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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South Meridian Church of God

To study, develop, and implement liturgical practices that equip worshipers for mission, and to discover gifts in the community that can be assets to the church's worship.

Worshiping Communities
Anderson, indiana
2021

St. John’s Church

To deepen worshipers' experience of the Eucharist by learning together, sharing testimonies, varying practices, and living into the connection of the Eucharist to mission.

Worshiping Communities
Dubuque, iowa
2021

Trinity Church

To pilgrimage together through the Christian Year as spiritual formation in order to more deeply experience Christ, the church, spiritual practices, and the community. 

Worshiping Communities
Wenatchee, washington
2021

Volunteers of America Northern Rockies (VOANR)

To create and implement worship services designed to restore the self-worth of worshipers who have suffered moral injury and to provide spiritual renewal and hope to them and their families.

Worshiping Communities
Sheridan, wyoming
2021

Asbury Theological Seminary (2020)

To strengthen practices of congregational song by introducing a globally diverse diet of hymns and other congregational songs and by strengthening understanding of the contexts in which songs were created.

Worshiping Communities
Wilmore, kentucky
2020

Beloved Community Church

To facilitate intergenerational worship by gathering mothers to collaboratively create worship practices for use in both corporate worship and in the home.

Worshiping Communities
Cincinnati, ohio
2020

Celebration Fellowship

To nourish Christian unity and interpersonal connection within a prison by initiating and reflecting on a weekly practice of the eucharist.

Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2020

Christ Church Maplewood

To reimagine worship as an act of justice by decolonizing the congregation's worship practices to ensure that each is engaged in a culturally appropriate way.

Worshiping Communities
Maplewood, missouri
2020