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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Community Congregational United Church of Christ

To equip laypersons to lead and participate in worship by helping them integrate their own experiences of God’s presence with the history, creeds, and practices of African-American churches.

Worshiping Communities
Montgomery, alabama
2018

Concordia Seminary

To draw adults into a life of Christian discipleship by studying four congregations with robust catechumenate programs in order to facilitate formational practices and patterns in the worship of other congregations.

Worshiping Communities
St. Louis, missouri
2018


National Association of the Church of God

To facilitate a yearlong emphasis on worship and the arts in local congregations by hosting a series of national meetings that train local leaders in the theology and practice of formational liturgy.

Worshiping Communities
West Middlesex, pennsylvania
2018

Rebirth Healing and Deliverance Ministries

To strengthen the community’s connection with God and with one another by deepening worshipers' practices of communal intercessory prayer.

Worshiping Communities
Bridgeport, connecticut
2018