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 Accessibility

All Nations Church

To equip Korean-American and Asian-American children’s ministries to welcome and form children with developmental disabilities as full members of their worshiping communities by developing, piloting, and publishing a bilingual ministry manual.

Worshiping Communities
Lakeview Terrace, california
2026
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Worshiping Communities Formation

America Media

To cultivate dialogue and shared reflection on scripture by developing small groups that foster meaningful relationships and engage with Christian tradition through training in Ignatian contemplative practices.

Worshiping Communities
New York, new york
2026
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Worshiping Communities Preaching

Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission

To encourage preaching that uses liturgical texts and orients worshipers toward their mission in the world by developing a cohort program for preachers that includes training, practice, and reflection with congregants on the significance of preaching for witness and service in daily life.

Worshiping Communities
Lebanon, new jersey
2026
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Worshiping Communities Vertical Habits/Psalms Worship Practices

Bethel Presbyterian Reformed Church

To promote intergenerational unity and develop prayer practices welcoming all generations and cultures by recovering contemplative traditions of the African Desert Fathers and Mothers through study, retreat, workshops, and worship experimentation.

Worshiping Communities
Brooklyn, new york
2026
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Worshiping Communities Drama/Dance Worship Practices

Blacksburg Presbyterian Church

To invite more unscripted, playful participation in congregational life and in worship by learning techniques of improvisational storytelling in order to expand worshipers’ ability to embody faith in worship and in everyday life.

Worshiping Communities
Blacksburg, virginia
2026
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Worshiping Communities Trauma/Mental Health Worship Practices

Cairn Christian Church

To cultivate worship that is healing, embodied, and accessible for people navigating church hurt, spiritual curiosity, and evolving faith by developing worship practices that engage the whole person—body, mind, and spirit—and connect worship with everyday life through a year-long process of shared practices, theological reflection, and communal discernment.

Worshiping Communities
Lafayette, colorado
2026
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Worshiping Communities Hospitality Missional

Central Presbyterian Church

To bring congregation and community neighbors together for a deeper and embodied experience of God’s hospitality and the healing power of genuine human connection across ages, backgrounds, and beliefs through intergenerational gatherings following worship.

Worshiping Communities
Austin, texas
2026
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Worshiping Communities Music Youth

Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

To establish a children’s choir, strengthenthe adult choir, and teach singing as a form of prayer in order to promote intergenerational participation in worship and faith formation.

Worshiping Communities
New York, new york
2026
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Worshiping Communities Formation

Concordia University Nebraska

To foster habits of personal and communal interaction with God’s word, deepen students’ faith, and promote a more deeply formed worshiping community through Bible studies, retreats, worship leader training, and mission trips.

Worshiping Communities
Seward, nebraska
2026
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Worshiping Communities Vertical Habits/Psalms

Cornerstone Church West End

To form a people who are dedicated to prayer, who care for each other, and who live in gratitude by exploring different forms of prayer in workshops, monthly prayer services, and prayer challenges that will help congregants develop sustainable habits of prayer and engage God with greater depth and intention.

Worshiping Communities
Atlanta, georgia
2026
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Youth

Creekside Church

To encourage Gen Alpha worshipers as active co-creators and leaders by developing an Innovation Leadership Lab that will strengthen participants’ theological foundations, worship skills, and spiritual practices while deepening intergenerational connections and trust through shared worship experiences.

Worshiping Communities
Clarksburg, maryland
2026
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