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 Psalms Vertical Habits/Psalms

Daybreak Community Church

To create a worship series on praise, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication that explores what each means, how to incorporate each into corporate worship, and how to develop each outside of corporate worship as regular parts of life through the use of video art, drama, messages, testimonies, music, visual arts, journals, and email.

Worshiping Communities
Valparaiso, indiana
2005
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Vertical Habits/Psalms

Drayton CRC

To incorporate people of all ages and skills in planning and implementing a series on developing worship habits in daily life with particular attention to visual arts, children’s messages, family activities, and sign language to communicate these ideas through kinetic involvement.

Worshiping Communities
Drayton, ontario
2005
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Vertical Habits/Psalms

Midland Park CRC

To explore how particular aspects of liturgy and the celebration of the Lord’s Supper connect with seasons of the church year through a series of worship services that condenses the entire church calendar into an eight week series with the Lord’s Supper celebrated each week to emphasize the various themes with special attention given to the involvement of children through leadership, visual arts, and dance.

Worshiping Communities
Midland Park, new jersey
2005
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Vertical Habits/Psalms

Monroe Community Church

To teach people how to incorporate moments of adoration, confession, intercession, and listening into daily life through worship services that explore both Jesus’ words and examples of each habit and the words and emotions of each habit in the Psalms.  Additionally, an intergenerational weekend retreat will be offered where small groups will develop scripture, a hands-on experience and a take-home card to emphasize the practice of the habit.

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

New Life CRC

To teach a six-week series that includes dramatic readings, PowerPoint presentations, video productions, and weekly email devotions to lead worshipers through the Lenten season by showing how the development of daily vertical habits illuminate our walk to the cross and the empty tomb.

Worshiping Communities
New Lenox, illinois
2005
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Vertical Habits/Psalms

River City Christian Reformed Church

To gather a team from each of the ministry areas of the church to plan worship services and create take-home sheets to encourage worshipers to make Vertical Habits a part of their living in a practical and tangible way.

Worshiping Communities
Cambridge, ontario
2005
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Vertical Habits/Psalms

Sojourn Community Church

To encounter and practice Vertical Habits as a significant part of spiritual formation through an interactive art exhibit, a month-long devotional written by church leaders and a lecture series taught by pastors from the church or local community.

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

St Luke's Lutheran Church

To develop a six-week series on understanding and applying liturgical practices in daily life that will include orders of worship focusing on each practice, a sermon series, and weekly family activity booklets.

Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2005
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Sacraments

St. Thomas Episcopal Church

To develop resources for the four parts of the Episcopal Eucharist service, four activity sessions for young people and a Vacation Bible School program for ages 6 through 12 around the Vertical Habits themes, focusing on how these themes are aspects of a healthy relationship with God.

Worshiping Communities
Terrace Park, ohio
2005
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Vertical Habits/Psalms

The River Community Church

To teach Vertical Habits through a series of seven worship services that will include creative elements focused on Scripture and a person in history who cultivated a specific Vertical Habit.  The series will include take home materials that will help both adults and children practice the habit throughout the week.    

Worshiping Communities
Edmonton, alberta
2005
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