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.

Liturgy
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Bethany Lutheran Church

To offer weekly courses which will include examples of liturgical forms and explanations of the meaning and relevance of those forms to daily life int he 21st century, and to incorporate this information through visits with people and through mentoring seminary students.

Worshiping Communities
Fort Wayne , indiana
2002

Big Rapids Deanery of the Grand Rapids Diocese

To conduct a series of 6 sessions for reading, study, and reflection on the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy and the influence it has on liturgy and the people who gather for worship.

Worshiping Communities
Reed City, michigan
2002

Office of Worship and Christian Initiation

To establish The Liturgical Institute of the southwest, a certification program for training liturgical leaders in the planning and implementation of sound pastoral liturgy.

Worshiping Communities
Albuquerque, new mexico
2002

St. Gregory the Great Parish

To develop excellence in liturgy by training lay worship leaders, including cantors, lectors, adult and children's choirs, by providing days of retreat and reflection, and by educating liturgy and music personnel to use use music software.

Worshiping Communities
Milwaukee, wisconsin
2002

The Good Shepherd Christian Reformed Church

To develop comprehensive training in music and liturgical planning for musicians, worship teams and congregations in Hispanic churches.

Worshiping Communities
Prospect Park, new jersey
2002

Bethel-Bethany UCC

To encourage the use and appreciation of multicultural music and liturgy in the worship services of four Lutheran and Reformed congregations located in a multicultural neighborhood through the development of a congregational/ecumenical model for worship renewal.

Worshiping Communities
Milwaukee, wisconsin
2001

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

To educate a parish and other diocesan congregations about worship rituals and the liturgical life of their communities during a cathedral renovation project

Worshiping Communities
Kansas City, missouri
2001

Corpus Christi Church

To collaborate with neighboring religious institutions to form an increased awareness of the relationship between private spiritually and public discipleship through a Lenten Vesper Series

Worshiping Communities
New York, new york
2001

Eighth St. Mennonite Church

To provide vision for and promote engagement in ecumenical worship through a series of planned worship services and other events.

Worshiping Communities
Goshen, indiana
2001

Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions (2001)

To offer a Liturgy Summer Camp to provide a basic understanding of liturgy to lay persons in Michigan and Ohio

Worshiping Communities
Toledo, ohio
2001

Knox Presbyterian Church (2001)

A liturgy training program for lay people in six rural/small town Presbyterian congregations in southwestern Ontario

Worshiping Communities
Mitchell, ontario
2001