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    Apply for the Vital Worship, Vital Preaching Grants Program to support and enhance Christian worship practices. We encourage proposals on universal design, cultural engagement, preaching, baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and more. Two grant streams are available.

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    All Grants Awarded

    Explore all grants awarded since the program launched in 2000, with funds provided by Lilly Endowment Inc.

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    Explore detailed guidelines and support resources to help you manage your grant effectively.

    Teacher-Scholar Grants

    Apply for the Teacher Scholar Grant to support innovative research and teaching in Christian worship. Proposals from educators and scholars are welcome.

    Worshiping Communities Grants

    Apply for the Worshiping Communities Grant to support and enhance worship practices within your community. Proposals for diverse and innovative worship initiatives are welcome.

    Teacher-Scholar Grants

    Apply for the Teacher Scholar Grant to support innovative research and teaching in Christian worship. Proposals from educators and scholars are welcome.

    Worshiping Communities Grants

    Apply for the Worshiping Communities Grant to support and enhance worship practices within your community. Proposals for diverse and innovative worship initiatives are welcome.

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    Join us for our Symposium on Worship and Summer Seminars. Engage in inspiring sessions, workshops, and intensive seminars to deepen your understanding and practice of Christian worship.

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    Consider joining an upcoming event we sponsor or support. An archive is also available for reference.

    Dwelling in the Psalms

    You are invited to join the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship in a year of dwelling in the Psalms—the prayerbook and songbook of the Bible.

    Upcoming Event

    Artwork: "Celebration" by John August Swanson, 2003
    From Generation to Generation: A Service of Lessons and Carols
    Join Calvin University choirs for their fiftieth annual lessons and carols service, which coincides with Calvin University's 150th anniversary celebrations spanning the 2025–26 academic year. 
    December 7, 2025, 3:00 PM
    Grand Rapids
    , 
    Michigan
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    The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship at Calvin University advances Christian worship through resources, events, and grants. Since 1997, we have partnered with congregations and organizations to fulfill our mission.

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    We promote the study and renewal of Christian worship through partnerships at Calvin University.

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    We partner with congregations and organizations, focusing on resources, events, and grants.

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    We promote worship practices that celebrate diversity and foster inclusion in all communities.

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    A program for first- and second-year Calvin University students exploring how their interests intersect with the church.

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    Meet the Ministry Leadership Cohort peer leaders.

    A program for first- and second-year Calvin University students exploring how their interests intersect with the church.

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    Learn about MLC

    A program for first- and second-year Calvin University students exploring how their interests intersect with the church.

    MLC Leadership Staff

    Meet the Ministry Leadership Cohort staff.

    MLC Peer Leaders

    Meet the Ministry Leadership Cohort peer leaders.

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Article Psalms/Scripture

Psalm 23

Metrical Psalm settings for Psalm 23.
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Article Music/Song

Jazz Psalms

Jazz Vespers at Calvin College provided a worship service that combined art, music, and prayer to offer a creative and contemporary service for worship. These services ended in an evening Psalm that was offered responsively.
Carlos Colón and Wendell Kimbrough
Article Service/Vesper

Vesper Service: Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs

Songwriters Wendell Kimbrough and Carlos Colón lead a multicultural vespers service of scripture-inspired lament, gratitude, and hope with prayers from across time and traditions.
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Past Event In-person

A Workshop for Cantors on: The Psalms of Holy Week

Learn more about the psalms that we will be leading during Holy Week, the most holy time of the Liturgical Year. You will have an opportunity to lead participants in a Holy Week psalm of your choice, Palm/Passion Sunday or any of the psalms used during the Triduum.
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Festival of Psalms

2020 Symposium on Worship | Festival
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Past Event In-person

A Workshop for Cantors on: The Psalms of Holy Week

Learn more about the psalms that we will be leading during Holy Week, the most holy time of the Liturgical Year. You will have an opportunity to lead participants in a Holy Week psalm of your choice, Palm/Passion Sunday or any of the psalms used during the Triduum.
Article Music/Song Psalms/Scripture Teaching

Martin Tel on Creative Movement and Placement for Church Choirs

How and where a church choir enters, stands, and moves can make a difference in how deeply a congregation engages in singing and other parts of worship.
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Publication Intergenerational Faith Formation En Español

En la escuela de los Salmos / At Psalms School

EspañolSalmos es un libro de oraciones que se encuentra en la mitad de la Biblia. Leer los Salmos es como ir a la escuela. Ellos nos enseñan a escuchar y a hablar con Dios cuando le adoramos en la iglesia y en la vida diaria. ¿Qué aprendemos en la escuela de los Salmos? ¡Leamos y descubrámoslo!EnglishPsalms is a prayer book that we find in the middle of the Bible. Reading Psalms is kind of like going to school.
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Past Event In-person

Psalms for All Seasons: A Festival of Singing

Hosted by Martin Tel, with leadership from many Symposium presenters. An evening celebrating the release of this major collection that holds promise to bring the psalms into the heart of worship. Together we will explore the full spectrum of singing the psalms crossing boundaries of time and tradition. This festival is free and open to the public. Held in the Covenant Fine Arts Center auditorium.
Publication Preaching Pastoral Care Leadership

150: Finding Your Story in the Psalms

Sung, whispered, shouted, and groaned by Muslims and Jews, Protestants and Catholics, Bob Marley and J. S. Bach, the Psalms express the faith of a thousand generations. People have used psalms to voice their deepest anguish and delight, to comfort others, to express emotions they hardly dare to admit. In this book Kevin Adams shares stories of unlikely psalm prayers and an unpredictable God, opening up the honest and earthy world of the psalms in new and unexpected ways.
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