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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Teacher-Scholar Collaboration Liturgy

Catholic Theological Union

Anne McGowan

To explore how a collaborative, listening-based approach to Catholic liturgical development might deepen the prayer of the faithful by hosting synodal discernment events about a new Feast of Creation in Christ, training discussion leaders, and collecting and analyzing data from these events.

Teacher-Scholar
Chicago, illinois
2026
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Worshiping Communities Collaboration Education/Leadership

The Orthodox Christian Academy of Atlanta

To gather practitioners of Orthodox vigils to participate in a nine-hour vigil chanted by pan-Orthodox Byzantine choirs, share and hear research papers on Orthodox worship, and receive the relics of St. John so that these practitioners can strengthen the Orthodox tradition of vigils in their home communities.

Worshiping Communities
Charlotte, north carolina
2026
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Worshiping Communities Collaboration Cultural Engagement

Village Chapel Presbyterian Church

To expand and enrich worshipers’ understanding of scripture and the elements of Reformed worship by immersing worshipers in scripture, broadening understanding of the power of poetry and music in worship, and partnering with neighbors and scholars to engage biblical history, story, and genre.

Worshiping Communities
Charleston, west virginia
2026
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Worshiping Communities Accessibility Collaboration

Disciples Home Missions

To create an intentional worshiping community of adult disciples seasoned in liturgical leadership to gather in worship and cross-pollinate their unique worship practices, culminating in leadership at the Disciples Worship and Arts Institute that welcomes participants from across the Christian church. 

Worshiping Communities
Indianapolis, indiana
2025
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Worshiping Communities Collaboration Ecumenical

Hope for San Diego

To help congregations and individual Christian worshipers grow in their understanding and practice of lament in the context of a diverse, collaborative community by equipping them with resources to weave lament into regular worship services and into a collaborative ecumenical Ash Wednesday service. 

Worshiping Communities
San Diego, california
2025
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Worshiping Communities Collaboration Multicultural

Mennonite Church Eastern Canada

To diversify the cultural representation of the music used in Mennonite churches by developing best practices for creating, sourcing, curating, and hosting resources from a greater diversity of worship expressions. 

Worshiping Communities
Kitchener, ontario
2025
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Worshiping Communities Collaboration Justice

The Post-Evangelical Collective

To pursue justice by enabling worship artists from the United States and Palestine to create rich liturgies and songs that reflect the lived realities of Palestinian Christians. 

Worshiping Communities
Raleigh, north carolina
2025
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Teacher-Scholar Collaboration Music

Bethel Univeristy

Becki Graves

To celebrate the diversity of Christianity through exploring the contemplative, Holiness, Evangelical, social justice, charismatic, and incarnational expressions of the Church as part of the process of creating original artistic, poetic, and musical stations of the cross to share in local churches.

Teacher-Scholar
Mishawaka, indiana
2024
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Worshiping Communities Collaboration Formation

Campbell University

To engage in spiritual practices of liturgical writing, reflection, prayer, and art to collaboratively create a community prayer book that will facilitate the spiritual growth and well-being of the community through both personal and communal use.

Worshiping Communities
Buies Creek, north carolina
2024
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