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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Creekside Church

To encourage Gen Alpha worshipers as active co-creators and leaders by developing an Innovation Leadership Lab that will strengthen participants’ theological foundations, worship skills, and spiritual practices while deepening intergenerational connections and trust through shared worship experiences.

Worshiping Communities
Clarksburg, maryland
2026
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Preaching

Just For U Ministries, Inc.

To strengthen preaching and equip Black women to proclaim the word with clarity, courage, and sustainability through cohorts that feature sermon labs, mentored feedback, testimony-shaped proclamation, and guided practices of listening and reflection.

Worshiping Communities
Chicago, illinois
2026
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Kingdom Worship Center

To develop more vital, participatory, and formational worship practices by deepening theological understanding of worship, strengthening practices of intercessory prayer, and equipping a multigenerational community to engage in creative expressions of public worship practices.

Worshiping Communities
Towson, maryland
2026
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Mosaic Mennonite Conference

To equip emerging preachers to proclaim the gospel in ways that are contextually relevant, spiritually sustaining, and oriented toward lived discipleship through cohort-based skill building, theological grounding, and peer learning.

Worshiping Communities
Lansdale, pennsylvania
2026
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Trauma/Mental Health

Most Excellent Way Learning Life Center

To foster spiritual healing and renewed engagement in public worship for individuals affected by trauma, reentry, and community disconnection, by integrating theological reflection, leadership development, and healing-centered participatory worship practices.

Worshiping Communities
Bayonne, new jersey
2026
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Presbytery of Southern Kansas

To equip lay leaders and strengthen the worship ministries of small rural churches by developing resources and offering education and encouragement to support worship planning and leading, preaching, and outreach efforts.

Worshiping Communities
Kingman, kansas
2026
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Worship Practices

Tabernacle of Life Christian Church

To foster a deeper understanding of and practice of prayer within the congregation by training leaders and developing new prayer practices for personal and communal worship that are rooted in consistent, transformational, mission-centered prayer.

Worshiping Communities
St. Louis, missouri
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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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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