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.
Princeton Theological Seminary
Hyun Woo Kim
Hyun Woo Kim
To empower Asian American churches to embrace their cultural heritage, reconcile intergenerational differences, and re-envision worship in ways that reflect their congregants’ diverse identities and experiences by integrating Asian cultural elements into Western hymnody and worship frameworks.
Worshiping Communities
Princeton, new jersey
2024
The Presbyterian College
Roland De Vries
Roland De Vries
To develop a seminary course and book chapter on interculturality in homiletics to equip preachers and emerging preachers to address the increasingly intercultural nature of their communities.
Teacher-Scholar
Montreal, quebec
2024
University of Notre Dame
Jonathan J. Hehn
Jonathan J. Hehn
To foster appreciation for the worship practices of Presbyterian and Reformed Christians around the world through an anthropological study of Korean and Taiwanese Presbyterian liturgical practices and the dynamic exchange between those church communities and their North American siblings.
Teacher-Scholar
Notre Dame, indiana
2024
Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Katie Graber
Katie Graber
To help communities critically engage questions about why we sing diverse music and how we can do it justly by collaboratively creating a hymnal companion-style volume that aids North American communities as they sing songs from around the world.
Teacher-Scholar
Elkhart, indiana
2023
École de Théologie Évangélique du Québec
Ruth Elaine Labeth
Ruth Elaine Labeth
To study the composition of scripture-based songs in Creole churches in Guadeloupe to help worship leaders and pastors envision culturally contextualized worship.
Teacher-Scholar
Montreal, quebec
2023
Azusa Pacific University
Alexander Jun
Alexander Jun
To build on previous research in chapel programs at Christian colleges and universities by examining the role of chapel leaders in shaping chapel content and culture in order to demonstrate how chapel services shape the culture for diverse attendees.
Teacher-Scholar
Azusa, california
2022
Southern Methodist University
Marcell Silva Steuernagel
Marcell Silva Steuernagel
To engage in ethnographic research in collaboration with congregations in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex in order to promote integrative ecclesial environments that bridge the racial divide between White, Black, and Latinx constituencies.
Teacher-Scholar
Dallas, texas
2022
Knox College
Sarah Travis
Sarah Travis
To create and field-test a preaching and liturgical resource addressing reconciliation among Settler Canadians and Indigenous peoples for the Presbyterian Church in Canada, based on two Calls to Action from the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Teacher-Scholar
Toronto, ontario
2021
Azusa Pacific University
Alexander Jun
Alexander Jun
To study the experience of students of color in chapel programs at Christian colleges and universities, and to assess the influence of chapel worship practices on the stated goals of these institutions with regard to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Teacher-Scholar
Azusa, california
2020
Baylor University
Monique M. Ingalls
Monique M. Ingalls
To conduct ethnographic fieldwork of interethnic gospel choirs and to identity promising strategies for how worship music can build "convivial" interethnic congregational cultures.
Teacher-Scholar
Waco, texas
2019