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.
Fellowship Center for Racial Reconciliation
To equip local church leaders to worship by letting “justice roll down” in their lives, by training cohort members to address structural racial disparities, and by developing a theological framework that highlights God’s desire for shalom and the advocacy for the oppressed found in scripture.
Worshiping Communities
Monrovia, california
2023
Ho’ōla Music and Cultural Arts
To equip Hawaiian youth to be Spirit-filled worship leaders through a program focused on what worship is, who we are as worshipers, and how to build musical and creative arts skills.
Worshiping Communities
Honolulu, hawaii
2023
Made to Flourish
To help church leaders learn how to develop worship, discipleship, and missional practices that connect with congregants’ Monday-through-Saturday lives through skill mapping, a cohort program, and a three-day intensive.
Worshiping Communities
Overland Park, kansas
2023
The Bellbrook Presbyterian Church
To enable collaborative worship planning and leadership through worship leader training, exploration of the congregation’s spiritual gifts, video creation, special music opportunities, and household worship kits.
Worshiping Communities
Bellbrook, ohio
2023
Au Sable Institute (2022)
To support, connect, and amplify Christian college students who deeply care about God's earth by creating liturgies of restoration that students can live out in their everyday lives as they connect worship and the mission to serve.
Worshiping Communities
Mancelona, michigan
2022
Casa Vida United Methodist
To deepen the practice, enrich, and connect the worship-discipleship program and the community outreach program in the context of the semi-rural Hispanic immigrant population.
Worshiping Communities
Winter Haven, florida
2022
Comunidad Cristiana Nuevo Pacto
To provide educational resources and practical exercises to facilitate the contextualization of a liturgy marked by biblical and theological content and focused on developing healthy spirituality and human relationships.
Worshiping Communities
Deltona, florida
2022
Creston Christian Reformed Church
To empower the congregation and local community in the practice of biblical hospitality in order to reshape the worship experience to be more hospitable by engaging in outdoor worship and community meals.
Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
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
Iglesia Cristiana de Deltona
To implement a project that promotes all worshipers’ full, conscious, and active participation through theological reflection and educational experiences and to create opportunities for interactive intergenerational worship.
Worshiping Communities
Casselberry, florida
2022
Iglesia de Dios Casa Ebenezer
To deepen the congregation’s knowledge of worship as a lifestyle and the practice of a Biblical worship that includes people from different generations and with different abilities.
Worshiping Communities
Kissimmee, florida
2022
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