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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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational Worship Leadership

Church Music Ministry of Canada

To encourage intergenerational worship in Chinese churches by empowering seniors to participate in worship leadership and by training leaders to foster inclusion of laypersons representing multiple generations. 

Worshiping Communities
Coquitlam, british columbia
2025
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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational

Ottawa Mennonite Church

To more fully engage children in corporate worship and to uncover ways to make singing, worship rituals, and community life more inclusive of all ages. 

Worshiping Communities
Ottawa, ontario
2025
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Worshiping Communities Formation Intergenerational

Pueblo Young Life

To launch an intergenerational worship formation project pairing older mentors and students to learn and model prayer, worship, and scripture reading to foster deeper and lasting spiritual disciplines and a sustainable culture of vibrant faith expression. 

Worshiping Communities
Pueblo, colorado
2025
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Worshiping Communities Formation Intergenerational

Christ Church Episcopal

To help children come to love, learn about, and interact with God through the development of a children's Sabbath program that uses music, drama, visual arts, and other disciplines to teach children liturgical concepts and enable them to participate significantly in worship services.

Worshiping Communities
Greenville, south carolina
2024
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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational

Emmanuel Evangelical Church of Grand Rapids

To address the spiritual needs of second-generation Ethiopian American children and youth in a culturally sensitive way through worship, preaching, and teaching that includes them in the life and leadership of the church.  

Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2024
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Worshiping Communities Collaboration Formation

First Baptist Church of McMinnville

To deepen connections between worshipers and to encourage a practice of recognizing the sacred in all of life by centering corporate worship and home groups on practices of shared attention, communal creation, and joyful expression.

Worshiping Communities
McMinnville, oregon
2024
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