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 Music Psalms

New Mount Hermon Missionary Baptist Church

To deepen musical leadership through the formation of a committee of choir directors and musicians from local churches that focuses on congregational singing.

Worshiping Communities
Detroit, michigan
2007
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Psalms

Rehoboth Christian Reformed Church

To develop resources with the Christian Navajo community that reflect the contextual use of the Psalms in the liturgy, drama, music and art of worship in Native American culture.

Worshiping Communities
Rehoboth, new mexico
2007
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Worshiping Communities Music Psalms

Southeastern Iowa Synod

To begin a training program for musicians and clergy of small congregations that offers classes in the theological and liturgical foundations of worship and the development of musical skills.

Worshiping Communities
Iowa City, iowa
2007
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Psalms

Valley Baptist Ministers Conference

To discuss the theological foundations of worship renewal and strategies for forming congregations around them as a peer learning group of local Baptist ministers and church leaders.

Worshiping Communities
Cincinnati, ohio
2007
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Psalms

Granite Springs Church

To saturate their new congregation with a rhythm of Bible memorization that supports spiritual formation and an integration of scripture into every aspect of the worship service with attention to multigenerational participation.

Worshiping Communities
Lincoln, california
2006
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Vertical Habits/Psalms

African Church

To introduce African Church to Western liturgical concepts and to introduce Western religious communities to the African concept of community worship and daily life through a five week series that focuses on five basic elements of worship, including planning and creating music, dance, sermons, testimonies, dramas, oral story telling, and artwork by various ages in the congregation that echo African cultural traditions, and also through intercessory prayer for Africa, the national leadership of Africa, victims of HIV-AIDS, the economic development of Africa, and the Christian church in Africa.

Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2005
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Vertical Habits/Psalms

Bethlehem Church

To encourage continuity of worship practices in daily life by studying with local pastors, educating and training congregational leaders in Adult Sunday School, presenting a monthly drama that focuses on particular practices to encourage the development of that habit in personal life, and designing and displaying monthly banners to reinforce each practice.

Worshiping Communities
Randolph, new jersey
2005
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Vertical Habits/Psalms

Clifton Baptist Church

To develop a 28-day curriculum to teach and examine habits of adoration, confession and assurance, thanksgiving, and supplication in worship planning and preaching, prayer services, Sunday School lessons for all ages, Wednesday evening history lessons on a historical or contemporary person who exemplifies a specific habit, small group lessons, and personal or family devotions.

Worshiping Communities
Louisville, kentucky
2005
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Vertical Habits/Psalms

College Hill Presbyterian Church

To plan and implement an eight week series on Vertical Habits for both a traditional and a contemporary service, with special attention to original drama, dance, slide presentations, music, fine arts, and short original films.

Worshiping Communities
Cincinnati, ohio
2005
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Vertical Habits/Psalms

Cornerstone Christian Reformed Church

To help participants learn about Vertical Habits in Sunday worship and carry them into daily life through an eight-part sermon series and multi-sensory worship which will include congregational art and multimedia components, a series of articles by church leaders, and the development of an online web log of daily devotions which includes artwork of children.

Worshiping Communities
Ann Arbor, michigan
2005
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Vertical Habits/Psalms

Covenant Life Church

To create a series of worship services through dialogue with the Lenten planning team and an ecumenical/ interfaith clergy gathering for the season of Lent in order to develop worship habits through visual arts, dramas, sermons, printed home study materials, and a community blog.

Worshiping Communities
Grand Haven, michigan
2005
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