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 Education/Leadership

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
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy

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
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership

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
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Worshiping Communities Multicultural

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
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Visual Arts

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
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Psalms

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
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy

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
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Worshiping Communities Sacraments

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
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Music

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
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