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.
Eliot Presbyterian Church
To include the prayer life of children, expand the use of testimonies in worship, and deepen the understanding of baptism and the Lord’s Supper to unite people of different cultures, generations and denominations while celebrating their diversity.
Worshiping Communities
Lowell, massachusetts
2008
Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church
To educate all members of the congregation in New Testament worship through a series of workshops and small group discussions that will explore the elements of corporate worship to develop a lifestyle of worship.
Worshiping Communities
Houston, texas
2008
Guild House Campus Ministry
To partner college students and congregational members in a study of worship and the arts that will lead to worship planning that encourages testimony and students in leadership roles.
Worshiping Communities
Ann Arbor, michigan
2008
Jordan United Church of Christ
To train youth to become active, mature leaders in worship through a year-long series of worship services that will incorporate their leadership and contributions in drama and music.
Worshiping Communities
Allentown, pennsylvania
2008
Mission San Luis Rey Parish
To develop an intercultural worship planning team for a large, multicultural parish to encourage collaboration in celebrating cultural diversity in worship.
Worshiping Communities
Oceanside, california
2008
The College Church
To develop skills and opportunities for artistic expression of scripture that will connect to sermons through lectures and educational workshops.
Worshiping Communities
Northampton, massachusetts
2008
United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities
To engage worship planners from five congregations with seminary staff in a year long learning process that will include theological reflection, dialogue and engagement of the arts.
Worshiping Communities
New Brighton, minnesota
2008
Christians in the Visual Arts
To reflect on the role of visual arts in worship as pairs of pastors and artists and to present the results of this collaborative learning to the broader body of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
Worshiping Communities
Wenham, massachusetts
2007
Church of St. Andrew
To create a mission-oriented worship environment that focuses on visual arts and healing within the emergent church by integrating tradition, cultural context, and individual gifts.
Worshiping Communities
Sandy Springs, georgia
2007
Reconciliation United Methodist Church
To develop a culturally authentic and theologically sound evaluative and creative practice of incorporating indigenous art into the worship space to enrich sacramental practices.
Worshiping Communities
Durham, north carolina
2007
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church of Pleasant Hill
To reflect as a congregation on worship services and seasons to promote fuller participation in worship and to equip leadership teams to develop music, arts, study and prayer in the planning of worship.
Worshiping Communities
Pleasant Hill, california
2007
Ascension Lutheran Church
To link artist, theologian and worshiper in faith conversation and theological reflection that acknowledges art as a language with power to strengthen spiritual formation and results in the creation of art for worship.
Worshiping Communities
Paradise Valley, arizona
2006