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.
Mount Aery Baptist Church (2015)
To strengthen the intercessory prayer of the congregation in worship through workshops, congregational dialogues, and individual and communal prayer times.
Worshiping Communities
Bridgeport, connecticut
2015
North Atlanta District of the AME Church
To provide workshops, retreats, and intergenerational worship experiences for pastors and worship leaders in order to transform the public worship of their churches.
Worshiping Communities
Lithonia, georgia
2015
Pinnacle Presbyterian Church
To implement an alternative worship service that includes an innovative and participative liturgy using musical styles from around the world that appeal to all ages.
Worshiping Communities
Scottsdale, arizona
2015
Archdiocese of Los Angeles Office For Worship
To create a multicultural church music and liturgy mentoring program to develop the skills and knowledge of high school and college musicians in order to build the liturgical capacity of the parishes in the dioceses of Southern California.
Worshiping Communities
Los Angeles, california
2014
Church of All Nations
To facilitate a multicultural ministry of reconciliation in worship and life together by engaging Native American history through storytelling and theological reflection that promotes understanding, healing, justice and reconciliation.
Worshiping Communities
Columbia Heights, minnesota
2014
First Baptist Church of Prineville
To explore the history, theology and practice of multisensory worship, and to promote creative responses to the preaching of the gospel through interactive worship stations.
Worshiping Communities
Prineville, oregon
2014
First Presbyterian Church
To create worship experiences that draw multiethnic congregations closer together and develop deeper spiritual connections to the city surroundings and global community through global music, arts and media.
Worshiping Communities
Hartford, connecticut
2014
Hillcrest Christian Church
To engage people from different ethnic communities in the practice of basic Christian worship principles in order to promote unity, faith formation, hospitality and missional opportunities expressed in culturally diverse forms.
Worshiping Communities
Denver, colorado
2014
Light of Hope Presbyterian Church
To explore alternative means of worship using drums from around the world, to promote diversity, multiculturalism, inclusion, and outreach in worship.
Worshiping Communities
Marietta, georgia
2014
South Congregational Church
To develop innovative and informal worship services involving global music to connect with spiritual but not religious persons in the community.
Worshiping Communities
Centerville, massachusetts
2014
St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church
To develop a community through bilingual worship that reaches out from the historic black community to the growing Latino community, and to learn each other's songs and worship traditions.
Worshiping Communities
Durham, north carolina
2014
Westminster College
To use the Psalms as a guide to deepen the understanding and practice of prayer, and to promote unity among diverse ecumenical, racial, and cultural worship expressions.
Worshiping Communities
Fulton, missouri
2014