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.
The Church at Nairn
To host an ecumenical workshop series for rural churches in southwestern Ontario to acknowledge the unique challenges of rural communities, embrace a theology of abundance in naming the benefits of rural churches, and encourage one another.
Worshiping Communities
Ailsa Craig, ontario
2024
The Gayton Kirk
To enhance and build upon the nontraditional Jazz Vespers service to offer innovative and radical welcome for in-person and virtual attendees to experience healing and hope.
Worshiping Communities
Henrico, virginia
2024
The Honor Summit
To equip and encourage Asian American women in ministry by hosting a worship conference specifically geared toward equipping Asian American women and by leading two online cohorts to sustain them in ministry.
Worshiping Communities
Paramus, new jersey
2024
The Orthodox Christian Academy of Atlanta
To help young adults and converts more deeply engage the Orthodox tradition of worship by establishing a training program in chant, iconography, and other liturgical arts.
Worshiping Communities
Charlotte, north carolina
2024
The Presbyterian College
Roland De Vries
Roland De Vries
To develop a seminary course and book chapter on interculturality in homiletics to equip preachers and emerging preachers to address the increasingly intercultural nature of their communities.
Teacher-Scholar
Montreal, quebec
2024
The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology
Joel Kiekintveld
Joel Kiekintveld
To conduct a case study of how a church reimagined its worship model from attraction-based to member-led, in order to address the crisis of decline of church members and clergy by proposing a model of church rooted in the priesthood of believers.
Teacher-Scholar
Seattle, washington
2024
The Tapestry Mundy Park
To cultivate and nurture intergenerational discipleship through creative arts and songwriting workshops that will result in artwork in the sanctuary and original songs that tell the redemptive story from Genesis to Revelation.
Worshiping Communities
Coquitlam, british columbia
2024
The United Church of Canada
To develop a worship community resource and learning platform with theologically sound, justice-rooted resources for congregational singing, bolstered by in-person learning events and educational video projects connecting congregational song to strong discipleship.
Worshiping Communities
Toronto, ontario
2024
Together in Worship
To deepen worshipers’ understanding of being a baptismal community by creating liturgical resources in celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of the Anabaptist tradition.
Worshiping Communities
Winnipeg, manitoba
2024
Toronto Formosan Presbyterian Church
To create liturgical resources for a multicultural, multilingual, and multigenerational congregation so this Asian-Canadian congregation can encounter the triune God through words and music.
Worshiping Communities
Toronto, ontario
2024
Truth’s Table Foundation
To support Black Christian women’s holistic worship by deepening the connection between doxology, orthodoxy, and orthopraxy through a conference for worship and an accompanying mentorship cohort.
Worshiping Communities
Hermitage, tennessee
2024
University of Alabama
Courtney O’Grady
Courtney O’Grady
To invite Catholic school practitioners (PK–12) to engage in self-study and group discussion as a means of reckoning with racism, ableism, and other injustices in American Catholic school practices, and then to reimagine Catholic schools as inclusive and justice-oriented worshiping communities.
Teacher-Scholar
Tuscaloosa, alabama
2024