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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Mount Olive Lutheran Church

To increase worshipers' awareness and experience of God's action in history and in the world by exploring the distinct gifts of the liturgical seasons of the Christian Year.

Worshiping Communities
Rochester, minnesota
2021

New Hope Covenant Church

To create new expressions of worship that allow for freedom in experiencing God, by decolonizing inherited worship practices and experimenting with forms of worship that are free from patriarchal and white supremacist structures.

Worshiping Communities
Oakland, california
2021

Prairie City Christian Reformed Church

To reflect God's creativity in worship that is deeply scriptural and intentionally collaborative and hospitable and that continues from Sunday morning into the fabric of everyday life.

Worshiping Communities
Prairie City, iowa
2021

Red Mountain Community Church

To explore artistry in the Bible and in Christian tradition in order to help worshipers experience art as worship and to give them opportunities to create visual art that invites worshipers into the Biblical story.

Worshiping Communities
Mesa, arizona
2021

Seattle Dream Church

To foster connection among the members of a multi-site church by participating together in common at-home worship practices, a sermon series delivered by pastors from throughout the multi-site church, and Benedictine prayer practices.

Worshiping Communities
Lake Forest Park, washington
2021


Christ Church Maplewood

To reimagine worship as an act of justice by decolonizing the congregation's worship practices to ensure that each is engaged in a culturally appropriate way.

Worshiping Communities
Maplewood, missouri
2020

Comunidad Cristiana de Grand Rapids

To integrate new communal practices into worship in order to more deeply connect worshipers to the body of Christ and to welcome others into such a community.

Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2020