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 Education/Leadership

Christ Church of Davis

To encourage thoughtful reflection on current worship practices by gathering a cohort of pastors that will explore a comprehensive, contextualized, and historically rooted philosophy of worship and ministry.

Worshiping Communities
Davis, california
2025
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Worshiping Communities Intergenerational Worship Leadership

Church Music Ministry of Canada

To encourage intergenerational worship in Chinese churches by empowering seniors to participate in worship leadership and by training leaders to foster inclusion of laypersons representing multiple generations. 

Worshiping Communities
Coquitlam, british columbia
2025
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Teacher-Scholar Worship Practices

College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University

Anna Mercedes

To build the capacity of worshiping communities to be formed as peacemakers and to move through conflict transformatively through the development of restorative justice practices for use in worship.

Teacher-Scholar
Collegeville, minnesota
2025
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Teacher-Scholar Historical

Concordia Seminary

Kent Burreson

To help worshiping communities respond thoughtfully to contemporary Christian worship by bringing the study of Martin Luther's writings on worship and the sacraments into dialogue with modern cultural engagement with worship. 

Teacher-Scholar
St. Louis, missouri
2025
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Worshiping Communities Ecumenical Multicultural

Ecumenical Chaplaincy at the University of Toronto 

To strengthen ecumenical relationships and spiritual formation opportunities in a culturally and linguistically diverse student body through the development of a regular Taizé service on campus. 

Worshiping Communities
Toronto, ontario
2025
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Worshiping Communities Congregational Life

Faith Presbyterian Church

To deepen theological identity across diverse ages and ethnicities by implementing an Acts 2:42 project focused on engaging God’s Word, building community, and praying together. 

Worshiping Communities
Olney, maryland
2025
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