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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Serenity the Prince of Peace Church of God In Christ

To create a consortium of young adults who will be trained and mentored to design and execute a monthly ecumenical, multicultural, and multigenerational worship gathering.

Worshiping Communities
Indianapolis, indiana
2020
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St. Elizabeth Episcopal Church

To initiate a contemplative worship service that uses participatory and sensually rich gestures, silence, and Celtic music in order to cultivate worshipers’ imagination of God. 

Worshiping Communities
Dahlonega, georgia
2020
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The Road Church

To explore ways the worshiping community’s values can be embodied in communal worship practices that shape worshipers' engagement with God, one another, and God’s world.

Worshiping Communities
Calgary, alberta
2020
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Trinity United Methodist Church

To train worshipers in improvisational theater techniques in order to create a variety of worship experiences that facilitate intergenerational participation in worship. 

Worshiping Communities
Milford, ohio
2020
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Wake Forest Baptist Church (WFBC)

To pilot an interactive worship experience that fosters practices of justice, stewardship, and vocational exploration, and facilitates personal and communal encountering of God. 

Worshiping Communities
Winston-Salem, north carolina
2020
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Western Theological Seminary

Ronald Rienstra

To write a book comprised of brief essays that explore the deep patterns in worship as well as in worship's constituent parts (ordo, scripture, sermon, song, prayer, action).

Teacher-Scholar
Grand Rapids, michigan
2020
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First Baptist Church Ashland

To foster intergenerational and interracial discipleship by writing daily liturgies together that connect with the weekly liturgies of corporate worship.

Worshiping Communities
Ashland, virginia
2019
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Worshiping Communities Accessibility Liturgy

Freedom Outreach International: Ministry to the Military

To develop intentional worship models for military congregations that remove barriers to those who are experiencing PTSD and to facilitate connection through prayer.

Worshiping Communities
Cleveland, tennessee
2019
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