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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Bridge Street African Methodist Episcopal Church

To plan liturgies that lead congregants to bring peace, love, joy, justice and hope in the world through a collaboration between leaders and the congregation.

Worshiping Communities
Brooklyn, new york
2007
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Candler School of Theology of Emory University

To incorporate new methods to plan, lead and reflect upon meaningful worship and to adapt worship planning to the gifts and challenges of local churches by working with seminary students and recent graduates across the United States.

Worshiping Communities
Atlanta, georgia
2007
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Sardis Baptist Church

To form a worship development team that will formulate guiding statements about worship, create a worship library, host a liturgy training event for area churches focusing on creative adaptation and use of traditional liturgy, and offer a church-wide retreat on the meaning of worship.

Worshiping Communities
Charlotte, north carolina
2007
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Diocesan Worship Directors of Michigan

To provide liturgical formation for those involved in parish liturgical ministry with a concerted effort to identify and mentor young adults who will participate as liturgical leaders in the church.

Worshiping Communities
Detroit, michigan
2006
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Houghton College

To encourage full, active, conscious participation in worship by exploring a broad range of music that includes traditional and newer hymnody, fostering understanding and dialogue between those whose musical tastes are vastly different, deepening the understanding of the Trinity in worship, and matching the rhythm of worship with the liturgical calendar.

Worshiping Communities
Houghton, new york
2006
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Lake View Lutheran Church

To incorporate lay leaders of all ages in planning and leading worship around themes of justice and mercy to meet the needs of the surrounding urban community.

Worshiping Communities
Chicago, illinois
2006
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Office of Worship, Diocese of Honolulu

To gather clergy and laity from six remote Hawaiian islands to study the history and theology of liturgical worship so they may assist their worshiping community in participation in the Liturgy of the Word and Eucharist.

Worshiping Communities
Kaneohe, hawaii
2006
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Unity Christian Reformed Church

To learn about how the design of a worship space teaches, invites, inspires, and connects in order to foster versatile, multigenerational, mission-focused, biblical worship in a growing rural church.

Worshiping Communities
Prinsburg, minnesota
2006
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Commission on Ritual and Worship (CMEC)

To review and evaluate the Book of Ritual, a current denominational resource for worship, that will lead to revisions of content, language, theology and rubrics so that the resource will more accurately reflect the theological heritage of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (CMEC), promote deeper understanding of, and meaning in, rituals, and include materials that will speak to the diversity of musical and liturgical concerns of the cultures and demographics within the CMEC.

Worshiping Communities
Los Angeles, california
2005
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Diocesan Worship Directors of Michigan

To provide liturgical formation for musicians and others responsible for liturgical preparation to aid them in choosing appropriate liturgical music through participation in a Summer Camp.

Worshiping Communities
Detroit, michigan
2005
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Office of Theology and Worship, PC(USA)

To reflect on shared practices of prayer and service among pastors and church leaders and to provide for a series of on-site consultations to identify and strengthen pilot churches who are intentionally seeking to connect sacramental practices with mission and service commitments.

Worshiping Communities
Louisville, kentucky
2005
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Office of Worship and Christian Initiation, Archdiocese of Santa Fe

To train and form local liturgical leaders through a process of learning, and applying that learning by designing, implementing and evaluating a parish liturgy project and writing a theological reflection paper integrating what they learned with their story, the story of their parish communities and the story of God’s love for us.

Worshiping Communities
Albuquerque, new mexico
2005
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