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 Music

Moravian Music Foundation

To make new worship music resources of all styles accessible to worshipers globally by creating an online worship community that participates in training workshops, fosters the creation of new music, and provides access to a  variety of worship resources.

Worshiping Communities
Winston-Salem, north carolina
2024
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Worshiping Communities Cultural Engagement Formation

Mosaic Mennonite Conference

To discern the theological distinctiveness and ethnocultural diversity of the church’s music by providing tools to evaluate CCLI Top 100 praise music from an Anabaptist theological perspective.

Worshiping Communities
Lansdale, pennsylvania
2024
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Worshiping Communities Congregational Life Liturgy

Mount Olive Lutheran Church

To cultivate holy curiosity about what God is doing in the world and in the lives of fellow congregants by connecting our story with God’s story through retreats, guest presenters, and the crafting of new liturgies. 

Worshiping Communities
Rochester, minnesota
2024
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Worshiping Communities Missional Music

New Hope Presbyterian Church

To promote spiritual healing and renewal, cultural expression, and deeper connection between the congregation and the broader community through the development of a weekly gospel jazz worship service. 

Worshiping Communities
Orange, california
2024
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Technology

New Journey United Church of Christ

To empower lay leaders to create digital worship services that enable lay leaders in other rural churches to facilitate worship without a clergy member.

Worshiping Communities
Hutchinson, minnesota
2024
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Worshiping Communities Drama/Dance Music

New Roots AME Church

To cultivate practices of embodied worship that reflect the diversity of the congregation and the surrounding community to deepen capacity for communal embodied worship.

Worshiping Communities
Dorchester, massachusetts
2024
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Teacher-Scholar Formation

Outreach Canada Ministry

Barry Whatley

To explore the vital role of poetic imagination and creative expression of poetry in enhancing spiritual formation and worship in the local church.

Teacher-Scholar
Delta, british columbia
2024
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Teacher-Scholar Formation Visual Arts

Point University

Jennifer Allen Craft

To help Christians recognize and confess how sin distorts our relationship to place and hinders our ability to love our neighbors, and to help the church develop artistic practices of placemaking that advance the kingdom of God by promoting justice, beauty, and connection.

Teacher-Scholar
West Point, georgia
2024
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