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.
ZionQuest Fellowship
To revitalize the worship experience in three congregations who share the same worship space by expanding the use of worship arts and musical forms so that all may engage in worship that is healthy, vital, and spiritually engaging.
Worshiping Communities
Cheektowaga, new york
2024
Bethel Christian Reformed Church (2023)
To train young worship leaders and strengthen congregational worship through developing an intergenerational mentorship program.
Worshiping Communities
Edmonton, alberta
2023
Church Music Ministry of Canada (2023)
To encourage and equip choir members as worship leaders, not performers, by creating a network for choirs in Vancouver’s Chinese churches that will commission hymn anthems, share resources, and prepare choir members to strengthen the corporate ministry of congregational singing.
Worshiping Communities
Coquitlam, british columbia
2023
St. Gregory’s Hall Sacred Music Program
To encourage multisensory worship and a deeper appreciation for the incarnational nature of the Christian faith by creating a sacred music program that includes instruction on the theology of worship, special music in festival liturgies, and a retreat.
Worshiping Communities
Chicago, illinois
2023
St. John’s Abbey
To promote ecumenical worship and hymn singing by hosting multi-choir hymn festivals and offering organ lessons focused on creative hymn accompaniment.
Worshiping Communities
Collegeville, minnesota
2023
The Luke Church
To facilitate discipleship by deeply engaging the stories of Advent and Easter through multiple disciplines, including theology, personality, technology, and worship arts.
Worshiping Communities
Humble, texas
2023
Women’s Sacred Music Project
To enrich worshipers’ understanding of God by curating a collection of new worship resources by, for, and about women that highlights marginalized perspectives and embraces a more mysterious image of the divine.
Worshiping Communities
Lafayette Hill, pennsylvania
2023
Zoe Center
To facilitate deep engagement with scripture through song by gathering worship leaders, musicians, and pastors to study scripture and then write worship songs inspired by those scriptures.
Worshiping Communities
Whittier, california
2023
Anabaptist Worship Network
To gather songwriters, poets, and artists to produce songs, prayers, art pieces, and videos that will resource and inspire under-resourced Anabaptist communities across North America.
Worshiping Communities
Elkhart, indiana
2022
Iglesia Luterana Príncipe de Paz
To create a children’s choir to include children in the church’s worship services and enhance the congregational worship experience.
Worshiping Communities
Orlando, florida
2022
Indiana Wesleyan University (2022)
To engage the history, stories, and traditions of Gospel music to better equip the Gospel Choir for leadership and to expand the chapel experience for all students.
Worshiping Communities
Marion, indiana
2022
Morada de Justicia
To train the worship team on the theology of worship and on practical musical and vocal abilities.
Worshiping Communities
Miami, florida
2022