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 Visual Arts

Home Street Mennonite Church

To strengthen intergenerational bonds, nurture creativity, and connect with the surrounding community through creating neighborhood public art inspired by scripture. 

Worshiping Communities
Winnipeg, manitoba
2025
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Multicultural

Parroquia San Jose

To implement embodied and intercultural worship led by pastors, artists, and community members, to renew faith through narrative, liturgy, and artistic expression, and to strengthen both resilience and hope. 

Worshiping Communities
Beloit, wisconsin
2025
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Worshiping Communities Missional Visual Arts

Resurrection Philadelphia

To foster robust and nuanced dialogue inside and outside the church, to cultivate generous and durable habits of patience and mercy, and to help recover concern for neighbors through artist commissions, group study, writing, conversation, hospitality, and friendships related to the topic of shalom.  

Worshiping Communities
Philadelphia, pennsylvania
2025
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Worshiping Communities Architecture/Space Visual Arts

Roseland Christian Ministries Center

To transform physical worship spaces through visual arts that will fully reflect the beauty, dignity, and accessibility of God’s kingdom by means of collaborative design and shared creation. 

Worshiping Communities
Chicago, illinois
2025
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Worshiping Communities Visual Arts

Southeast Raleigh Table 

To grow in experiences and understanding of embodied worship by encouraging movement, artistic expression, and creative exploration in worship. 

Worshiping Communities
Raleigh, north carolina
2025
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Worshiping Communities Visual Arts

St. Moses Church 

To strengthen an emerging group of creatives by fostering community, deepening theological understanding of creativity and faith, and encouraging vibrant artistic expressions of worship. 

Worshiping Communities
Baltimore, maryland
2025
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Worshiping Communities Accessibility Visual Arts

The Place

To help participants deepen their experience of God by developing inclusive and artistic worship practices that blend traditional and contemporary elements of worship and cultivate spaces that are welcoming, accessible, and reflective of diverse spiritual needs. 

Worshiping Communities
Branford, connecticut
2025
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Worshiping Communities Multicultural Music

Yachats Baptist Church

To strengthen worship life by exploring how diverse worship traditions shape communion with God through Christ across cultures using the primary expressions of art and music.  

Worshiping Communities
Yachats, oregon
2025
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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
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