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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Worshiping Communities Drama/Dance Liturgy

Humble Walk Lutheran Church

To promote the role of visual and performing arts in the liturgy as a means of meeting God in worship, by providing opportunities for artists to lead the congregation.

Worshiping Communities
St Paul, minnesota
2019
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Visual Arts

Kanata United Church

To help worshipers live into the salvation story in the liturgical year by participating in collaborative art-making that will be incorporated into corporate worship.

Worshiping Communities
Ottawa, ontario
2019
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy

Monument of Faith Church

To explore the history of liturgical practices in the church's worship in order to be formed by those practices and to authentically integrate them into the church's worship life.

Worshiping Communities
Durham, north carolina
2019
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Music

Sidebar Stories

To strengthen the role of testimony in worship by helping worshipers tell their stories through visual art, original song, and written narrative.

Worshiping Communities
Mount Holly, new jersey
2019
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Visual Arts

St. Ambrose Anglican Church

To teach worshipers to engage art as an act of worship and to engage in Christian art-making, in order to better participate in the liturgy with body, mind, and soul.

Worshiping Communities
Seattle, washington
2019
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Music

St. Giles Kingsway Presbyterian Church

To create a robust sending rite that empowers and commissions worshipers to engage God’s work in the world in their daily lives.

Worshiping Communities
Toronto, ontario
2019
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Music

Warwick United Church of Christ

To fully integrate the arts in the worship life of the church through collaboration among liturgists, musicians, and visual artists, in order to express and embody the attributes of God and the identity of worshipers’ as God’s beloved people.

Worshiping Communities
Newport News, virginia
2019
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Music

Brentwood Presbyterian Church

To deepen worshipers’ understanding of the triune God by engaging in and reflecting on the dynamism of jazz music in Christian liturgy.

Worshiping Communities
Burnaby, british columbia
2018
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Worshiping Communities Accessibility Liturgy

First Baptist Church of McMinnville (2018)

To learn about inclusive worship in order to craft creative liturgies that allow for the full, conscious, active participation of all members of the community.

Worshiping Communities
McMinnville, oregon
2018
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy

Grace Baptist Church

To cultivate an awareness of God’s glory by establishing shared rhythms and spaces to connect daily life and corporate worship.

Worshiping Communities
Richmond, virginia
2018
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