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 Worship Practices

District of Columbia Baptist Convention

To rediscover our own story within God’s story and to grow in gratitute, lament, and hope by learning about our pan-Baptist heritage and developing worship practices that connect the great cloud of witnesses with the church’s present and future.

Worshiping Communities
Washington, district of columbia
2026
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Worshiping Communities Music Public Witness

First Baptist Church of McMinnville

To build relationships with the community through collaborative musicmaking, using the power of music to inspire and connect people across differences, deepen interpersonal connections, and attend to God’s Spirit in their midst.

Worshiping Communities
McMinnville, oregon
2026
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Worshiping Communities Music Testimony

First Presbyterian Church of Tonawanda, New York

To cultivate participatory worship across generations by lifting up music as a way to share scripture, prayers, and personal faith stories.

Worshiping Communities
Tonawanda, new york
2026
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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational Music

First Presbyterian Church of Wheaton

To foster intergenerational worship by providing opportunities for younger and older generations to learn, listen, and make music together in order to promote worship that supports the church’s mission to invite all generations into a growing life with Jesus.

Worshiping Communities
Wheaton, illinois
2026
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Worshiping Communities Formation Youth

FreeStyle Learning Foundation

To equip students to engage scripture, lead in worship, and express their faith creatively by developing a youth-led arts-based formation initiative that will nurture a generation of beloved, active worshipers whose praise strengthens the school, the congregation, and the home.

Worshiping Communities
Park Forest, illinois
2026
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Worshiping Communities Worship Practices

George Fox University

To foster intellectually engaging, aesthetically vibrant, and spiritually formative worship for a Christian college community by designing worship services that are shaped by a multidisciplinary, liberal arts approach to liturgy.

Worshiping Communities
Newberg, oregon
2026
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy

Hill First Baptist Church

To center liturgy as a tool of formation and witness by developing a cohesive approach to worship planning and participation through learning about historic liturgical practices and seasons in order to promote vibrant, energetic, and thoughtful communal worship.

Worshiping Communities
Tyrone, georgia
2026
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Worshiping Communities Multicultural

Immanuel Lutheran Church

To strengthen our relationships with our culturally diverse neighbors and to explore practices of cross-cultural worship through workshops, facillitated intercultural conversations, and collaboratively planned services so that our fellowship and worship become closer to a picture of heaven.

Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2026
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