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 Accessibility

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
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Worshiping Communities Multicultural Music

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
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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational

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
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Worshiping Communities Sacraments

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
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership

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
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership

Comunidad Cristiana de Grand Rapids

To integrate new communal practices into worship in order to more deeply connect worshipers to the body of Christ and to welcome others into such a community.

Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2020
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Worshiping Communities Architecture/Space Music

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School

To facilitate the full participation of worshipers from all faith backgrounds by enhancing both the physical space for worship and the forms of music and visual arts in the liturgy.

Worshiping Communities
Minneapolis, minnesota
2020
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Worshiping Communities Drama/Dance Liturgy

Ekklesia (United Ministries in Higher Education)

To deepen worshipers' awareness of the beauty and character of God by engaging various art forms in an intergenerational and ecumenical context on campus and in partner churches.

Worshiping Communities
Springfield, missouri
2020
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Worshiping Communities Architecture/Space

First Baptist Church on Fifth

To reflect the church's renewed mission to become a sanctuary for the city by broadening worshipers' imagination for worship and deepening its engagement with the community.

Worshiping Communities
Winston-Salem, north carolina
2020
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