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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Saint Peter A.M.E. Zion Church

To promote genuine grace-filled hospitality in worship through a more racially, culturally, and intergenerationally sensitive worship experience that is sustained and perpetuated through a message of love, adaptability, and social engagement during the worship experience.

Worshiping Communities
Tuscaloosa, alabama
2022
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Multicultural

Seventh Day Baptist General Conference

To promote unity and diversity in local Seventh Day Baptist congregations by gathering worship leaders to discern the transcultural, contextual, cross-cultural, and counter-culture nature of worship as they worship together in diverse ways.

Worshiping Communities
Janesville, wisconsin
2022
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University Congregational United Church of Christ (2022)

To deeply integrate worship and other congregational activities so that the church’s engagement of cross-cultural relationships, education, justice, and collaboration weaves seamlessly with worship.

Worshiping Communities
Seattle, washington
2022
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Clinton College

To engage in biblical and theological reflection, practical training, and collaboration to initiate chapel worship that promotes individual and collective formation of students around the core values of the institution.

Worshiping Communities
Rock Hill, south carolina
2021
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Teacher-Scholar Education/Leadership Worship Practices

Duke University Divinity School

John Ruth

To survey the present state of college and seminary instruction on the theology, history, and practice of contemporary praise and worship, and to engage scholars in conversation around recent and emerging scholarship on contemporary worship in order to create a podcast series and a curriculum guide for worship educators and church practitioners.

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Durham, north carolina
2021
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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
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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
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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
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Visual Arts

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
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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.

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Lake Forest Park, washington
2021
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