Current and Past Grants

All Nations Church

To equip Korean-American and Asian-American children’s ministries to welcome and form children with developmental disabilities as full members of their worshiping communities by developing, piloting, and publishing a bilingual ministry manual.

Ambrose University

Arch Chee Keen Wong

To identify worship practices that nourish the liturgical life of church plants in a specifically Canadian urban context by conducting a comparative qualitative analysis of how missiology shapes the philosophy and practice of worship in three congregations.

America Media

To cultivate dialogue and shared reflection on scripture by developing small groups that foster meaningful relationships and engage with Christian tradition through training in Ignatian contemplative practices.

Antioch East AME Church

To equip worshipers to lead and practice prayer in worship in order to deepen their communication with God and to root all other aspects of ministry in a relationship with God.

Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission

To encourage preaching that uses liturgical texts and orients worshipers toward their mission in the world by developing a cohort program for preachers that includes training, practice, and reflection with congregants on the significance of preaching for witness and service in daily life.

Baylor University

Tyshawn Gardner

To equip congregations from any tradition or ethnic demographic to impact their communities through their spiritual and social witness by lifting up hermeneutical and homiletical insights from the African American preaching tradition.

Bethel Presbyterian Reformed Church

To promote intergenerational unity and develop prayer practices welcoming all generations and cultures by recovering contemplative traditions of the African Desert Fathers and Mothers through study, retreat, workshops, and worship experimentation.

Blacksburg Presbyterian Church

To invite more unscripted, playful participation in congregational life and in worship by learning techniques of improvisational storytelling in order to expand worshipers’ ability to embody faith in worship and in everyday life.

Cairn Christian Church

To cultivate worship that is healing, embodied, and accessible for people navigating church hurt, spiritual curiosity, and evolving faith by developing worship practices that engage the whole person—body, mind, and spirit—and connect worship with everyday life through a year-long process of shared practices, theological reflection, and communal discernment.

Calvin University

Tyler Greenway

To equip preachers to intentionally design sermons that form congreganats by investigating how preaching shapes Christian formation through a multi-method empirical study informed by the disciplines of both psychology and theology.

Catholic Theological Union

Anne McGowan

To explore how a collaborative, listening-based approach to Catholic liturgical development might deepen the prayer of the faithful by hosting synodal discernment events about a new Feast of Creation in Christ, training discussion leaders, and collecting and analyzing data from these events.

Central Presbyterian Church

To bring congregation and community neighbors together for a deeper and embodied experience of God’s hospitality and the healing power of genuine human connection across ages, backgrounds, and beliefs through intergenerational gatherings following worship.