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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Teacher-Scholar Missional

Ambrose University

Arch Chee Keen Wong

To identify worship practices that nourish the liturgical life of church plants in a specifically Canadian urban context by conducting a comparative qualitative analysis of how missiology shapes the philosophy and practice of worship in three congregations.

Teacher-Scholar
Calgary, alberta
2026
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Worshiping Communities Hospitality Missional

Central Presbyterian Church

To bring congregation and community neighbors together for a deeper and embodied experience of God’s hospitality and the healing power of genuine human connection across ages, backgrounds, and beliefs through intergenerational gatherings following worship.

Worshiping Communities
Austin, texas
2026
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Worshiping Communities Missional

Jacksonville Campus Ministry

To discover worship practices that foster sustained participation and spiritual depth for engaging young adults who are deconstructing or  spiritually curious by exploring contemplation, prayer, and Eucharist in gatherings codesigned and evaluated by students.

Worshiping Communities
Jacksonville, florida
2026
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Teacher-Scholar Missional

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

Edwin Chr. van Driel

To study the possibility of offering services of Choral Evensong as a missional outreach for churches in post-Christian contexts in the United States based on ethnographic and appreciative inquiry research regarding comparable initiatives in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Teacher-Scholar
Pittsburgh, pennsylvania
2026
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Worshiping Communities Formation Missional

The Presbyterian College

To integrate worship with academic studies and vocational formation by centering students in worship that roots them in God and orients them to love others and the world as a foundation for integrating faith and vocation.

Worshiping Communities
Montreal, quebec
2026
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Worshiping Communities Missional Music

Charisma Christian Church

To cultivate a spiritually healthy, emotionally resilient, and missionally engaged congregation by forming disciples through contextual preaching, participatory music, liturgical art, and personal devotion practices. 

Worshiping Communities
Rio Grande, puerto rico
2025
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Worshiping Communities Formation Justice

First Congregational United Church of Christ, Boulder

To nurture a richer rhythm of weekly worship, seasonal gatherings, special events, and creative collaborations, all rooted in scripture’s counter-cultural narratives, so that worshipers may more fully embody the transforming power of the gospel. 

Worshiping Communities
Boulder, colorado
2025
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Missional

First Presbyterian Church

To connect faith to action through cycles of education and reflection, liturgical creativity, and discipleship practices that aim to address homelessness and hunger. 

Worshiping Communities
Clarksville, tennessee
2025
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Missional

Korean Grace Church in Orlando

To form worshipers whose daily life flows into worship and whose worship flows back into daily life by training participants in liturgy, lay preaching, and table hospitality. 

Worshiping Communities
Orlando, florida
2025
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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational Missional

Laguna Beach United Methodist Church

To create multisensory intergenerational worship experiences through retreats, worship services, community events, and worship labs that promote deeper spiritual connection and extend worship beyond the church walls. 

Worshiping Communities
Laguna Beach, california
2025
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Worshiping Communities Missional Visual Arts

Resurrection Philadelphia

To foster robust and nuanced dialogue inside and outside the church, to cultivate generous and durable habits of patience and mercy, and to help recover concern for neighbors through artist commissions, group study, writing, conversation, hospitality, and friendships related to the topic of shalom.  

Worshiping Communities
Philadelphia, pennsylvania
2025
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