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 Liturgy Music

Church of the Cross

To more deeply engage with the arts in worship by commissioning artists to lead the community in creating different art forms to facilitate worship throughout the liturgical year.

Worshiping Communities
Boston, massachusetts
2024
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Worshiping Communities Multicultural

Coal City United Methodist Church

To develop a vision for the practice of beloved community through learning and worship opportunities related to this theme. 

Worshiping Communities
Coal City, illinois
2024
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Worshiping Communities Music

Concordia Seminary (2024)

To improve public understanding of worship and foster greater appreciation for the gospel message through hosting a series of educational musical events centered on how the church's songs are windows into faith.

Worshiping Communities
St. Louis, missouri
2024
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Worshiping Communities Collaboration Music

connect.faith

To design a dynamic and collaborative musical process and a multi-song piece to give voice to the ways in which God is moving through the voices of the marginalized.

Worshiping Communities
Croton on Hudson, new york
2024
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership

Cooperative Christian Ministry in Higher Education, Inc.

To develop skilled, confident, and energetic student worship leaders through a comprehensive worship leadership development initiative.

Worshiping Communities
Charlotte, north carolina
2024
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Worshiping Communities Multicultural Music

Covenant Presbyterian Church of Athens

To promote inclusion of African Christians in multiethnic churches in the United States through documentation and teaching of the oral tradition of African Christian choruses.

Worshiping Communities
Athens, georgia
2024
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Worshiping Communities Creation Justice Liturgy

Creation Justice Ministries

To strengthen the connection between Christian worship and creation justice by producing worship songs and liturgical resources that encourage deeper love for and connection to God's creation through public worship.

Worshiping Communities
Washington, district of columbia
2024
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy

Diocese of Rupert’s Land

To inspire a renewed love of Anglican worship through educational programming and retreats that explore how beauty and poetry reveal God’s truth. 

Worshiping Communities
Winnipeg, manitoba
2024
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Worshiping Communities Drama/Dance Visual Arts

Disciples Christian Church

To deepen congregants’ spiritual engagement in worship and to build bridges between the congregation and community though engagement with visual arts and dance, especially with artists who use the church building.

Worshiping Communities
Cleveland Heights, ohio
2024
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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational

Emmanuel Evangelical Church of Grand Rapids

To address the spiritual needs of second-generation Ethiopian American children and youth in a culturally sensitive way through worship, preaching, and teaching that includes them in the life and leadership of the church.  

Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2024
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