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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Seattle Pacific University

To engage multicultural worship as a means of reconciliation through immersion experiences that expand students’ awareness of God and will inform their leadership of multicultural worship on campus and at local churches.

Worshiping Communities
Seattle, washington
2019

Belmont University (2018)

To develop a chapel worship ministry that reflects the ethnic and ecclesial diversity of the campus and community by welcoming diverse theologians and practitioners and cultivating relationships with local churches.

Worshiping Communities
Nashville, tennessee
2018

First Presbyterian Church of Holt and Lansing Church of God in Christ

To facilitate relationships between Anglo- and African-American churches by fully engaging in one another’s worship experiences and by creating liturgical art together. 

Worshiping Communities
Holt and Lansing, michigan
2018

Grace and Peace Community Church

To reflect on Scripture and culture in order to compose songs and worship expressions that are fitting to a multicultural urban congregational context.

Worshiping Communities
Chicago, illinois
2018