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 Liturgy Psalms

Princeton Christian Reformed Church

To engage the congregation in an inclusive, intergenerational, hospitable process of learning about the Church Year and how the Psalms and Vertical Habits can provide a vocabulary for worship that will deepen understanding and participation in worship.

Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2011
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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational Psalms

14th Street Christian Reformed Church

To engage the congregation in a study of the Psalms and Vertical Habits as a framework for worship throughout the liturgical year and to create visual arts and language that will remind the congregation that worship is a dialogue with God that can be carried into their daily lives.

Worshiping Communities
Holland, michigan
2010
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Youth

Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center - Department of Pastoral Care

To create a common language for worship among staff and clients through lament, Psalms and the Vertical Habits at an adolescent residential psychiatric treatment facility that will lead to corporate and personal worship that promotes spiritual healing.

Worshiping Communities
Cincinnati, ohio
2010
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Psalms

First AME Bethel Church

To encourage personal and public prayer practices in worshipers of all ages by creating a language for prayer through Lectio divina, praying the Psalms, and media that includes Twitter and Facebook.

Worshiping Communities
New York, new york
2010
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Psalms

Grace Brethren Church

To express the broad range of worship expressions that appear in the Bible through workshops to create liturgies, prayers, responsive readings, music, poems and art with a focus on the Psalms and Revelation.

Worshiping Communities
Long Beach, california
2010
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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational Psalms

Jeff Street Baptist Community at Liberty

To develop a focus each month on topics such as the call to worship, doxology, and the practice of listening that will lead the congregation to understand worship as something that acts upon and forms us to be the community that God calls us to be.

Worshiping Communities
Louisville, kentucky
2010
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Youth

Mustard Seed School

To explore with young children how artistic response gives language to their understanding of God through mentoring and communication with staff and parents to more deeply engage them in worship in school and in their congregations.

Worshiping Communities
Hoboken, new jersey
2010
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Youth

New City Church

To explore the Psalms with children, youth and families through art, music and memorizing Scripture to shape a posture of hope and give words to express doubts, questions and fears.

Worshiping Communities
Jersey City, new jersey
2010
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Psalms

Redeemer University College

To create on-campus initiatives that will connect academic life with campus worship by creating a university-wide theme of prayerfulness and to form a Spiritual Formation cohort of professors to intentionally link campus worship practices with the classroom, introduce spiritual practices in the classroom and explore the relationship between spiritual practice and pedagogy.

Worshiping Communities
Ancaster, ontario
2010
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Psalms

Reformation Worship Association

To equip five congregations in different regions and settings to use liturgies based on those used during the Protestant Reformation and to demonstrate how they may be used in congregational life today.

Worshiping Communities
Powder Springs, georgia
2010
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Psalms

Robbinsdale United Church of Christ

To immerse the congregation in activities that will encourage worshipers to pray and reflect on the effects of prayer through the Psalms, prayers for healing, drumming circles, embodied prayer and to use the written prayers of the community in worship.

Worshiping Communities
Robbinsdale, minnesota
2010
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Psalms

Vintage21 Church

To study liturgy past and present that will lead to more deliberate worship planning resulting in a new understanding of God's character, nature and work in a young and growing congregation which meets in two locations.

Worshiping Communities
Raleigh, north carolina
2010
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