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 Justice Liturgy

Board of World Mission

To create liturgical and educational resources that equip Moravian clergy and lay leaders to guide worshipers in connecting their faith with social justice.

Worshiping Communities
Bethlehem, pennsylvania
2025
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Worshiping Communities Multicultural Music

Broadway United Methodist Church

To cultivate congregational commitments to justice and diversity by training worship leaders to incorporate music from various cultural traditions, commissioning new works, and collaborating with neighboring arts organizations.

Worshiping Communities
Indianapolis, indiana
2025
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Worshiping Communities Bilingual Education/Leadership

California Prestige University (formerly Presbyterian Theological Seminary in America)

To unite existing Korean-, English-, and Chinese-speaking Christian communities in worship by training leaders for new multilingual chapel services featuring rotating language leadership and real-time translation.

Worshiping Communities
Santa Fe Springs, california
2025
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Worshiping Communities Spanish-language

Capilla Hispana Nueva Vida de Wayne

To strengthen the worship ministry so that each congregational gathering promotes holistic healing in which God’s presence restores hearts and renews lives.

Worshiping Communities
Wayne, new jersey
2025
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Worshiping Communities Congregational Life Music

Castleton United Methodist Church

To live into a theology of singing as sacramental presence by reflecting on the history of communal singing, practicing embodied and paperless singing, developing new song leaders, and composing new songs. 

Worshiping Communities
Indianapolis, indiana
2025
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Worshiping Communities Preaching Youth

Celestial Church of Christ Emmanuel Parish

To deepen biblical and theological understanding of preaching and empower emerging leaders by developing a participatory model of sermon creation and presentation that intentionally involves youth worship leaders.  

Worshiping Communities
Toronto, ontario
2025
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Worshiping Communities Missional Music

Charisma Christian Church

To cultivate a spiritually healthy, emotionally resilient, and missionally engaged congregation by forming disciples through contextual preaching, participatory music, liturgical art, and personal devotion practices. 

Worshiping Communities
Rio Grande, puerto rico
2025
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Worshiping Communities Online Resources

Christ Church Cranbrook

To facilitate active worship by teaching congregants about embodied worship and developing worship activities available for communal and devotional use on an app.

Worshiping Communities
Bloomfield Hills, michigan
2025
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Worshiping Communities Formation Intergenerational

Christ Church Nashville

To ground the congregation in scripture by creating and integrating theologically rich songs, testimonies, and other resources into worship services, supported by a new worship arts studio. 

Worshiping Communities
Nashville, tennessee
2025
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