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.
St. John’s Lutheran
To enrich worship by incorporating multiple forms of art created by worshipers at intergenerational workshops focused on creating art as a form of prayer.
Worshiping Communities
Oak Harbor, ohio
2023
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 Vida y Esperanza
To develop a program to involve children and adolescents in public worship services and other ministry activities of the church aimed at reaching families with children in the neighborhood.
Worshiping Communities
Miami, florida
2022
IMU Nuevo Pacto
To study and apply Biblical teachings and multigenerational storytelling to enhance intergenerational worship practices and strengthen church unity.
Worshiping Communities
Sebring, florida
2022
New Hope United Methodist Church
To cultivate an appreciation of the liturgical year and the meaning of specific acts of worship in order to facilitate creative participation and planning, and to welcome people of all ages into all aspects of gathered worship.
Worshiping Communities
Brunswick, maryland
2022
Tamiami UMC
To revitalize the congregation’s worship ministry and strengthen the spiritual life in our families by promoting the reading and understanding of the Bible through the celebration of family devotions based on Psalms.
Worshiping Communities
Miami, florida
2022
Vision Familiar
To involve the children’s ministry and the youth ministry in public worship.
Worshiping Communities
Miami, florida
2022
Church Music Ministry of Canada (2021)
To engage in hymn singing in worship that facilitates the participation of worshipers of multiple abilities, generations, and languages.
Worshiping Communities
Coquitlam, british columbia
2021
The Bellbrook Presbyterian Church
To cultivate a common worship language and shared understanding of worship that facilitates a sense of community across generation and technology, and to use that language to connect worship with all of life.
Worshiping Communities
Bellbrook, ohio
2021
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
Beloved Community Church
To facilitate intergenerational worship by gathering mothers to collaboratively create worship practices for use in both corporate worship and in the home.
Worshiping Communities
Cincinnati, ohio
2020