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.
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
Together in Worship
To deepen worshipers’ understanding of being a baptismal community by creating liturgical resources in celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of the Anabaptist tradition.
Worshiping Communities
Winnipeg, manitoba
2024
Westminster Presbyterian Church (2024)
To build Christ-centered unity amid a fractured and polarized society by teaching about and promoting shared foundational Christian practices, including the sacraments, the Lord’s Prayer, and the engagement of scripture.
Worshiping Communities
Waterloo, iowa
2024
Journey to Baptismal Living
To encourage baptism-oriented adult Christian formation across denominations by producing and disseminating high-quality and theologically robust training videos for congregations across North America.
Worshiping Communities
Cincinnati, ohio
2023
Restoration Anglican Church
To center the sacraments in worship by collaboratively creating artwork for worship that contextualizes images of bread, wine, and water for each season of the church year.
Worshiping Communities
Arlington, virginia
2023
St. Mary's Catholic Church
To strengthen worshipers’ experience of communion and to deepen the connections between Eucharistic worship and all areas of life by gathering parishioners for weekly opportunities to study, reflect, and practice community.
Worshiping Communities
Jackson, tennessee
2023
St. John’s Church
To deepen worshipers' experience of the Eucharist by learning together, sharing testimonies, varying practices, and living into the connection of the Eucharist to mission.
Worshiping Communities
Dubuque, iowa
2021
First Hamilton Christian Reformed Church
To nourish the faith of worshipers by experiencing and reflecting on different ways of celebrating the Lord's Supper and reconnecting it to the preaching of the Word.
Worshiping Communities
Hamilton, ontario
2020
Indiana Wesleyan University and Anglican Church of the Ascension
To invite people into the solemnity and joy of the eucharist by focusing on collaboratively created art.
Worshiping Communities
Marion, indiana
2020
Faith United Methodist Church
To pursue unity and reconciliation through deepening worshipers’ understanding and practices of Holy Communion.
Worshiping Communities
Pittsburgh, pennsylvania
2019
Howard Memorial Presbyterian Church
To promote a vibrant experience of the Lord’s Supper in which worshipers experience God’s nourishing presence by engaging in new forms of communion liturgies.
Worshiping Communities
Tarboro, north carolina
2019
Raleigh Mennonite Church
To renew a robust Communion practice by exploring the ways global, local, and congregational table practices deepen worshipers’ engagement with God and the world.
Worshiping Communities
Raleigh, north carolina
2019