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On the campus of Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary
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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.
To engage all generations in the singing and study of hymns in order to increase worshipers' awareness of God in daily Christian living.
To create and pilot participatory intergenerational worship resources that facilitate collaborative worship in a variety of contexts.
To explore and experiment with different formats of intergenerational worship in order to foster cross-generational community and deeper connection with God.
To strengthen and deepen worshipers’ experience of God by engaging the Psalms through prayer, study, contemplation, service and the arts.
To explore practices of worship that facilitate engagement across generations, particularly focused on breaking down barriers that keep the unaffiliated from engaging the church.
To educate the community and congregation regarding the rich heritage of the African-American worship experience in order to cultivate intergenerational unity.
To discover and implement worship practices that bring together previously age-segregated generations in five Korean-American immigrant churches.
To strengthen worshipers’ connection with God and with one another by integrating multisensory creative arts in worship
To foster intergenerational and multicultural engagement in worship in order to deepen worshipers’ connections to Scripture, one another, their community, and their history.
To facilitate intergenerational faith formation in worship by creating spaces for learning and collaboration between pastors and lay leaders in ethnically and denominationally diverse congregations.
To implement a participatory intergenerational worship service in which worshipers engage Scripture through art, music, storytelling, and guided discussion.
To cultivate young Christian leaders to mature in a life-long faith by empowering them with the skills and knowledge to lead intergenerational worship.
