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.

Showing all 1378 results
Select Category
Select Year
Select State/Province
Worshiping Communities Creation Care

Atlanta Oikos

To renew the campus ministry's relationship with God's ecological household through the implementation of worship practices that promote better ecological care and stewardship.

Worshiping Communities
Atlanta, georgia
2024
Learn more
Teacher-Scholar Ecumenical Sacraments

Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Jennifer Lord

To encourage renewed engagement with the sacrament of baptism among Protestant Christians by studying baptismal practices and theology in Orthodox Christianity, with special emphasis on confession of sins as part of baptismal living. 

Teacher-Scholar
Austin, texas
2024
Learn more
Teacher-Scholar Worship Practices

Baylor University

Melody Escobar

To explore worship practices that foster belonging among marginalized populations through an ethnographic study of an interdenominational church that worships under a highway overpass.

Teacher-Scholar
Waco, texas
2024
Learn more
Worshiping Communities Liturgy Multicultural

Baylor University Chapel

To integrate psalms into corporate and private worship habits in an ecumenical setting, primarily through guided conversations and scholarly-artistic engagement with university students and local pastors.

Worshiping Communities
Waco, texas
2024
Learn more
Worshiping Communities Liturgy Music

Bellwether Arts

To deepen engagement with Jesus’ teachings by creating songs, liturgies, and visual artwork in response to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount for use in congregational worship and art-making events.

Worshiping Communities
Brentwood, tennessee
2024
Learn more
Worshiping Communities Formation Psalms

Belmont University

To help students develop spiritual formation practices and build Christian community by mentoring student leaders and creating a weekly worship opportunity focused on prayer and lectio divina scripture study. 

Worshiping Communities
Nashville, tennessee
2024
Learn more
Teacher-Scholar Collaboration Music

Bethel Univeristy

Becki Graves

To celebrate the diversity of Christianity through exploring the contemplative, Holiness, Evangelical, social justice, charismatic, and incarnational expressions of the Church as part of the process of creating original artistic, poetic, and musical stations of the cross to share in local churches.

Teacher-Scholar
Mishawaka, indiana
2024
Learn more
Teacher-Scholar Hermeneutics Historical

Boston University School of Theology (2024)

Shively Smith

To showcase and provide access to the scriptural interpretations of nineteenth-century African American women by curating a web-based lectionary resource.

Teacher-Scholar
Boston, massachusetts
2024
Learn more
Teacher-Scholar Formation Hermeneutics

Calvin University

Daniel Jesse

To investigate how the lyrics and melodies of contemporary Christian music influence the way worshipers perceive and articulate their feelings in relation to their faith, with a particular focus on the way sadness is expressed in worship.

Teacher-Scholar
Grand Rapids, michigan
2024
Learn more