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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Junius B. Dotson Institute for Music & Worship in the Black Church & Beyond

To sustain the rich legacy of Africana worship in diverse US contexts and to revitalize these prophetic communities through a leadership training program. 

Worshiping Communities
Evanston, illinois
2025
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Presbiterio del Noroeste

 To equip lay and ordained preachers with practical tools and theological understanding to empower them to be innovative, inclusive, creative, confident, and spiritually attuned worship leaders and pastors. 

Worshiping Communities
Aguadilla, puerto rico
2025
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Multicultural

Silver Spring Christian Reformed Church

To engage multilingual lay preachers from several congregations in a yearlong preaching workshop to strengthen their pastoral skills, expand kingdom impact in their communities, and cultivate sustainable leadership across diverse congregations. 

Worshiping Communities
Silver Spring, maryland
2025
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Universidad Teologica del Caribe, Inc.

To strengthen worship leadership by implementing a leadership development project consisting of workshops, mentoring, and worship celebrations. 

Worshiping Communities
Saint Just, puerto rico
2025
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Alamance Presbyterian Church

To cultivate wonder and gratitude for God and creation, to deeply engage lay people in scriptural interpretation, and to empower new leaders within the church by learning and contemplating worship and growing in creative expressions of worship.

Worshiping Communities
Greensboro, north carolina
2024
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