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 Music Youth

Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

To establish a children’s choir, strengthenthe adult choir, and teach singing as a form of prayer in order to promote intergenerational participation in worship and faith formation.

Worshiping Communities
New York, new york
2026
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Worshiping Communities Formation

Concordia University Nebraska

To foster habits of personal and communal interaction with God’s word, deepen students’ faith, and promote a more deeply formed worshiping community through Bible studies, retreats, worship leader training, and mission trips.

Worshiping Communities
Seward, nebraska
2026
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Worshiping Communities Vertical Habits/Psalms

Cornerstone Church West End

To form a people who are dedicated to prayer, who care for each other, and who live in gratitude by exploring different forms of prayer in workshops, monthly prayer services, and prayer challenges that will help congregants develop sustainable habits of prayer and engage God with greater depth and intention.

Worshiping Communities
Atlanta, georgia
2026
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Worshiping Communities Education/Leadership Youth

Creekside Church

To encourage Gen Alpha worshipers as active co-creators and leaders by developing an Innovation Leadership Lab that will strengthen participants’ theological foundations, worship skills, and spiritual practices while deepening intergenerational connections and trust through shared worship experiences.

Worshiping Communities
Clarksburg, maryland
2026
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Worshiping Communities Worship Practices

District of Columbia Baptist Convention

To rediscover our own story within God’s story and to grow in gratitute, lament, and hope by learning about our pan-Baptist heritage and developing worship practices that connect the great cloud of witnesses with the church’s present and future.

Worshiping Communities
Washington, district of columbia
2026
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Teacher-Scholar Trauma/Mental Health

Dominican House of Studies

Dominic Langevin

To free young Christians from scrupulosity and obsessive feelings of doubt and guilt in worship by creating resources that draw on the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas in dialogue with contemporary psychology.

Teacher-Scholar
Washington, district of columbia
2026
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Teacher-Scholar Technology Visual Arts

Emory University

Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones

To help congregations consider how artificial intelligence and digitally mediated visual culture are reshaping Christian practices of seeing, attention, and theological imagination in public worship through curated conversations, theological research, and development of a preaching guide and liturgical resources.

Teacher-Scholar
Atlanta, georgia
2026
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Worshiping Communities Music Public Witness

First Baptist Church of McMinnville

To build relationships with the community through collaborative musicmaking, using the power of music to inspire and connect people across differences, deepen interpersonal connections, and attend to God’s Spirit in their midst.

Worshiping Communities
McMinnville, oregon
2026
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Worshiping Communities Music Testimony

First Presbyterian Church of Tonawanda, New York

To cultivate participatory worship across generations by lifting up music as a way to share scripture, prayers, and personal faith stories.

Worshiping Communities
Tonawanda, new york
2026
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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational Music

First Presbyterian Church of Wheaton

To foster intergenerational worship by providing opportunities for younger and older generations to learn, listen, and make music together in order to promote worship that supports the church’s mission to invite all generations into a growing life with Jesus.

Worshiping Communities
Wheaton, illinois
2026
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