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Find practical resources and scholarly works for congregational leaders, pastors, scholars, students, artists, and all interested in worship.
Learn about the Vital Worship, Vital Preaching Grants Program, designed to foster, strengthen and sustain well-grounded worship.
Find conferences, summer seminars, and other events covering a variety of engaging topics.
Read our mission statement, key commitments, and other important values in the range and scope of our programming.
While completing a grant on playfulness in worship, Sarah Travis began to see connections between play and trauma. Worshiping God through embodied, imaginative, and story-based practices helps people and congregations stuck in trauma begin to move toward healing and new life.
This list of Ascension Day resources, including songs, reflections, visual arts, and readings, will help you plan worship for Ascension Day, traditionally celebrated 40 days after Easter. Ascension Day worship services celebrate Jesus Christ ascending into heaven after giving his disciples the Great Commission.
The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship is excited to partner with Arrabon, a spiritual formation ministry that equips Christ-followers to actively and creatively pursue reconciliation and racial healing in their communities, to offer three curated experiential learning trips to Montgomery, Alabama, Washington, DC, and El Paso, Texas.
CICW welcomes grant proposals on a wide range of Christian worship practices. The next application deadline is April 25, 2025.
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El reino al revés que Jesús ha inaugurado, el jubileo, demanda de nosotras y nosotros que le seguimos, un estilo de vida que, desde sus comienzos en la conversión, dé frutos que muestren nuestro arrepentimiento. En el trato a las mujeres y en el desempeño de nuestra profesión, nuestra vida debe ser una clara evidencia de que seguimos a Jesús.
An emerging initiative to translate contemporary Korean worship songs into English is yielding fruitful questions and collaborations. The project is building ecumenical and generational community while introducing English speakers to Korean Christians’ ardent commitment to God, both personally and communally.
Korean Christians worldwide enjoy contemporary worship songs by Korean composers, but these are seldom sung in the main Sunday liturgies of Korean Protestant churches. An emerging initiative to translate Korean heart songs to English can unite different worshiping generations and cultures. This initiative can also help Korean and English-speaking churches identify, appreciate, and question their cultural views on worship.
El reino al revés que Jesús ha inaugurado, el jubileo, demanda de nosotras y nosotros que le seguimos, un estilo de vida que, desde sus comienzos en la conversión, dé frutos que muestren nuestro arrepentimiento. En el trato a las mujeres y en el desempeño de nuestra profesión, nuestra vida debe ser una clara evidencia de que seguimos a Jesús.
An emerging initiative to translate contemporary Korean worship songs into English is yielding fruitful questions and collaborations. The project is building ecumenical and generational community while introducing English speakers to Korean Christians’ ardent commitment to God, both personally and communally.
Korean Christians worldwide enjoy contemporary worship songs by Korean composers, but these are seldom sung in the main Sunday liturgies of Korean Protestant churches. An emerging initiative to translate Korean heart songs to English can unite different worshiping generations and cultures. This initiative can also help Korean and English-speaking churches identify, appreciate, and question their cultural views on worship.
Resources to help churches and other faith communities do ministry with people affected by adverse childhood experiences or other trauma.
