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 Education/Leadership Psalms

Vancouver Urban Ministries

To train 20 worship leaders and other interested congregants through Bible studies and workshops focused especially on the Psalms and Vertical Habits, Christ-centered hospitality, Scripture reading, visual arts, creative and relevant music and collaborative planning and evaluation that will be contextualized to form participatory and communal worship services in one of the most impoverished districts in Canada.   

Worshiping Communities
Vancouver, british columbia
2013
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Psalms

All Saints Catholic Church

To create liturgy, music and dance that will convey the message of God’s radical hospitality in the Gospel and the Eucharist through a weekend parish retreat and a year-long study of the Psalms that engages the various cultures and ages of those who worship in this increasingly diverse parish.

Worshiping Communities
Hayward, california
2012
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Worshiping Communities Multicultural Psalms

Beneficent Congregational Church

To offer workshops and a focus on the Psalms that will create worship habits infused with multicultural voices expressed in music, storytelling, dance, drama and preaching in a growing and increasingly diverse congregation.

Worshiping Communities
Providence, rhode island
2012
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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational Psalms

Central Presbyterian Church

To create within the congregation a deepened understanding of the significance of singing the Psalms in worship through a workshop introducing Psalms for All Seasons, evening study groups in homes, an intergenerational visual arts group, a choral music study for all ages, a Lenten devotional Guide and a focus on the Psalms in all levels of Christian education. 

Worshiping Communities
Atlanta, georgia
2012
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Youth

First Reformed Church

To engage children of all ages in creating drama, storytelling, dance, music and visual arts centered on the Psalms that can deepen understanding of Scripture and be used in worship.

Worshiping Communities
Sully, iowa
2012
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Sacraments

Granite Springs Church

To immerse the congregation in baptismal practices, “affirmation of baptism” practices and public and private psalm-saturated liturgical practices that help believers identify themselves as part of the baptized community as seen and practiced by generations of those saturated in the psalms by offering sermons, monthly baptismal services based on psalms and informed by rituals from the global and historic Christian church, and curriculum for family devotions, small group life and children’s ministry. 

Worshiping Communities
Lincoln, california
2012
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Psalms

Abiding Savior Lutheran Church

To explore and enrich understanding of public prayer in two congregations through an extensive study of prayer with a focus on the Psalms to shape the practice of congregational prayer that extends to the personal prayer life of individuals.   

Worshiping Communities
Columbia, maryland
2011
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Visual Arts

Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA)

To partner with local congregations by offering “hands-on” experiences in the visual arts as a means for artists and congregations to study and respond to the Creation Psalms.

Worshiping Communities
Wenham, massachusetts
2011
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Psalms

First Christian Reformed Church

To study the Psalms and Vertical Habits through sermons, prayers, music, the arts, study and memorization to help the congregation and neighboring churches grow as places of hospitable community and encouragement.  

Worshiping Communities
Pella, iowa
2011
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Worshiping Communities Music Psalms

Grace Lutheran Church

To engage a growing, diverse congregation in singing the Psalms in order to promote confident, prayerful Psalm singing at home and in worship that will give them tools to understand themselves as an important voice in the story of scripture rooted in baptismal identity.

Worshiping Communities
Upland, california
2011
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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational Psalms

Greater Mount Carmel African Methodist Episcopal Church

To offer workshops on the Psalms, the Church Calendar and the intersection of worship and culture that will equip intergenerational worship planning teams to explore biblical texts and prepare liturgy, music and visuals for worship.

Worshiping Communities
Doraville, georgia
2011
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Youth

New City Fellowship

To facilitate multi-generational and multi-cultural education in worship arts with an emphasis on the Psalms that will incorporate unique cultural contributions of people in the congregation from many nations.

Worshiping Communities
St. Louis, missouri
2011
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