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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Third Christian Reformed Church

To integrate the speech we offer to God in worship with our words and lifestyles outside of corporate worship, through teaching basic worship vocabulary of faith, building Christian community, and connecting people with each other and existing ministries within the congregation.

Worshiping Communities
Zeeland, michigan
2005
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Vertical Habits/Psalms

Trinity Reformed Church

To plan and create a Lenten series accompanied with a devotional resource,with particular attention to the relationship of worshipers to God and to the development of this relationship outside of worship.

Worshiping Communities
Orange City, iowa
2005
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Vertical Habits/Psalms

Tualatin Presbyterian Church

To develop worship services that focus on our relationship with God with emphasis on youth involvement in planning and leading as well as worship team development, and to stimulate an awareness of the continual spiritual dialogue of daily life through three community spiritual formation projects.

Worshiping Communities
Tualatin, oregon
2005
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Worshiping Communities Psalms Vertical Habits/Psalms

United Theological Seminary

To recruit and train a core of ecumenical colleagues for leadership of a Lenten catechetical study in their congregations that will culminate in an Easter Vigil service planned with the participation of the catechumens.

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

Unity Christian High School

To develop, with student leadership, ten or more complete chapels focused on Vertical Habits that can be used or adapted for use in other schools, to create a team of students to develop visuals for worship, and to pursue a deeper understanding of the uniqueness of high school worship.

Worshiping Communities
Hudsonville, michigan
2005
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Worshiping Communities Music Psalms

Pacific Academy of Ecclesiastical Music

To conduct a seminar to address the need for clergy, choirs and congregations to better understand the Psalms and how the Psalms deepen the prayer life of congregations and nurture their faith.

Worshiping Communities
San Diego, california
2003
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Worshiping Communities Music Psalms

Trinity Lutheran Seminary

To offer a daylong symposium and to develop resources for singing the psalms in worship.  The project will acquaint worship leaders with choices involving musical styles, methods and modes of presentation and accompaniment, and equip worship leaders to teach others to embrace the psalms.

Worshiping Communities
Columbus, ohio
2003
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Music

College Hill Reformed Presbyterian Church

To develop teaching materials on contemporary musical settings of the Psalms, with an emphasis on music from Africa and Latin America, and to make these available to the wider church community.

Worshiping Communities
Beaver Falls, pennsylvania
2002
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Worshiping Communities Music Psalms

College Hill Reformed Presbyterian Church (2001)

To provide a forum for composers working on contemporary renderings of psalm texts and music and to introduce these to worship leaders and the Geneva College worshiping community.

Worshiping Communities
Beaver Falls, pennsylvania
2001
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Worshiping Communities Music Psalms

Covenant Presbyterian Church

To create a four-part worship series on the Psalms using the gifts of a contemporary composer, a brass quintet, and adult and youth choirs.

Worshiping Communities
Roanoke, virginia
2001
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Worshiping Communities Music Psalms

Granite Springs Christian Reformed Church

To conduct a series of five teaching sessions, concluding with a two-day retreat for worship planners and songwriters on the use of Psalms in worship and to compose new psalm settings

Worshiping Communities
Rocklin, california
2001
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