Upcoming Event
A Reformation Sunday worship service commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Accra Confession
October 27, 2024, 5:00 PM
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.
ARISE Ministries
To promote healthy spiritual formation for Korean American youth and young adults in New England through resource development, worship retreats, and spiritual formation discipleship cohorts.
Worshiping Communities
Malden, massachusetts
2024
St. Rose and St. John Churches
To translate and publish a hymnal of bilingual Kreyol-English songs for use by new Haitian-Americans and neighboring church communities as a way to welcome and embrace one another through congregational song.
Worshiping Communities
Lima, ohio
2024
Tapestry
To create bilingual (Spanish/English) liturgies and music from and for Latino people, especially in the Lutheran tradition, that respect and honor the Latino cultures present in the congregation.
Worshiping Communities
Richfield, minnesota
2024
Iglesia Metodista Unida Cristo
To train church leaders to develop fully bilingual worship services, Bible studies, small group meetings, and church school.
Worshiping Communities
Orlando, florida
2022
Iglesia One Family Church
To develop training workshops in the arts to educate the congregation on the meaning of integral worship and to develop practical workshops on music and singing for worship leaders to enhance bilingual public worship.
Worshiping Communities
Orlando, florida
2022
Visible Church
To enhance our bilingual worship service experience to impact our local church family and the online community, becoming a multicultural church.
Worshiping Communities
Kissimmee, florida
2022
Harvey Browne Memorial Presbyterian Church
To unite two congregations in mutual partnership by facilitating full engagement in music, arts, and sacraments through bilingual worship.
Worshiping Communities
Louisville, kentucky
2019
DurhamCares
To unify churches who share a common neighborhood by implementing ecumenical and contextual worship that meets the needs of the community.
Worshiping Communities
Durham, north carolina
2018
Jeff Street Baptist Community at Liberty (2018)
To build relationships between English-speaking and Spanish-speaking congregations by worshiping together and sharing stories of each community’s religious and cultural traditions.
Worshiping Communities
Louisville, kentucky
2018
St. Paul United Methodist Church
To explore the transcultural, contextual, and cross-cultural nature of music and art in the liturgy in order to promote a welcoming and inclusive worship experience.
Worshiping Communities
Frankfort, kentucky
2018