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.
Unity Christian Reformed Church
To learn about how the design of a worship space teaches, invites, inspires, and connects in order to foster versatile, multigenerational, mission-focused, biblical worship in a growing rural church.
Worshiping Communities
Prinsburg, minnesota
2006
Commission on Ritual and Worship (CMEC)
To review and evaluate the Book of Ritual, a current denominational resource for worship, that will lead to revisions of content, language, theology and rubrics so that the resource will more accurately reflect the theological heritage of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (CMEC), promote deeper understanding of, and meaning in, rituals, and include materials that will speak to the diversity of musical and liturgical concerns of the cultures and demographics within the CMEC.
Worshiping Communities
Los Angeles, california
2005
Diocesan Worship Directors of Michigan
To provide liturgical formation for musicians and others responsible for liturgical preparation to aid them in choosing appropriate liturgical music through participation in a Summer Camp.
Worshiping Communities
Detroit, michigan
2005
Office of Theology and Worship, PC(USA)
To reflect on shared practices of prayer and service among pastors and church leaders and to provide for a series of on-site consultations to identify and strengthen pilot churches who are intentionally seeking to connect sacramental practices with mission and service commitments.
Worshiping Communities
Louisville, kentucky
2005
Office of Worship and Christian Initiation, Archdiocese of Santa Fe
To train and form local liturgical leaders through a process of learning, and applying that learning by designing, implementing and evaluating a parish liturgy project and writing a theological reflection paper integrating what they learned with their story, the story of their parish communities and the story of God’s love for us.
Worshiping Communities
Albuquerque, new mexico
2005
Oklahoma Alliance for Liturgy and the Arts
To establish partnerships between visual artists and church congregations by engaging in the study and development of a theology of worship that includes the visual arts, offering workshops to link artists with the needs of congregations and creating residencies for artists to work with church members to develop art for worship.
Worshiping Communities
Shawnee, oklahoma
2005
Church of the Redeemer
To commission art and music suitable for services conducted within the home, to assist home-based churches in worship planning, and to write a series of articles to encourage home-based churches to reflect on their worship practices with respect to intentional liturgy.
Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2004
Diocesan Worship Directors of Michigan (2004)
To provide liturgical formation to musicians and others responsible for liturgy through a Summer Camp experience.
Worshiping Communities
Saginaw, michigan
2004
Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions
To offer a study week that focuses on both liturgical theology of elements of worship and multi-cultural liturgy for liturgical leaders in the Roman Catholic dioceses of the
Worshiping Communities
Washington DC, washington
2004
House of Mercy in Lowertown
To create a musical setting of the Eucharistic service which reflects the theological and musical aesthetic of the faith community, and to offer educational workshops to introduce the history and practice of liturgical singing.
Worshiping Communities
St. Paul, minnesota
2004
Liturgical Press
To offer a two week intensive seminar on the liturgical prayer life of the church for parish liturgical leaders so that they connect corporate prayer with daily prayer and living. The seminar will include times of theological study and reflection, and practical sessions on developing liturgical skills.
Worshiping Communities
Collegeville, minnesota
2003
All Saints Anglican Church
To establish a series of workshops and discussions on the language of liturgy, and to encourage creativity in congregational song, movement and visual art.
Worshiping Communities
Huntsville, ontario
2002