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 Multicultural Music

Lipscomb University

Aaron Howard

To encourage racial reconciliation in the church by creating a multimedia resource to equip worshiping communities to develop multiracial gospel choirs.

Teacher-Scholar
Nashville, tennessee
2025
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Worshiping Communities Music

Made for PAX

To produce new worship music centered on themes of justice, contemplation, and peace through a songwriting retreat embedded within a fellowship program. 

Worshiping Communities
University Place, washington
2025
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Teacher-Scholar Formation Music

Redeemer University

Laura Benjamins

To evaluate the musical curriculum of local churches and offer practical insights for engaging congregants in musical theological formation.

Teacher-Scholar
Ancaster, ontario
2025
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Worshiping Communities Music Psalms

Saint Luke’s Anglican Church

To promote a deeper understanding and practice of psalm-singing through teaching and singing the psalms in preparation to write, record, and sign modern responsorial psalm settings. 

Worshiping Communities
Montrose, california
2025
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Worshiping Communities Multicultural Music

Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary

To deepen engagement with a culturally broad array of sacred chant traditions in order to facilitate reconciliation between Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches.  

Worshiping Communities
Yonkers, new york
2025
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Worshiping Communities Collaboration Justice

The Post-Evangelical Collective

To pursue justice by enabling worship artists from the United States and Palestine to create rich liturgies and songs that reflect the lived realities of Palestinian Christians. 

Worshiping Communities
Raleigh, north carolina
2025
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Worshiping Communities Multicultural Music

University Baptist Church

To foster worship that welcomes a diverse community by developing an inclusive-language hymnal that includes multiple languages, promotes faithful anti-racism, and reflects the concerns and style preferences of young people.  

Worshiping Communities
Minneapolis, minnesota
2025
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Teacher-Scholar Formation Music

University of Notre Dame Folk Choir

J. J. Wright

To learn how a musical dramatic proclamation of Christ’s Passion and resurrection awakens friendship, hope, and missionary imagination, and to translate lessons learned into pastoral habits that strengthen Christian worshiping communities.

Teacher-Scholar
South Bend, indiana
2025
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Worshiping Communities Multicultural Music

Yachats Baptist Church

To strengthen worship life by exploring how diverse worship traditions shape communion with God through Christ across cultures using the primary expressions of art and music.  

Worshiping Communities
Yachats, oregon
2025
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Worshiping Communities Missional Music

Advent Lutheran Church

To engage a growing population of people who identify as spiritual, but not religious, and to increase awareness of God's presence in daily life by hosting a monthly worship series that draws connections between familiar secular music and the gospel.

Worshiping Communities
New York, new york
2024
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