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
Covenant Presbyterian Church of Athens
To promote inclusion of African Christians in multiethnic churches in the United States through documentation and teaching of the oral tradition of African Christian choruses.
Worshiping Communities
Athens, georgia
2024
Freedom Outreach International
To facilitate worship and learning opportunities centered around the sacraments of baptism and eucharist to help multicultural and multigenerational families in the local community become grounded in their faith.
Worshiping Communities
Spring Hill, tennessee
2024
Holland Home (2024)
To enhance the theological and cultural diversity of worship in an increasingly diverse retirement community through educational events and guest worship leaders.
Worshiping Communities
Kentwood, michigan
2024
Loop Church, Roseland Christian Reformed Church, Pullman Christian Reformed Church
To promote cross-cultural healing, prayer, and community unity among and beyond three participating churches by teaching the practice and history of drum circles as worship.
Worshiping Communities
Chicago, illinois
2024
Proskuneo Ministries
To promote unity within diversity in Christian worship by providing safe and hospitable spaces for multilingual songwriting processes among diverse groups, leading to the incorporation of multilingual songs into existing liturgies.
Worshiping Communities
Stone Mountain, georgia
2024
St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
To explore the role of music in Orthodox theological education in the midst of significant cultural and demographic changes and to develop a multicultural chant handbook that reflects the theological vision and demographic of the community and will facilitate spiritual formation.
Worshiping Communities
Yonkers, new york
2024
Toronto Formosan Presbyterian Church
To create liturgical resources for a multicultural, multilingual, and multigenerational congregation so this Asian-Canadian congregation can encounter the triune God through words and music.
Worshiping Communities
Toronto, ontario
2024
Village Church
To create a network of reflective practitioners of multicultural worship in the North American context who will learn from and support each other and discern a set of best practices that will result in a set of published resources.
Worshiping Communities
Beaverton, oregon
2024
Asbury Theological Seminary (2023)
To promote the inclusion of minority worship leaders in chapel services through inviting diverse guest leaders and emphasizing the theological potential of minoritized worship expressions in seminary courses and in a colloquium.
Worshiping Communities
Wilmore, kentucky
2023
Center for Asian American Theology and Ministry, Fuller Seminary
To support pastoral enrichment for second-generation Korean American pastors through piloting a cohort program that incorporates contextual formation, spiritual direction, pastoral rejuvenation, and funding for liturgical experimentation by cohort members.
Worshiping Communities
Pasadena, california
2023
Central Christian Church (2023)
To become a more hospitable and anti-racist church through training and reflection to deconstruct white-centered worship norms and by expanding the multiplicity of non-Eurocentric ways that we engage in worship.
Worshiping Communities
Indianapolis, indiana
2023