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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Moravian Church Southern Province

To increase community awareness of the Moravian Christian tradition and welcome worshipers from other Christian traditions and religious backgrounds to experience faith, love, and hope through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Worshiping Communities
Winston-Salem, north carolina
2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

Praise English Ministry

To explore a theology of the body to provide a foundation for leadership and laity to engage theologically and practically around issues of mental health, race, gender, and ability.

Worshiping Communities
Somerset, new jersey
2024

Presbyterian Peace Fellowship

To support Christian peacemakers by developing regular opportunities for virtual corporate worship and by sharing together in the joys and griefs of peacemaking through the practices of prayer and praise, celebration and lament.

Worshiping Communities
Stony Point, new york
2024