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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Fort Washington Collegiate Church

To emulate Jesus’ love and concern by renewing worship in light of the gifts, needs and justice concerns of the transgender community and queer communities of color.

Worshiping Communities
New York, new york
2021

Hope College Campus Ministries

To engage in a liturgical and theological exploration of the biblical language and metaphor of friendship as a resource for the spiritual growth of the college community and for exploring issues of worship and justice.

Worshiping Communities
Holland, michigan
2021

Lyons Evangelical Church

To enrich support and care for the bereaved by developing liturgical practices that sustain the faith of grief-stricken worshipers while remaining vibrant and inclusive of the whole church community. 

Worshiping Communities
Caldwell, texas
2021

Mount Olive Lutheran Church

To increase worshipers' awareness and experience of God's action in history and in the world by exploring the distinct gifts of the liturgical seasons of the Christian Year.

Worshiping Communities
Rochester, minnesota
2021

New Hope Covenant Church

To create new expressions of worship that allow for freedom in experiencing God, by decolonizing inherited worship practices and experimenting with forms of worship that are free from patriarchal and white supremacist structures.

Worshiping Communities
Oakland, california
2021

Not So Churchy (2021)

To deepen the community's experience of the presence of God and of connection with one another across geographic boundaries by exploring how the community and its understanding of worship has changed through the practice of online worship.

Worshiping Communities
New York, new york
2021

Prairie City Christian Reformed Church

To reflect God's creativity in worship that is deeply scriptural and intentionally collaborative and hospitable and that continues from Sunday morning into the fabric of everyday life.

Worshiping Communities
Prairie City, iowa
2021

Proskuneo Ministries (2021)

To embrace diverse practices from around the world that give worshipers experiences of acting as host and as guest, in order to strengthen and broaden their understanding of biblical, cross-cultural, transcultural, and reciprocal hospitality.

Worshiping Communities
Stone Mountain, georgia
2021

Red Mountain Community Church

To explore artistry in the Bible and in Christian tradition in order to help worshipers experience art as worship and to give them opportunities to create visual art that invites worshipers into the Biblical story.

Worshiping Communities
Mesa, arizona
2021

Seattle Dream Church

To foster connection among the members of a multi-site church by participating together in common at-home worship practices, a sermon series delivered by pastors from throughout the multi-site church, and Benedictine prayer practices.

Worshiping Communities
Lake Forest Park, washington
2021