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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.
To help participants deepen their experience of God by developing inclusive and artistic worship practices that blend traditional and contemporary elements of worship and cultivate spaces that are welcoming, accessible, and reflective of diverse spiritual needs.
To pursue justice by enabling worship artists from the United States and Palestine to create rich liturgies and songs that reflect the lived realities of Palestinian Christians.
To strengthen worship leadership by implementing a leadership development project consisting of workshops, mentoring, and worship celebrations.
J. J. Wright
To learn how a musical dramatic proclamation of Christ’s Passion and resurrection awakens friendship, hope, and missionary imagination, and to translate lessons learned into pastoral habits that strengthen Christian worshiping communities.
Jennifer Powell McNutt
To study the history of the French Huguenot Bible as an avenue for equipping the church with a fresh appreciation for the nature of scripture, its role in worship, and how scripture points to the living God and transforms the Christian life today.
To strengthen worship life by exploring how diverse worship traditions shape communion with God through Christ across cultures using the primary expressions of art and music.
To invite all ages into creative, participatory worship by facilitating experiential worship opportunities with a worship lab and a collective art project.
