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.

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Encompass World Partners

To address the shame and trauma of refugee Christians by collaborating with leaders from various refugee congregations to create indigenous expressions of worship that praise God for deliverance from shame. 

Worshiping Communities
Altanta, georgia
2014

First Baptist Church of Prineville

To explore the history, theology and practice of multisensory worship, and to promote creative responses to the preaching of the gospel through interactive worship stations.

Worshiping Communities
Prineville, oregon
2014

First Congregational United Church of Christ

To create a template for developing multisensory celebrations of the Eucharist during each season of the liturgical year and collaborate with worship leaders to coordinate music and visual art with lectionary texts.

Worshiping Communities
Lake Helen, florida
2014

First Presbyterian Church

To create worship experiences that draw multiethnic congregations closer together and develop deeper spiritual connections to the city surroundings and global community through global music, arts and media.

Worshiping Communities
Hartford, connecticut
2014

Glen Ellyn Evangelical Covenant

To strengthen and encourage intergenerational worship through the church year and creative excellence in all aspects of worship including music, visual arts, sacred space design, spoken and written proclamation, prayer, and liturgy—all guided by the psalms. 

Worshiping Communities
Glen Ellyn, illinois
2014

Hillcrest Christian Church

To engage people from different ethnic communities in the practice of basic Christian worship principles in order to promote unity, faith formation, hospitality and missional opportunities expressed in culturally diverse forms.

Worshiping Communities
Denver, colorado
2014

Luther Place Memorial Church

To train leaders through study of the theology of baptism and to promote life together in a diverse community through designing and implementing vesper worship services.

Worshiping Communities
Washington, district of columbia
2014

St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church

To develop a community through bilingual worship that reaches out from the historic black community to the growing Latino community, and to learn each other's songs and worship traditions. 

Worshiping Communities
Durham, north carolina
2014