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.
Baylor University Chapel
To integrate psalms into corporate and private worship habits in an ecumenical setting, primarily through guided conversations and scholarly-artistic engagement with university students and local pastors.
Worshiping Communities
Waco, texas
2024
Bellwether Arts
To deepen engagement with Jesus’ teachings by creating songs, liturgies, and visual artwork in response to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount for use in congregational worship and art-making events.
Worshiping Communities
Brentwood, tennessee
2024
Campbell University
To engage in spiritual practices of liturgical writing, reflection, prayer, and art to collaboratively create a community prayer book that will facilitate the spiritual growth and well-being of the community through both personal and communal use.
Worshiping Communities
Buies Creek, north carolina
2024
Church of the Cross
To more deeply engage with the arts in worship by commissioning artists to lead the community in creating different art forms to facilitate worship throughout the liturgical year.
Worshiping Communities
Boston, massachusetts
2024
Creation Justice Ministries
To strengthen the connection between Christian worship and creation justice by producing worship songs and liturgical resources that encourage deeper love for and connection to God's creation through public worship.
Worshiping Communities
Washington, district of columbia
2024
Luther House, Lutheran Campus Ministry at Oregon State University
To create opportunities for students to find community and a space to explore their faith through dinner church, pilgrimage, and retreats that empower student leaders to craft liturgy that speaks to their lived experience in a culture with a broken relationship with creation.
Worshiping Communities
Corvallis, oregon
2024
Mission Chattanooga
To create liturgies for workers that lift up the particular needs, laments, and blessings within the workers’ vocations.
Worshiping Communities
Chattanooga, tennessee
2024
Mount Aery Baptist Church (2024)
To engage in liturgies and educational roundtables that facilitate inclusive attitudes and practices that welcome those who have been historically marginalized.
Worshiping Communities
Bridgeport, connecticut
2024
New Journey United Church of Christ
To empower lay leaders to create digital worship services that enable lay leaders in other rural churches to facilitate worship without a clergy member.
Worshiping Communities
Hutchinson, minnesota
2024
Ravensworth Baptist Church
To decolonize worship life by auditing the liturgy, music, preaching, and sacred spaces of the church in order to fully live into the church’s commitment to antiracism and its mission of “Sharing Love, Doing Justice, and Building Community.”
Worshiping Communities
Annadale, virginia
2024
Reconciliation Anglican Church
To integrate ancient liturgy and prayer with expressions of worship such as art, meal sharing, and communal serviceso as to strengthen connections between gathered worship and daily life.
Worshiping Communities
Bellingham, washington
2024
Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas Office for Worship
To create a formation program on liturgy, theology, and musicianship that equips and encourages Spanish-speaking parish musicians and music ministers.
Worshiping Communities
Dallas, texas
2024