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.
Disciples Christian Church
To deepen congregants’ spiritual engagement in worship and to build bridges between the congregation and community though engagement with visual arts and dance, especially with artists who use the church building.
Worshiping Communities
Cleveland Heights, ohio
2024
Humble Walk
To deepen community ties and invite other churches into collaboration by hosting art and worship events featuring music, performing arts, and visual arts with activities accessible for all ages.
Worshiping Communities
St. Paul, minnesota
2024
Metropolitan AME Church
To engage congregants and the community in worship experiences outside of traditional Sunday services through workshops and small-group worship experiences that incorporate music and the visual and performing arts.
Worshiping Communities
Washington, district of columbia
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
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church / Church Life Africa
To encourage dance as a form of prayer and sacred art in worship through the development of collaborative cross-cultural workshops, meditative performances, and education materials.
Worshiping Communities
Mishawaka, indiana
2024
Strong Tower Parish DBA Christ Family Kingdom Christian Center (2024)
To facilitate the active participation in worship of children with hearing impairment by engaging them in expressive dance.
Worshiping Communities
Minneapolis, minnesota
2024
Bethel Community Presbyterian Church
To strengthen the hermeneutical skills, Biblical literacy, and spiritual agency of worshipers through the development of Bibliodrama in a local congregation that will help traumatized people to find themselves within the story of God.
Worshiping Communities
San Leandro, california
2022
Ebenezer A/D
To educate the congregation on a holistic understanding of worship and its intersection with all church ministries and to use drama in public worship and evangelism.
Worshiping Communities
Orlando, florida
2022
Emory University Candler School of Theology
Khalia J. Williams
Khalia J. Williams
To explore the theological significance of liturgical dance in Christian worship and to discover and analyze the multiple ways that dance shapes spirituality in worship communities and in individuals.
Teacher-Scholar
Atlanta, georgia
2022
Strong Tower Parish DBA Christ Family Kingdom Christian Center
To promote active involvement and engagement in worship of people with dementia and people with varied abilities through use of drama in worship.
Worshiping Communities
Minneapolis, minnesota
2022
The Historic Penn Center
To explore the parables of Jesus in the Gullah translation of the Bible using four art forms, in order to enhance the discipleship, prayer and worship of four congregations.
Worshiping Communities
St. Helena Island, south carolina
2021
Ekklesia (United Ministries in Higher Education)
To deepen worshipers' awareness of the beauty and character of God by engaging various art forms in an intergenerational and ecumenical context on campus and in partner churches.
Worshiping Communities
Springfield, missouri
2020