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.
Faith Mennonite Church
To equip lay leaders by hosting workshops that broaden understanding of what preaching can be in an intergenerational and hybrid worship context in order to expand leaders’ repertoire of meaningful ways of engaging with scripture to facilitate spiritual growth.
Worshiping Communities
Leamington, ontario
2024
Innovative Literacy Solutions
To train children and youth in understanding of worship and in worship skills, including media technology and leading music, to equip them to lead worship at Lighthouse Full Life Center.
Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2024
New Journey United Church of Christ
To empower lay leaders to create digital worship services that enable lay leaders in other rural churches to facilitate worship without a clergy member.
Worshiping Communities
Hutchinson, minnesota
2024
The United Church of Canada
To develop a worship community resource and learning platform with theologically sound, justice-rooted resources for congregational singing, bolstered by in-person learning events and educational video projects connecting congregational song to strong discipleship.
Worshiping Communities
Toronto, ontario
2024
Congregational Church of the Good Shepherd
To connect older and younger generations in both church and neighborhood communities through creating virtual meeting places for online worshipers and by creating opportunities for intergenerational musical and artistic engagement.
Worshiping Communities
Chicago, illinois
2023
Queen's College
Robert Neil Cooke
Robert Neil Cooke
To develop a theology of technology and social media that leads to the development of liturgical skills in the local church context and of ways to utilize technology and social media to strengthen the public activities of the church.
Teacher-Scholar
St. John's, newfoundland and labrador
2022
Visible Church
To enhance our bilingual worship service experience to impact our local church family and the online community, becoming a multicultural church.
Worshiping Communities
Kissimmee, florida
2022
Cary First Christian Church
To enable the full, conscious, active participation of online worshipers by developing community among those worshiping online and in-person.
Worshiping Communities
Cary, north carolina
2019
New Brunswick Theological Seminary
To facilitate meaningful, active participation of the whole community in worship by exploring the role of worship in theological education and methods of digital accessibility.
Worshiping Communities
New Brunswick, new jersey
2019
Wartburg Seminary
To extend the worshiping community to include those who are not physically present by exploring ways to faithfully worship in a digital world.
Worshiping Communities
Dubuque, iowa
2019
More Than 12 Church
To collaboratively plan multicultural worship services that present newly written biblically inspired psalms and multimedia experiences related to those psalms.
Worshiping Communities
Surrey, british columbia
2015
Andover Newton Theological School
To help seminary students and faculty discern theologically sound and effective uses of technology and visual media in worship through a year-long process of learning about best practices for chapel worship.
Worshiping Communities
Newton Centre, massachusetts
2014