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.
Mere Christianity Forum
To engage students at Furman University in weekly student-led worship by equipping student leaders and developing ecumenical liturgical resources.
Worshiping Communities
Travelers Rest, south carolina
2024
Metropolitan AME Church
To engage congregants and the community in worship experiences outside of traditional Sunday services through workshops and small-group worship experiences that incorporate music and the visual and performing arts.
Worshiping Communities
Washington, district of columbia
2024
Mid South Covenant Churches
To encourage spiritual and emotional healing among congregations and clergy by educating church leaders in trauma-informed worship, pastoral care, and other ministry practices.
Worshiping Communities
Memphis, tennessee
2024
Mission Chattanooga
To create liturgies for workers that lift up the particular needs, laments, and blessings within the workers’ vocations.
Worshiping Communities
Chattanooga, tennessee
2024
Moravian Church Southern Province
To increase community awareness of the Moravian Christian tradition and welcome worshipers from other Christian traditions and religious backgrounds to experience faith, love, and hope through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Worshiping Communities
Winston-Salem, north carolina
2024
Moravian Music Foundation
To make new worship music resources of all styles accessible to worshipers globally by creating an online worship community that participates in training workshops, fosters the creation of new music, and provides access to a variety of worship resources.
Worshiping Communities
Winston-Salem, north carolina
2024
Mosaic Church
To intentionally center visual arts in the worshiping community to cultivate the congregation’s appreciation of the role of art in forming and shaping its worship life.
Worshiping Communities
London, ontario
2024
Mosaic Mennonite Conference
To discern the theological distinctiveness and ethnocultural diversity of the church’s music by providing tools to evaluate CCLI Top 100 praise music from an Anabaptist theological perspective.
Worshiping Communities
Lansdale, pennsylvania
2024
Mount Aery Baptist Church (2024)
To engage in liturgies and educational roundtables that facilitate inclusive attitudes and practices that welcome those who have been historically marginalized.
Worshiping Communities
Bridgeport, connecticut
2024
Mt. Olive Lutheran Church
To encourage members to engage scripture by memorizing a weekly scripture passage with accompanying devotions, sermons, and other creative means.
Worshiping Communities
Folsom, california
2024
New Journey United Church of Christ
To empower lay leaders to create digital worship services that enable lay leaders in other rural churches to facilitate worship without a clergy member.
Worshiping Communities
Hutchinson, minnesota
2024
New Roots AME Church
To cultivate practices of embodied worship that reflect the diversity of the congregation and the surrounding community to deepen capacity for communal embodied worship.
Worshiping Communities
Dorchester, massachusetts
2024