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.
Bethlehem Lutheran Church (2002)
To conduct three leadership retreats for developing worship resources for both adults and children that will refelct the diversity of cultures in an inner city congregation.
Black Mountain Presbyterian Church
To engage the entire congregation, through a retread and study, in a discussion of Reformed worship with the intent of constructing new forms of worship which will be meaningful and attractive to the entire congregation, especially to young families.
Community of Reconciliation
To renew worship through a process of study, implementing new worship formats, evaluation and sharing with other similar congregations which are multi-cultural, interracial, and intergenerational.
Hopwood Memorial Christian Church
To introduce a broad spectrum of worship experiences including a variety of music styles, Word-centered worship forms, special services, interracial worship and a worship retreat for a congregation which includes many college and seminary students.
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
To explore, in conjunction with the Commission on Small Churches in the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia, methods where small congregations can design excellent intergenerational worship practices
All Nations Christian Reformed Church (2000)
To develop and publish a worship resource manual for intergenerational worship services that more fully integrate youth into the worship life of congregations