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 Multicultural Music

Proskuneo Ministries

To promote unity within diversity in Christian worship by providing safe and hospitable spaces for multilingual songwriting processes among diverse groups, leading to the incorporation of multilingual songs into existing liturgies.

Worshiping Communities
Stone Mountain, georgia
2024
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Worshiping Communities Anti-Racism Justice

Ravensworth Baptist Church

To decolonize worship life by auditing the liturgy, music, preaching, and sacred spaces of the church in order to fully live into the church’s commitment to antiracism and its mission of “Sharing Love, Doing Justice, and Building Community.”

Worshiping Communities
Annadale, virginia
2024
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Visual Arts

Reconciliation Anglican Church

To integrate ancient liturgy and prayer with expressions of worship such as art, meal sharing, and communal serviceso as to strengthen connections between gathered worship and daily life.

Worshiping Communities
Bellingham, washington
2024
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Worshiping Communities Formation Testimony

River East Church

To facilitate a deep engagement with scripture through a culture of God-centered storytelling that develops the habit of naming God as the main actor in stories from both scripture and worshipers’ lived experience.

Worshiping Communities
Winnipeg, manitoba
2024
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Worshiping Communities Formation Liturgy

Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas Office for Worship

To create a formation program on liturgy, theology, and musicianship that equips and encourages Spanish-speaking parish musicians and music ministers.

Worshiping Communities
Dallas, texas
2024
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Worshiping Communities Collaboration Visual Arts

Ruakh Arts

To help churches and artists learn to collaborate with each other more effectively through an artist-in-residence program that will help worshipers connect more deeply with God, scripture, and one another through the arts.

Worshiping Communities
Ashland, virginia
2024
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Worshiping Communities Creation Care Formation

Salal + Cedar

To increase ecological-biblical literacy in outdoor worship participants and their communities and to encourage lectionary-focused eco-preaching through nature-based outdoor scripture study. 

Worshiping Communities
Burnaby, british columbia
2024
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Worshiping Communities Testimony Work and Worship

Samford University

To encourage faculty to explore their vocation and calling as an act of worship and to share their stories in worship, podcasts, and other contexts to help both faculty and students grow in their walks with God and identify God’s work in their vocational journeys.

Worshiping Communities
Birmingham, alabama
2024
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Worshiping Communities Creation Justice Liturgy

Second Presbyterian Church

To enlarge worshipers’ understanding of living a sacramental life to include praying through acts of earth care and environmental justice, through crafting creation-focused liturgies, hosting guest speakers, and encouraging environmentally ethical living.

Worshiping Communities
Richmond, virginia
2024
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Worshiping Communities Architecture/Space

Servant’s Community Church

To create a more welcoming, flexible, and inclusive worship space that promotes community-led worship practices through education about theologically sensitive, contextually appropriate, and aesthetically fitting church architecture.  

Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2024
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