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News Item | April 14, 2023 First Round of Vital Worship Grants awarded for 2023 by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship has announced 15 projects for funding in this first round of grants awarded for 2023-2024, 11 in the Teacher-Scholar stream of Grants and 4 in the Worshiping Communities stream of grants. News Item | November 30, 2022 Let the Children Come Splitting into age-divided worship each Sunday doesn't necessarily result in kids who go on to choose worship as adults. That's why pastors are talking about intergenerational worship. Feature Story | August 03, 2022 Vital Worship Grants awarded for 2022 by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship announced today that it will fund 25 Vital Worship Grants projects to Worshiping Communities for 2022-2023 as part of its Vital Worship Grants Program. This group of grants puts us over the 1000 mark for grants awarded through this program. Thanks be to God! News Item | April 14, 2022 How to Submit a Budget Revision A webinar guiding Vital Worship Grant recipients through the process of revising their project budgets. This will be helpful for both Worshiping Communities and Teacher-Scholars grant recipients at any point in their project. Resource Guide | July 08, 2020 Birgitta Johnson on New African American Ecumenical Hymnal One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism is a new Protestant hymnal compiled by a core committee of worship arts ministers and scholars. It goes deep and wide into the multiple streams of black Christian music and worship. Conversation | January 07, 2019 Birgitta Johnson on Praise and Worship Music Praise and worship music can lift worshipers’ hearts to God and unite people across culture, religious tradition, and background. But the genre is not meant to be the only kind of music in a congregation’s repertoire. Conversation | January 07, 2019 Music, Congregational Identity, and the Relationships that Spark Effective Ministry How does music express and form a congregation’s identity? How can that identity be defined and shaped by the relationships it seeks to nurture and the mission it seeks to promote? Audio | February 17, 2017 Innovation in Worship: Working with a Team to Make Healthy Changes Listen to a diverse group of panelists from various churches across North America describe how they envisioned and led their congregations through changes in worship. Audio | February 16, 2017 Shaping a Congregation's Worship DNA The workshop offers wisdom for designing and shaping the first year of worship in new and restart church settings. Audio | February 14, 2017 Sandra Van Opstal on The Next Worship While some U.S. politicians play on fears about ethnic minorities, changing demographic trends actually offer churches a huge opportunity to create new forms of worship. Conversation | April 07, 2016 Wisdom for Leading Through Changes Is your worshiping community facing change in worship and looking for wisdom and advice? Do you believe change is needed in your worship and wonder how to initiate it in healthy ways? Video | April 06, 2016 Stroke Survivors in our Worshiping Communities This workshop presents an ethnographic study describing the experiences of stroke survivors in their church communities and two worship services planned for these participants. Audio | March 04, 2016 Sandra Van Opstal on Multicultural Millennials in Worship You might be surprised to learn what matters in worship to multicultural millennials in this urban Chicago church. Conversation | December 17, 2015 Monique Ingalls on Why Scholars Can Stop Worship Wars So many worship conversations go awry because people and congregations don’t know how to talk about what they do or value in worship. Both Christian and non-Christian scholars can help. Conversation | December 15, 2015 The Wardrobe of Easter: Love What better place to celebrate the Good News of God’s agape and to get the instruction manual for learning how to live it out toward others than in the congregation of saints on Sunday morning? There we gather to hear about and to celebrate, to receive instruction and to pledge anew. Reflection | April 13, 2014 Renewing Christian Worship in Pakistan Knowing who and whose they are helps illiterate Christians pass on their faith to the next generation. Feature Story | January 07, 2013 More Context on Christians in Pakistan Christian faith involves more dangers in Pakistan than in North America or Europe. Feature Story | January 07, 2013 Why Persecuted Christians Sing Psalms in Pakistan Singing psalms helps persecuted Christians in Pakistan keep the faith. Feature Story | January 07, 2013 Guide for Worship Service Visit This guide is structured to help you become more aware of the multiple levels of meaning in a worship service and to stimulate reflection on the relationship between theology, culture, and worship practices. Article | December 06, 2012 1 2 3 ... Next »