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.
IMU Nuevo Pacto
To study and apply Biblical teachings and multigenerational storytelling to enhance intergenerational worship practices and strengthen church unity.
Worshiping Communities
Sebring, florida
2022
Indiana Wesleyan University (2022)
To engage the history, stories, and traditions of Gospel music to better equip the Gospel Choir for leadership and to expand the chapel experience for all students.
Worshiping Communities
Marion, indiana
2022
Morada de Justicia
To train the worship team on the theology of worship and on practical musical and vocal abilities.
Worshiping Communities
Miami, florida
2022
New Hope Presbyterian Church (2022)
To cultivate a youth worship culture that deepens their experiences of God, promotes a greater sense of belonging, and strengthens relationships among our youth.
Worshiping Communities
Orange, california
2022
New Hope United Methodist Church
To cultivate an appreciation of the liturgical year and the meaning of specific acts of worship in order to facilitate creative participation and planning, and to welcome people of all ages into all aspects of gathered worship.
Worshiping Communities
Brunswick, maryland
2022
Oklahoma Christian University
To develop a vibrant, meaningful, an.d formative worship program for daily chapel in order to develop a shared communal identity in Christ which is rooted in the University’s acapella Church of Christ heritage and is also hospitable to all worshipers
Worshiping Communities
Oklahoma City, oklahoma
2022
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (2022)
To center worship in the seminary’s curriculum by fostering symbiotic exchange between the worship program and other departments, with emphasis on worship as a central place of formation for the whole community.
Worshiping Communities
Pittsburgh, pennsylvania
2022
Queen's College
Robert Neil Cooke
Robert Neil Cooke
To develop a theology of technology and social media that leads to the development of liturgical skills in the local church context and of ways to utilize technology and social media to strengthen the public activities of the church.
Teacher-Scholar
St. John's, newfoundland and labrador
2022
Raleigh Mennonite Church (2022)
To investigate how the legacy of white supremacy affects worship practices, to learn to better appreciate and include worship materials from other cultures without appropriating, and to learn how anti-racist practices are implemented by other churches leading the way in these efforts.
Worshiping Communities
Raleigh, north carolina
2022
Saint Peter A.M.E. Zion Church
To promote genuine grace-filled hospitality in worship through a more racially, culturally, and intergenerationally sensitive worship experience that is sustained and perpetuated through a message of love, adaptability, and social engagement during the worship experience.
Worshiping Communities
Tuscaloosa, alabama
2022
Samford University
Emily Andrews and Will Kynes
Emily Andrews and Will Kynes
To learn from and with an ecumenical group of churches unfamiliar with the practice of corporate lament to gather the most important questions and pastoral concerns related to practicing corporate lament, and to develop practices for retrieving and employing lament in worship.
Teacher-Scholar
Birmingham, alabama
2022
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference
To promote unity and diversity in local Seventh Day Baptist congregations by gathering worship leaders to discern the transcultural, contextual, cross-cultural, and counter-culture nature of worship as they worship together in diverse ways.
Worshiping Communities
Janesville, wisconsin
2022