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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New Hope Lutheran Ministries

To train youth to create and lead worship in music, proclamation, and liturgy and to help congregation members to more deeply appreciate the needs, concerns, and life of youth both in the church and the community.

Worshiping Communities
Vandergrift, pennsylvania
2006
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New Life Christian Fellowship

To introduce multisensory worship, to study the meaning of the seasons of Advent and Lent, to invite Asian American congregants, especially children and youth, to learn about Asian puppetry and create puppets and dramas with seasonal themes, and to integrate this learning in worship services during Advent and Lent.

Worshiping Communities
Castro Valley, california
2006
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Shawnee Park Christian Reformed Church

To empower young people to add rhythm, melody, and harmony to familiar and favorite Scripture passages with the goal of incorporating the resulting music in weekly worship services.

Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2006
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St Stephens Lutheran Church

To create multigenerational worship teams that engage in an educational process to learn from each other and work together to plan and lead weekly worship services.

Worshiping Communities
El Dorado Hills, california
2006
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The River

To train youth and children in planning, leading, and facilitating intergenerational worship services that integrate art, dance, drama, scripture, story, and song.

Worshiping Communities
Whitinsville, massachusetts
2006
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Trinity Episcopal Church

To train congregants to tell both the biblical stories and their own faith story in fresh and lively ways through drama, images, movement, and storytelling in corporate worship.

Worshiping Communities
Rochester, new york
2006
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Choristers Guild

To teach children the structure of worship, develop their skills for leading various aspects of worship, provide them with experiences of various worship-related arts, and work with them to prepare worship services through Summer Worship, Arts, and Music Camps.

Worshiping Communities
Garland, texas
2005
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John Calvin Presbyterian Church

To provide experiences and guidance through lectionary-based activities enabling participants of all ages and abilities to discover their own gifts and employ them in worship services within an urban community.

Worshiping Communities
Salisbury, north carolina
2005
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LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church

To investigate and implement ways in which participation in formal worship can be made increasingly accessible to children and youth.

Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2005
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North Park United Methodist Church

To cultivate active youth leadership and participation in worship in the local church through the development and implementation of a Worship Leadership Training Program for Youth and Young Adults.

Worshiping Communities
St. Louis, missouri
2005
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St. Clare of Montefalco Catholic School

To encourage a deeper involvement in and understanding of worship among students by focusing on prayer in small group gatherings and creating concrete sensory liturgical experiences.

Worshiping Communities
Grosse Pointe Park, michigan
2005
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St. Paul/Minneapolis District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

To engage laity and clergy from nine historic congregations in critical dialogue, theological reflection, action and celebration around the historical aspects of worship in the AMEC, in order to identify new interpretations of traditional models for worship, seek new vision for worship that is intergenerational, and bridge historical worship traditions with contemporary ones.

Worshiping Communities
Minneapolis, minnesota
2005
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