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.
Covenant Life Church
To create a series of worship services through dialogue with the Lenten planning team and an ecumenical/ interfaith clergy gathering for the season of Lent in order to develop worship habits through visual arts, dramas, sermons, printed home study materials, and a community blog.
Worshiping Communities
Grand Haven, michigan
2005
Crossroads Community Church
To develop a five-part series on worship basics that is accompanied by small group discussion guides, children and youth curriculum, web resources, visual arts and drama.
Worshiping Communities
Schererville, indiana
2005
Daybreak Community Church
To create a worship series on praise, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication that explores what each means, how to incorporate each into corporate worship, and how to develop each outside of corporate worship as regular parts of life through the use of video art, drama, messages, testimonies, music, visual arts, journals, and email.
Worshiping Communities
Valparaiso, indiana
2005
Drayton CRC
To incorporate people of all ages and skills in planning and implementing a series on developing worship habits in daily life with particular attention to visual arts, children’s messages, family activities, and sign language to communicate these ideas through kinetic involvement.
Worshiping Communities
Drayton, ontario
2005
Midland Park CRC
To explore how particular aspects of liturgy and the celebration of the Lord’s Supper connect with seasons of the church year through a series of worship services that condenses the entire church calendar into an eight week series with the Lord’s Supper celebrated each week to emphasize the various themes with special attention given to the involvement of children through leadership, visual arts, and dance.
Worshiping Communities
Midland Park, new jersey
2005
Monroe Community Church
To teach people how to incorporate moments of adoration, confession, intercession, and listening into daily life through worship services that explore both Jesus’ words and examples of each habit and the words and emotions of each habit in the Psalms. Additionally, an intergenerational weekend retreat will be offered where small groups will develop scripture, a hands-on experience and a take-home card to emphasize the practice of the habit.
Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2005
New City Church
To create a small group curriculum that includes Friday evening services to introduce urban teens to life in Christ and give them a set of daily practices that build their relationships with Christ.
Worshiping Communities
Jersey City, new jersey
2005
New Life CRC
To teach a six-week series that includes dramatic readings, PowerPoint presentations, video productions, and weekly email devotions to lead worshipers through the Lenten season by showing how the development of daily vertical habits illuminate our walk to the cross and the empty tomb.
Worshiping Communities
New Lenox, illinois
2005
River City Christian Reformed Church
To gather a team from each of the ministry areas of the church to plan worship services and create take-home sheets to encourage worshipers to make Vertical Habits a part of their living in a practical and tangible way.
Worshiping Communities
Cambridge, ontario
2005
Sojourn Community Church
To encounter and practice Vertical Habits as a significant part of spiritual formation through an interactive art exhibit, a month-long devotional written by church leaders and a lecture series taught by pastors from the church or local community.
Worshiping Communities
Louisville, kentucky
2005
St Luke's Lutheran Church
To develop a six-week series on understanding and applying liturgical practices in daily life that will include orders of worship focusing on each practice, a sermon series, and weekly family activity booklets.
Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2005
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
To develop resources for the four parts of the Episcopal Eucharist service, four activity sessions for young people and a Vacation Bible School program for ages 6 through 12 around the Vertical Habits themes, focusing on how these themes are aspects of a healthy relationship with God.
Worshiping Communities
Terrace Park, ohio
2005