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 Testimony

Theological Horizons 

To equip university students to bear witness to God’s presence through personal storytelling in worship. 

Worshiping Communities
Charlottesville, virginia
2025
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Worshiping Communities Multicultural Music

University Baptist Church

To foster worship that welcomes a diverse community by developing an inclusive-language hymnal that includes multiple languages, promotes faithful anti-racism, and reflects the concerns and style preferences of young people.  

Worshiping Communities
Minneapolis, minnesota
2025
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Worshiping Communities Alternative Youth

Wesley Foundation at Central Michigan University

To create a dinner church, led by student leaders who co-create the liturgy and liturgical arts, to be an alternative and collaborative worshiping community for young adults who are weary of traditional church spaces. 

Worshiping Communities
Mount Pleasant, michigan
2025
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Worshiping Communities Missional Music

Advent Lutheran Church

To engage a growing population of people who identify as spiritual, but not religious, and to increase awareness of God's presence in daily life by hosting a monthly worship series that draws connections between familiar secular music and the gospel.

Worshiping Communities
New York, new york
2024
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership

Alamance Presbyterian Church

To cultivate wonder and gratitude for God and creation, to deeply engage lay people in scriptural interpretation, and to empower new leaders within the church by learning and contemplating worship and growing in creative expressions of worship.

Worshiping Communities
Greensboro, north carolina
2024
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Worshiping Communities Accessibility Education/Leadership

Allisonville Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

To develop more inclusive worship practices by first learning about the needs and desires ofthose often excluded from worship and the obstacles they often face, and to then initiate new worship practices.

Worshiping Communities
Indianapolis, indiana
2024
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Worshiping Communities Bilingual Formation

ARISE Ministries

To promote healthy spiritual formation for Korean American youth and young adults in New England through resource development, worship retreats, and spiritual formation discipleship cohorts.

Worshiping Communities
Malden, massachusetts
2024
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Worshiping Communities Creation Care

Atlanta Oikos

To renew the campus ministry's relationship with God's ecological household through the implementation of worship practices that promote better ecological care and stewardship.

Worshiping Communities
Atlanta, georgia
2024
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Multicultural

Baylor University Chapel

To integrate psalms into corporate and private worship habits in an ecumenical setting, primarily through guided conversations and scholarly-artistic engagement with university students and local pastors.

Worshiping Communities
Waco, texas
2024
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Music

Bellwether Arts

To deepen engagement with Jesus’ teachings by creating songs, liturgies, and visual artwork in response to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount for use in congregational worship and art-making events.

Worshiping Communities
Brentwood, tennessee
2024
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