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 Accessibility Drama/Dance

Young Life Capernaum

To use Vertical Habits to disciple young adults with developmental disabilities, and to help churches break down barriers to the full, conscious, active participation of those young adults in worship.

Worshiping Communities
Libertyville, illinois
2019
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Worshiping Communities Music Psalms

St. Monica Catholic Community (2018)

To shape the language, prayer, and song of a worshiping community by composing new songs based on a deepened engagement with the Psalms, informed by their use in various faith traditions.

Worshiping Communities
Santa Monica, california
2018
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Worshiping Communities Architecture/Space Music

Glen Ellyn Evangelical Covenant

To strengthen and encourage intergenerational worship through the church year and creative excellence in all aspects of worship including music, visual arts, sacred space design, spoken and written proclamation, prayer, and liturgy—all guided by the psalms. 

Worshiping Communities
Glen Ellyn, illinois
2014
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Worshiping Communities Multicultural Psalms

City Hope Ministries

To offer a year-long guided exploration of the book of Psalms through workshops in dance, public reading of Scripture, theater, movement, painting, sculpture, photography and memorization that will bridge racial, generational and socio-economic obstacles in a diverse and multiethnic community. 

Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2013
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Worshiping Communities Multicultural Psalms

Philadelphia Montgomery Christian Academy

To dwell in the Psalms as the yearly chapel theme that will include book studies, guest speakers and a Psalmfest with the expectation that a new understanding of the breadth and depth of the Psalms will result in greater and fuller worship participation using drama, music and visual arts in an ethnically and denominationally diverse K-12 school.

Worshiping Communities
Erdenheim, pennsylvania
2013
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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational Psalms

Reformed Church of Highland Park

To offer three intergenerational “Psalm Plunges” that will provide space to look at the Psalms intentionally through lectures, worship and working together on songs, art projects, new lyrics for old hymns, liturgical elements, prayers, sentences, poems and other creativity inspired by the Psalms to help the congregation become more aware of how and why we worship as we do. 

Worshiping Communities
Highland Park, new jersey
2013
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