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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 provide education about worship, to train youth in the arts, and to empower them to participate in and lead worship
To prepare college, university, and seminary students for musician and clergy positions in churches through a worship conference
To conduct a series of workshops that focus on the role of art and its impact on worship
To train and equip student leaders to offer meaningful and theologically rich worship experiences for college students
To develop a collaborative youth worship leadership training program for junior high, high school and college students in four congregations
To guide clergy and lay leaders from five congregations through a process designed to lead to vital and authentic worship in diverse communities
