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.
New Hope Community Services Society/Celebrating All Nations Church
To train youth in a low income and refugee community in Bible study, worship leadership, and musical skills and to develop a youth band and gospel choir that will lead intergenerational worship services.
Worshiping Communities
Vancouver, british columbia
2007
Open Table of Christ United Methodist Church
To study the theology of worship and incorporate the wisdom and practices of the Northern European, Latino, African American, Haitian, Korean, and Liberian cultures from the community into worship planning to empower the leadership and unite the congregation.
Worshiping Communities
Providence, rhode island
2007
Edgewater Presbyterian Church
To create new resources for worship which reflect the diversity of the congregation, including the chronically mentally ill and immigrants from numerous countries, in order to unite the worshiping community.
Worshiping Communities
Chicago, illinois
2006
Lutheran Community Church
To provide ongoing training for musicians, choirs, worship leaders, and the congregation through developing a bilingual liturgy, hymn book, and other printed resources as well as creating multicultural art and symbols for the multicultural worship environment.
Worshiping Communities
Watsonville, california
2006
New Hope Covenant Church
To explore and nurture contextualized worship in an urban church with multi-racial and multi-class membership through consulting with urban and Southeast Asian churches, studying questions about worship and encouraging youth to learn traditional Southeast Asian instruments.
Worshiping Communities
Oakland, california
2006
Eliot Presbyterian Church
To develop liturgy and multicultural worship so as to portray the congregation’s unity in a diverse community by considering language, dance, media, visual art, music, attitude, understanding, practice, leadership, and congregational participation.
Worshiping Communities
Lowell, massachusetts
2005
Music in World Cultures, Inc.
To explore how God is drawing peoples from all nations to become biblical, wholehearted worshipers through the study and development of indigenous expressions of music and the arts.
Worshiping Communities
St. Paul, minnesota
2005
San Joaquin First Nations Fellowship, Inc.
To encourage and enable Native Americans to worship God in an authentic indigenous way through a process that will include learning and offering a workshop to other churches and the community.
Worshiping Communities
Lathrop, california
2005
American Baptist Seminary of the West
To gather representatives from Northeastern Asian Indian, Native American and Asian American worshipping communities to assist each in lifting up its own “voice” in Christian worship, and to develop and disseminate the resulting worship resources through a conference.
Worshiping Communities
Berkeley, california
2004
Asociación para la Educación Teológica Hispana
To gather Latino worship leaders to share the wealth of worship materials with deep roots in Hispanic culture and traditions that have been created in recent years, to promote critical theological reflection on the value and use of these materials, and to encourage their continuing creation.
Worshiping Communities
Austin, texas
2004
Bridge of Peace Community Church
To seek new models of worship which provide a theological framework of multicultural worship in an urban context by offering Multicultural Worship Festivals and a worship conference.
Worshiping Communities
Camden, new jersey
2004
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
To create an indigenous worship service which integrates the best of the unique culture of their community with the strength of the Lutheran tradition, and to develop a workbook that will guide a congregation in developing worship practices that are responsive to their own particular context.
Worshiping Communities
Dana Point, california
2004