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.
Madison Square Church
To engage the congregation and worship leaders in the theology and practice of Christian worship through teaching and training that will seek to renew worship from a spectator-performance experience to complete, active participation of each worshiper of every ethnicity and age.
Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2011
Millbrook Christian Reformed Church
To immerse the congregation in a year-long study of the Holy Spirit that is based on preaching, sacraments, creeds and traditions and express this learning through creative writing, dance, drama, visual art and music that produce fruit within the congregation and in service to the community.
Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2011
North American Association for the Catechumenate (NAAC)
To offer regional training institutes that will offer the catechumenal journey as a means of connecting worship and faith formation.
Worshiping Communities
Sun City West, arizona
2011
Trinity Lutheran Church
To create a learning community within the congregation that will engage with guest teachers in dialogue and collaboration to learn about worship and create new ideas for worship that will connect with the congregation.
Worshiping Communities
Lansdale, pennsylvania
2011
Wake Forest University School of Divinity (2011)
To train student chapel leaders to plan and lead worship that draws more intentionally on the theological and spiritual dimensions of the diverse worship practices represented within the school and local faith communities.
Worshiping Communities
Winston-Salem, north carolina
2011
East Second Street Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
To engage members of the congregation in Worship Renewal Circles that will deepen their understanding of worship, encourage the creation of worship journals and share their learnings with two neighboring congregations.
Worshiping Communities
Lexington, new york
2010
First AME Bethel Church
To encourage personal and public prayer practices in worshipers of all ages by creating a language for prayer through Lectio divina, praying the Psalms, and media that includes Twitter and Facebook.
Worshiping Communities
New York, new york
2010
Grace Brethren Church
To express the broad range of worship expressions that appear in the Bible through workshops to create liturgies, prayers, responsive readings, music, poems and art with a focus on the Psalms and Revelation.
Worshiping Communities
Long Beach, california
2010
Grace Presbyterian Church of Weed
To engage in a process of learning and reflection on the use of music drama and art that will create intergenerational worship services for the congregation and other churches in the community who have been invited to learn with them.
Worshiping Communities
Weed, california
2010
Ionia Celebration Fellowship Prison Congregation
To develop cell groups that include members of the prison congregation, partner churches and ex-offenders which will develop communion services to be used in the prison and community congregations.
Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2010
La Capilla del Barrio
to more deeply live into their mission statement Centered in Christ, Called to the Core City, and committed to being a multicultural community reconciled to each other through Christ
Worshiping Communities
Chicago, illinois
2010
Lancaster Theological Seminary
To provide training for worship leaders and congregations for the liturgical seasons of the Christian year through a series of events that will include traditional, contemporary, ecumenical, and global worship resources.
Worshiping Communities
Lancaster, pennsylvania
2010