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.
Rainier Beach Presbyterian Church
To deepen worshipers’ practice of joy in a community marked by suffering by creating Psalm-influenced liturgical art together.
Worshiping Communities
Seattle, washington
2019
Sidebar Stories
To strengthen the role of testimony in worship by helping worshipers tell their stories through visual art, original song, and written narrative.
Worshiping Communities
Mount Holly, new jersey
2019
St. Ambrose Anglican Church
To teach worshipers to engage art as an act of worship and to engage in Christian art-making, in order to better participate in the liturgy with body, mind, and soul.
Worshiping Communities
Seattle, washington
2019
St. Philothea Greek Orthodox Church
To increase worshipers’ experience of the beauty of God by equipping churches with tools and with skilled leaders that will continue the rich tradition of chant, iconography, woodworking, and textiles in Orthodox worship.
Worshiping Communities
Watkinsville, georgia
2019
Warwick United Church of Christ
To fully integrate the arts in the worship life of the church through collaboration among liturgists, musicians, and visual artists, in order to express and embody the attributes of God and the identity of worshipers’ as God’s beloved people.
Worshiping Communities
Newport News, virginia
2019
Wheat Street Baptist Church
To strengthen worshipers’ connection with God and with one another by integrating multisensory creative arts in worship
Worshiping Communities
Atlanta, georgia
2019
Allen Chapel AME Church
To enrich worship by exploring the ways that music, dance, and visual arts support both formative and expressive aspects of gathered worship.
Worshiping Communities
Hartford, connecticut
2018
Allen University
To deepen the prayer and worship of a campus community by engaging art in community worship spaces and by creating new art together as a devotional practice.
Worshiping Communities
Columbia, south carolina
2018
City Chapel
To promote the role of visual art in the liturgy as a means of meeting God in worship, led by a community of worship artists.
Worshiping Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2018
City Church of Compton
To cultivate in children an awareness of the beauty of God in worship while teaching them skills for leading worship through music, dance, and visual arts.
Worshiping Communities
Compton, california
2018
First Presbyterian Church of Holt and Lansing Church of God in Christ
To facilitate relationships between Anglo- and African-American churches by fully engaging in one another’s worship experiences and by creating liturgical art together.
Worshiping Communities
Holt and Lansing, michigan
2018
Indiana Wesleyan University
To expand and strengthen the communal nature of campus worship by exploring the relationship between liturgy and spiritual disciplines and by engaging visual art as a form of intercessory prayer.
Worshiping Communities
Marion, indiana
2018