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.
Canadian Baptist Ministries | Vennture
To create worship resources that will teach a biblical theology of work to narrow the gap between gathered times of worship and the other six days of the week.
Fort Garry Evangelical Mennonite Church
To commission worshipers for the ministry of daily life through creating a testimony installation that bears witness to the congregation's ministry of work in the world and through offering spiritual training for vocational leaders.
Mission Chattanooga
To create liturgies for workers that lift up the particular needs, laments, and blessings within the workers’ vocations.
Samford University
To encourage faculty to explore their vocation and calling as an act of worship and to share their stories in worship, podcasts, and other contexts to help both faculty and students grow in their walks with God and identify God’s work in their vocational journeys.