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 AME Bethel Church

To encourage personal and public prayer practices in worshipers of all ages by creating a language for prayer through Lectio divina, praying the Psalms, and media that includes Twitter and Facebook.

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New York, new york
2010
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Grace Brethren Church

To express the broad range of worship expressions that appear in the Bible through workshops to create liturgies, prayers, responsive readings, music, poems and art with a focus on the Psalms and Revelation.

Worshiping Communities
Long Beach, california
2010
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Grace Presbyterian Church of Weed

To engage in a process of learning and reflection on the use of music drama and art that will create intergenerational worship services for the congregation and other churches in the community who have been invited to learn with them.

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Weed, california
2010
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Ionia Celebration Fellowship Prison Congregation

To develop cell groups that include members of the prison congregation, partner churches and ex-offenders which will develop communion services to be used in the prison and community congregations.

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Grand Rapids, michigan
2010
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La Capilla del Barrio

to more deeply live into their mission statement Centered in Christ, Called to the Core City, and committed to being a multicultural community reconciled to each other through Christ

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Chicago, illinois
2010
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Lancaster Theological Seminary

To provide training for worship leaders and congregations for the liturgical seasons of the Christian year through a series of events that will include traditional, contemporary, ecumenical, and global worship resources.

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Lancaster, pennsylvania
2010
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Northwest Baptist Church

To offer a series of intergenerational workshops, book studies and conversations with other churches that will help implement multisensory worship services interwoven with new sermon-based small groups to help the congregation better understand, retain, and apply God's truth to their lives.

Worshiping Communities
Wauwatosa, wisconsin
2010
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Redeemer University College

To create on-campus initiatives that will connect academic life with campus worship by creating a university-wide theme of prayerfulness and to form a Spiritual Formation cohort of professors to intentionally link campus worship practices with the classroom, introduce spiritual practices in the classroom and explore the relationship between spiritual practice and pedagogy.

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Ancaster, ontario
2010
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Reformation Worship Association

To equip five congregations in different regions and settings to use liturgies based on those used during the Protestant Reformation and to demonstrate how they may be used in congregational life today.

Worshiping Communities
Powder Springs, georgia
2010
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Robbinsdale United Church of Christ

To immerse the congregation in activities that will encourage worshipers to pray and reflect on the effects of prayer through the Psalms, prayers for healing, drumming circles, embodied prayer and to use the written prayers of the community in worship.

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Robbinsdale, minnesota
2010
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Trinity Presbyterian Church

To engage in a study of the relationship of liturgy, music, and space that will encourage worshipers to consider the biblical and theological rationale behind elements of worship and worship space and create a more God-honoring and formative worship environment in a culturally and generationally diverse congregation.

Worshiping Communities
Charlottesville, virginia
2010
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United Theological Seminary

To offer workshops and learning opportunities for local congregations who seek to explore insights and practices such as contemplative prayer, meditation, simplicity and silence (re)discovered by the emerging church movement.

Worshiping Communities
Dayton, ohio
2010
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