.

Worshiping Communities
Columbia, mississippi
2026
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Worshiping Communities Bilingual Education/Leadership

California Prestige University (formerly Presbyterian Theological Seminary in America)

To unite existing Korean-, English-, and Chinese-speaking Christian communities in worship by training leaders for new multilingual chapel services featuring rotating language leadership and real-time translation.

Worshiping Communities
Santa Fe Springs, california
2025
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Worshiping Communities Bilingual Preaching

Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church

To expand a collaborative preaching model that transforms the traditional sermon into a shared act of interpretation through a combination of coaching, consulting, research, peer learning, and Spanish-language accessibility. 

Worshiping Communities
San Francisco, california
2025
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Worshiping Communities Bilingual

Souls Harbor United Pentecostal Church 

To foster Spanish/English bilingual worship and preaching through leadership training, outreach practices, and translation technology.  

Worshiping Communities
Calhoun, louisiana
2025
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Worshiping Communities Bilingual Formation

ARISE Ministries

To promote healthy spiritual formation for Korean American youth and young adults in New England through resource development, worship retreats, and spiritual formation discipleship cohorts.

Worshiping Communities
Malden, massachusetts
2024
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Worshiping Communities Bilingual Music

St. Rose and St. John Churches

To translate and publish a hymnal of bilingual Kreyol-English songs for use by new Haitian-Americans and neighboring church communities as a way to welcome and embrace one another through congregational song.

Worshiping Communities
Lima, ohio
2024
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Worshiping Communities Bilingual Liturgy

Tapestry

To create bilingual (Spanish/English) liturgies and music from and for Latino people, especially in the Lutheran tradition, that respect and honor the Latino cultures present in the congregation.

Worshiping Communities
Richfield, minnesota
2024
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