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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St. Giles Kingsway Presbyterian Church

To create a robust sending rite that empowers and commissions worshipers to engage God’s work in the world in their daily lives.

Worshiping Communities
Toronto, ontario
2019

St. Philothea Greek Orthodox Church

To increase worshipers’ experience of the beauty of God by equipping churches with tools and with skilled leaders that will continue the rich tradition of chant, iconography, woodworking, and textiles in Orthodox worship.

Worshiping Communities
Watkinsville, georgia
2019

Union Congregational United Church of Christ

To deepen worshipers’ love of God and neighbor through disciplined improvisations of jazz in worship.

Worshiping Communities
Green Bay, wisconsin
2019

Warwick United Church of Christ

To fully integrate the arts in the worship life of the church through collaboration among liturgists, musicians, and visual artists, in order to express and embody the attributes of God and the identity of worshipers’ as God’s beloved people.

Worshiping Communities
Newport News, virginia
2019

Brentwood Presbyterian Church

To deepen worshipers’ understanding of the triune God by engaging in and reflecting on the dynamism of jazz music in Christian liturgy.

Worshiping Communities
Burnaby, british columbia
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

Pillar Church

To enrich worship by collaboratively creating artistic liturgical resources inspired by the book of Revelation in order to promote a rich engagement with Scripture. 

Worshiping Communities
Holland, michigan
2018

Seabury Resources for Aging

To implement a participatory intergenerational worship service in which worshipers engage Scripture through art, music, storytelling, and guided discussion.

Worshiping Communities
Washington, district of columbia
2018