1855 Knollcrest Circle SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 USA
On the campus of Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary
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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 increase cultural awareness and communication among diverse community groups through a collaborative focus of local churches on diversity, hospitality, liturgical space, drama, music, and dance.
To create resources for those unable to worship with the gathered Sunday congregation through a collaborative study of church history, ecclesiology, and liturgy.
To connect weekly worship with daily living by encouraging personal and family Bible study and discussion that will be further explored through the Sunday sermon, drama, and congregational discussions.
To study scripture, examine traditions steeped in liturgical mystery and awe, create visual arts, and plan Lenten services of contemplation with lay leadership.
To design contemporary worship services that are planned collaboratively, are biblically based, proclaim the gospel through Word and Sacrament, and send people out to share God's grace.
To foster hospitality by creating multi-cultural and intergenerational worship planning and leadership through a collaborative study of worship, tradition, and culture.
To share the richness of the experience, history, and spirituality of the African American Catholic tradition with the local community through worship services and workshops.
To study liturgy, music, and art as an interdenominational group of local pastors and lay leaders and to plan a combined worship service.
To train clergy and music staff in musical repertoire, theology of worship, and worship planning through a collaboration with eighteen local congregations.
To develop resources with the Christian Navajo community that reflect the contextual use of the Psalms in the liturgy, drama, music and art of worship in Native American culture.
To deepen hospitality and community in worship through congregational workshops and training that will encourage intergenerational participation and leadership.
To increase congregational participation and knowledge of worship through the incorporation of the arts and the development of a worship planning team.
