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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.
To create musical settings with local rhythms for the liturgical calendar to provide a more contextualized worship experience attuned to the Puerto Rican culture and folklore.
To develop innovative worship experiences and intergenerational community prayer programs, primarily focusing on children and adolescents’ formation in worship and the arts.
To strengthen intergenerational worship through the implementation of distinct learning opportunities designed for different groups gathered around age, gender, and church ministry.
To train worship leaders in technical skills and the use of technology for the development and implementation of bilingual worship services to promote unity among different generations in the community.
To strengthen the biblical, theological, and practical formation of worship leaders and the entire congregation through a series of workshops and special public worship services.
To develop and implement a program to train intergenerational leaders in the areas of worship and preaching, with emphasis on holistic leadership care.
To provide training opportunities for worship leaders in the areas of technology, music, and visual arts to enhance public worship and promote everyday family devotional practices.
To train the worship team on vocal techniques, launch guitar lessons aimed at forming a new generation of church musicians, and educate the congregation on worship through a series of biblical studies.
To empower and train church members to create and record bilingual songs and liturgical resources for Lent, Holy Week, Easter, and Pentecost.
To equip a new generation of worship leaders with musical skills and vocal techniques to foster the creation of worship experiences that connect with and reach out to people from the surrounding community.
To develop more contextualized public worship services through equipping musicians and lay preachers with resources and skills shaped by the experience of the immigrant church.
To create a worship team and provide the group with initial formative training on musical skills and biblical-theological foundations.
