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.
First Missionary Baptist Church
To engage all generations in the singing and study of hymns in order to increase worshipers' awareness of God in daily Christian living.
Worshiping Communities
Huntsville, alabama
2020
Seabury Resources for Aging (2020)
To create and pilot participatory intergenerational worship resources that facilitate collaborative worship in a variety of contexts.
Worshiping Communities
Washington, district of columbia
2020
Trinity Church Northborough
To explore and experiment with different formats of intergenerational worship in order to foster cross-generational community and deeper connection with God.
Worshiping Communities
Northborough, massachusetts
2020
Central Christian Church
To strengthen and deepen worshipers’ experience of God by engaging the Psalms through prayer, study, contemplation, service and the arts.
Worshiping Communities
Lexington, kentucky
2019
St John's Episcopal Church
To explore practices of worship that facilitate engagement across generations, particularly focused on breaking down barriers that keep the unaffiliated from engaging the church.
Worshiping Communities
Youngstown, ohio
2019
Trinity Baptist Church
To educate the community and congregation regarding the rich heritage of the African-American worship experience in order to cultivate intergenerational unity.
Worshiping Communities
Columbia, south carolina
2019
Ttokamsa Mission Church
To discover and implement worship practices that bring together previously age-segregated generations in five Korean-American immigrant churches.
Worshiping Communities
Los Angeles, california
2019
Wheat Street Baptist Church
To strengthen worshipers’ connection with God and with one another by integrating multisensory creative arts in worship
Worshiping Communities
Atlanta, georgia
2019
Asbury United Methodist Church
To foster intergenerational and multicultural engagement in worship in order to deepen worshipers’ connections to Scripture, one another, their community, and their history.
Worshiping Communities
Woodlynne, new jersey
2018
Church Music Ministry of Canada
To facilitate intergenerational faith formation in worship by creating spaces for learning and collaboration between pastors and lay leaders in ethnically and denominationally diverse congregations.
Worshiping Communities
Coquitlam, british columbia
2018
Seabury Resources for Aging
To implement a participatory intergenerational worship service in which worshipers engage Scripture through art, music, storytelling, and guided discussion.
Worshiping Communities
Washington, district of columbia
2018
Bethlen Home of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America
To cultivate young Christian leaders to mature in a life-long faith by empowering them with the skills and knowledge to lead intergenerational worship.
Worshiping Communities
Ligonier, pennsylvania
2017