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 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 Intergenerational

Christ Church Nashville

To ground the congregation in scripture by creating and integrating theologically rich songs, testimonies, and other resources into worship services, supported by a new worship arts studio. 

Worshiping Communities
Nashville, tennessee
2025
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Worshiping Communities Music Visual Arts

connect.faith

To connect with God and others in a distracted world by practicing stillness, listening to each other’s stories, and collaboratively creating music, visual art, and literary pieces that showcase God’s work in the life of the community. 

Worshiping Communities
Pleasantville, new york
2025
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Formation

Free Pentecostal Church of God / Eglise de Dieu de La Pentecote Libre

To promote deeper spiritual formation, unity, and engagement within the worshiping community by providing training for emerging worship leaders, musicians, and preachers. 

Worshiping Communities
Dorchester, massachusetts
2025
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Worshiping Communities Formation Music

Iskali

To deepen liturgical formation and engagement among young adult Latinos by involving them in forming, training, and accompanying a dedicated choir to lead sacred music at Iskali retreats and beyond. 

Worshiping Communities
Maywood, illinois
2025
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Music

Junius B. Dotson Institute for Music & Worship in the Black Church & Beyond

To sustain the rich legacy of Africana worship in diverse US contexts and to revitalize these prophetic communities through a leadership training program. 

Worshiping Communities
Evanston, illinois
2025
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