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 Architecture/Space Intergenerational

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church

To engage theologically with liturgical art by encouraging adults and children to come alongside an artist-in-residence in education, conceptualization, and creation of a permanent art piece that will enliven the worship space and the worship of the community.

Worshiping Communities
Austin, texas
2026
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Worshiping Communities Formation Visual Arts

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church

To cultivate in worshipers an awareness of and connection with the beauty of God through education and the collaborative design of iconography in a dynamic worship space.

Worshiping Communities
Springdale, arkansas
2026
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Worshiping Communities Formation Hospitality

St. Paul’s Parish

To engage young women in communal worship through intentional prayer, prayerful hospitality and service, and shared daily life in order to shape their faithful engagement with friends and in their everyday lives.

Worshiping Communities
Cambridge, massachusetts
2026
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Worshiping Communities Alternative Sacraments

Story Dwelling

To provide access to worship for busy families through two relationally focused worship spaces—home worship and outdoor dinner church—by equipping lay leaders, designing curriculum, and facilitating experimentation with worship practices in these contexts.

Worshiping Communities
Bend, oregon
2026
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Worship Practices

Tabernacle of Life Christian Church

To foster a deeper understanding of and practice of prayer within the congregation by training leaders and developing new prayer practices for personal and communal worship that are rooted in consistent, transformational, mission-centered prayer.

Worshiping Communities
St. Louis, missouri
2026
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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational Preaching

The Anointed Church of Jesus Christ

To deepen engagement with sScripture across generations by integrating sermon preparation and reflection with at-home worship, training multiple ages in scripture proclamation, and strengthening the theological foundations for worship and congregational gathering practices.

Worshiping Communities
Elyria, ohio
2026
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Worshiping Communities Creation Care Worship Practices

The BioLogos Foundation, Inc.

To form communities whose prayers, lament, and sending are shaped by faithful attention to God’s world by commissioning pastoral and lay leadership from two congregations to participate in the Christian Climate Observers Program and to receive those experiences back into the worshiping life of their churches.

Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2026
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Worshiping Communities Bilingual Formation

The Church on the Way

To facilitate deeper participation in worship by creating bilingual worship music rooted in scripture and by training worshipers to foster formation and participation through worship that will impact the church and the broader community.

Worshiping Communities
Van Nuys, california
2026
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Worshiping Communities Justice Music

The Dwelling

To promote full and equitable participation, deepen practices of praise, and cultivate worship leadership among people with lived experiences of homelessness by establishing a community-led choir and dance ministry.

Worshiping Communities
Winston-Salem, north carolina
2026
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Worshiping Communities Collaboration Education/Leadership

The Orthodox Christian Academy of Atlanta

To gather practitioners of Orthodox vigils to participate in a nine-hour vigil chanted by pan-Orthodox Byzantine choirs, share and hear research papers on Orthodox worship, and receive the relics of St. John so that these practitioners can strengthen the Orthodox tradition of vigils in their home communities.

Worshiping Communities
Charlotte, north carolina
2026
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Worshiping Communities Formation Missional

The Presbyterian College

To integrate worship with academic studies and vocational formation by centering students in worship that roots them in God and orients them to love others and the world as a foundation for integrating faith and vocation.

Worshiping Communities
Montreal, quebec
2026
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