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.
Calvary Church
To deeply form worshipers through the structure of the liturgy by collaboratively writing songs for the elements of the liturgy.
Worshiping Communities
Holland, michigan
2019
City Church Philadelphia
To invite people into the biblical story in worship and to broaden their vocabulary for interacting with God using visual art as a focal point.
Worshiping Communities
Philadelphia, pennsylvania
2019
Creator's Table
To use the arts to explore every aspect of worship to invite all people into the presence of the beauty, majesty, mystery, and holiness of the triune God.
Worshiping Communities
Spokane, washington
2019
First Baptist Church Ashland
To foster intergenerational and interracial discipleship by writing daily liturgies together that connect with the weekly liturgies of corporate worship.
Worshiping Communities
Ashland, virginia
2019
Freedom Outreach International: Ministry to the Military
To develop intentional worship models for military congregations that remove barriers to those who are experiencing PTSD and to facilitate connection through prayer.
Worshiping Communities
Cleveland, tennessee
2019
Humble Walk Lutheran Church
To promote the role of visual and performing arts in the liturgy as a means of meeting God in worship, by providing opportunities for artists to lead the congregation.
Worshiping Communities
St Paul, minnesota
2019
Kanata United Church
To help worshipers live into the salvation story in the liturgical year by participating in collaborative art-making that will be incorporated into corporate worship.
Worshiping Communities
Ottawa, ontario
2019
Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church
To draw mutually enriching connections between worship and social justice by crafting worship elements that flow out of and deepen worshipers’ participation in justice ministries.
Worshiping Communities
Oakland, california
2019
Monument of Faith Church
To explore the history of liturgical practices in the church's worship in order to be formed by those practices and to authentically integrate them into the church's worship life.
Worshiping Communities
Durham, north carolina
2019
Rainier Beach Presbyterian Church
To deepen worshipers’ practice of joy in a community marked by suffering by creating Psalm-influenced liturgical art together.
Worshiping Communities
Seattle, washington
2019
Sidebar Stories
To strengthen the role of testimony in worship by helping worshipers tell their stories through visual art, original song, and written narrative.
Worshiping Communities
Mount Holly, new jersey
2019
St. Ambrose Anglican Church
To teach worshipers to engage art as an act of worship and to engage in Christian art-making, in order to better participate in the liturgy with body, mind, and soul.
Worshiping Communities
Seattle, washington
2019