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.

Worship Resources
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Teacher-Scholar Worship Resources

Fuller Theological Seminary

Matthew Kaemingk

To create a handbook that will provide leaders with a host of songs, prayers, blessings, sample worship services, sermon topics, and guides for small-group discussion to equip pastors and worship leaders with practical ideas, advice, and resources to lead effective worship for workers.

Teacher-Scholar
Pasedena, california
2024
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Teacher-Scholar Intergenerational Worship Resources

Kuyper College

Richelle White

To create a storytelling lab for an intergenerational group of women to create spoken-word and written testimonies about healing and community building that will serve as liturgies in corporate worship and as a curriculum resource.

Teacher-Scholar
Grand Rapids, michigan
2024
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Teacher-Scholar Intercultural Music

Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

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
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Teacher-Scholar Cultural Engagement Intercultural

École de Théologie Évangélique du Québec

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
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Teacher-Scholar Public Witness Worship Resources

Villanova University

Wonchul Shin

To provide Asian and Asian-American worshiping communities with rich Pan-Asian theological resources for their public worship practice as a form of public witness that will proclaim the dignity of the Asian and Asian-American community and transform the culture of anti-Asian violence and racism.

Teacher-Scholar
Villanova, pennsylvania
2022
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Teacher-Scholar Liturgy Worship Resources

College of St. Scholastica

Elizabeth Anderson

To survey the process of revising the calendar of commemorations in the Episcopal Church since 2003 and to offer a proposal for how calendar reform might proceed amidst a diversity of theological understandings and liturgical practices.

Teacher-Scholar
Duluth, minnesota
2020
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Teacher-Scholar Liturgy Worship Resources

Western Theological Seminary

Ronald Rienstra

To write a book comprised of brief essays that explore the deep patterns in worship as well as in worship's constituent parts (ordo, scripture, sermon, song, prayer, action).

Teacher-Scholar
Grand Rapids, michigan
2020
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Teacher-Scholar Collaboration Public Witness

Union Presbyterian Seminary

Paul Galbreath

To develop liturgical resources for congregational use that link Christian discipleship and earth care, grounding environmental advocacy in corporate worship practices.

Teacher-Scholar
Richmond, virginia
2019
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Teacher-Scholar Worship Resources

University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Robert Pendergraft

To curate a sourcebook of materials for use in the local church with the specific aim of strengthening intergenerational participation in worship.

Teacher-Scholar
Belton, texas
2019
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