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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 encourage worship leaders to become more deeply rooted in historical expressions of biblical worship while engaging today’s culture through a conference designed to equip worship leaders.
To train worship leaders in liturgical dance, visual arts, drama, music, and liturgical environment through a series of educational workshops.
To commission a new cantata which will contain elements from the classical Lutheran tradition, integrate the cantata into worship and offer an educational series for the congregation.
To educate, equip, and support lay leaders in rural settings in order that the life of the church might continue to be blessed with excellent and meaningful liturgy, music, prayer, homilies, and sacramental ministry.
To enhance the worship of small member congregations in a liturgical tradition through seminars connecting experts in worship and congregational life with pastors, leaders, and members of these congregations.
To provide an intensive training for liturgical leaders of the diverse minorities of the Catholic community through the Liturgical Institute of the Southwest.
To equip lay people of rural and small town settings to preach, plan and lead worship services, and to develop coaches/mentors for further support.
To train worship leaders about the purpose of worship, preparation for worship, prayer, biblically-based praise, preaching, giving, congregational participation and holiness of life by offering a retreat and workshops for six congregations.
To conduct two three-day leadership institutes focusing on the foundation, formula, form, fervency, and festivity of Christian worship.
To train lay leaders in understanding and communicating Scripture through workshops in several churches, so that Scripture might be integrated into worship in meaningful ways.
To offer seminars and training for worship leaders in small or ethnic congregations, to plan and carry out joint worship with the participating congregations, and to create original artwork for worship.
To develop student worship leaders, increase understanding of worship among the membership, and enrich the visual dimension of worship through installations for the seasons of the church year.
