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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Lutheran Music Program

To extend the experience of the summer music and faith program to the greater community by helping students form yearlong mentorships with pastors or other worship leaders in their home congregations so that the youth will become fully integrated into the worship life of their congregation.

Worshiping Communities
Minneapolis, minnesota
2006
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Lutheran Music Program (2006)

To extend the experience of the summer music and faith program to the greater community by helping students form yearlong mentorships with pastors or other worship leaders in their home congregations so that the youth will become fully integrated into the worship life of their congregation.

Worshiping Communities
Minneapolis, minnesota
2006
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The Outdoor Church of Cambridge

To offer worship services and discussion of scripture led by clergy, congregation members and seminary students for homeless men and women, many of whom have substance abuse problems or are chronically mentally ill.

Worshiping Communities
Lexington, massachusetts
2006
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First Christian Reformed Church

To equip area church choirs to lead worship spiritually and musically within their respective churches through a year-long process that will include a weekend of workshops, rehearsals, and worship.

Worshiping Communities
Salt Lake City, utah
2005
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LOGOS System Associates

To explore resource materials and design a process for using and sharing them that will engage all ages in understanding parts of a worship service and in integrating their renewed appreciation of worship into congregational life.

Worshiping Communities
Pittsburgh, pennsylvania
2005
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Montreat Presbyterian Church

To offer workshops in North Carolina and Texas to address processes and principles of developing and leading multisensory worship.

Worshiping Communities
Montreat, north carolina
2005
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Amazing Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church

To collaborate with four urban multicultural congregations to train and nurture children to lead worship through a youth choir.

Worshiping Communities
Baltimore, maryland
2004
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Arts Ministry Inc

To equip, encourage and enable Christian composers and leaders/pastors within a broader Christian context of Biblical theology and mission by offering the Forging Links Conference, and to encourage integration of new material through workshops and communication with worship and arts leaders.

Worshiping Communities
Chapel Hill, north carolina
2004
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Bethlehem Lutheran Church

To offer monthly worship services which utilize Light into the World: Hope for a New Day, a bluegrass setting of the Lutheran liturgy with all original music by a young composer, Kent Gustavson, to train volunteer musicians and to lead workshops both locally and nationally to share what they have learned.  

Worshiping Communities
Longmont, colorado
2004
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Music

Diocesan Worship Directors of Michigan (2004)

To provide liturgical formation to musicians and others responsible for liturgy through a Summer Camp experience.

Worshiping Communities
Saginaw, michigan
2004
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House of Mercy in Lowertown

To create a musical setting of the Eucharistic service which reflects the theological and musical aesthetic of the faith community, and to offer educational workshops to introduce the history and practice of liturgical singing.  

Worshiping Communities
St. Paul, minnesota
2004
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Lower Susquehanna Synod, ELCA

To enhance the leadership of musicians in smaller congregations by offering training in musical, pastoral and leadership skills through the Leadership Program for Musicians Serving Small Congregations (LPM). 

Worshiping Communities
Harrisburg, pennsylvania
2004
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