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.
Reformed Church of Highland Park
To offer three intergenerational “Psalm Plunges” that will provide space to look at the Psalms intentionally through lectures, worship and working together on songs, art projects, new lyrics for old hymns, liturgical elements, prayers, sentences, poems and other creativity inspired by the Psalms to help the congregation become more aware of how and why we worship as we do.
Worshiping Communities
Highland Park, new jersey
2013
Cathedral of St Paul, The Crossing
To initiate research, reflection and learning that will create liturgies that embrace the gifts, needs and presence of multiple generations, that teach and form disciples, and that incorporate rites of passage for all stages of life in a robust, urban, mostly young adult-emergent church based at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul.
Worshiping Communities
Boston, massachusetts
2012
Central Presbyterian Church
To create within the congregation a deepened understanding of the significance of singing the Psalms in worship through a workshop introducing Psalms for All Seasons, evening study groups in homes, an intergenerational visual arts group, a choral music study for all ages, a Lenten devotional Guide and a focus on the Psalms in all levels of Christian education.
Worshiping Communities
Atlanta, georgia
2012
Christian Theological Seminary
To invite local congregations into a year long process that will engage worship leaders in worship design that emphasizes broad participation, artistic collaboration and multi-cultural Christian practices, that encourages habits of reflection and evaluation and that provides opportunities to come together for reflection and sharing what is being learned and experienced within each congregation.
Worshiping Communities
Indianapolis, indiana
2012
First African Church
To immerse the congregation and local partnering churches in a process of intergenerational, collaborative thinking and reflective negotiation that will engage the full participation of all worshipers in learning what it means to be an African-centered worshiping community connecting ancestral memory to prophetic vision.
Worshiping Communities
Lithonia, georgia
2012
First Union Church
To develop celebrations of the milestones of the Christian faith that can be used in worship by engaging the congregation in an intergenerational yearlong study that will identify important events of faith formation, consider how we are formed by the Spirit during these events and how the congregation can celebrate these milestones.
Worshiping Communities
Cedarville, michigan
2012
Carey Theological College
To equip pastors and worship leaders in the free church tradition to recover the observance of the Church Year through a series of workshops and seminars to shape the worship life and spiritual formation of adults and children.
Worshiping Communities
Vancouver, british columbia
2011
First Baptist Church
To develop new patterns and habits of worship through study and workshops to teach about worship that is inclusive of the cultures and generations which reflects the diversity that is growing within the congregation.
Worshiping Communities
Riverdale, georgia
2011
Greater Mount Carmel African Methodist Episcopal Church
To offer workshops on the Psalms, the Church Calendar and the intersection of worship and culture that will equip intergenerational worship planning teams to explore biblical texts and prepare liturgy, music and visuals for worship.
Worshiping Communities
Doraville, georgia
2011
Rainbow Park Baptist Church
To offer training in music, dance and drama for the congregation so that the Arts can help worshipers better understand and embrace the multicultural and intergenerational diversity that is in the congregation.
Worshiping Communities
Decatur, georgia
2011
14th Street Christian Reformed Church
To engage the congregation in a study of the Psalms and Vertical Habits as a framework for worship throughout the liturgical year and to create visual arts and language that will remind the congregation that worship is a dialogue with God that can be carried into their daily lives.
Worshiping Communities
Holland, michigan
2010
Aldrich Avenue Presbyterian Church
To embrace, celebrate and transcend generational and cultural differences through study and practice of reconciliation in congregational worship and in workshops with neighboring congregations that will include learning, worship and sharing in the Lord's Supper.
Worshiping Communities
Minneapolis, minnesota
2010