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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Worshiping Communities Sacraments

Faith United Methodist Church

To pursue unity and reconciliation through deepening worshipers’ understanding and practices of Holy Communion.

Worshiping Communities
Pittsburgh, pennsylvania
2019
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy

First Baptist Church Ashland

To foster intergenerational and interracial discipleship by writing daily liturgies together that connect with the weekly liturgies of corporate worship.

Worshiping Communities
Ashland, virginia
2019
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Worshiping Communities Drama/Dance Visual Arts

Fisher Street Church of God in Christ International

To deepen young people’s engagement with Scripture, with one another, and with their community by training them to lead worship through dance, music, and mime, using the Psalms as a model.

Worshiping Communities
Jonesboro, arkansas
2019
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Worshiping Communities Accessibility Liturgy

Freedom Outreach International: Ministry to the Military

To develop intentional worship models for military congregations that remove barriers to those who are experiencing PTSD and to facilitate connection through prayer.

Worshiping Communities
Cleveland, tennessee
2019
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Teacher-Scholar Formation Worship Leadership

Fuller Theological Seminary

Ed Willmington

To research six vocational competencies of well-formed worship leaders and develop a variety of resources to share insights related to the formation of worship leaders.

Teacher-Scholar
Pasadena, california
2019
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Worshiping Communities Bilingual Music

Harvey Browne Memorial Presbyterian Church

To unite two congregations in mutual partnership by facilitating full engagement in music, arts, and sacraments through bilingual worship.

Worshiping Communities
Louisville, kentucky
2019
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Worshiping Communities Sacraments

Howard Memorial Presbyterian Church

To promote a vibrant experience of the Lord’s Supper in which worshipers experience God’s nourishing presence by engaging in new forms of communion liturgies.

Worshiping Communities
Tarboro, north carolina
2019
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Worshiping Communities Drama/Dance Liturgy

Humble Walk Lutheran Church

To promote the role of visual and performing arts in the liturgy as a means of meeting God in worship, by providing opportunities for artists to lead the congregation.

Worshiping Communities
St Paul, minnesota
2019
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Worshiping Communities Liturgy Visual Arts

Kanata United Church

To help worshipers live into the salvation story in the liturgical year by participating in collaborative art-making that will be incorporated into corporate worship.

Worshiping Communities
Ottawa, ontario
2019
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Teacher-Scholar Formation Sacraments

Lee University

Lisa Milligan Long

To survey worshipers' understanding of the effect of participation in the Lord's Supper, and to offer methods to leaders in a variety of denominational settings for deepening Eucharistic participation.

Teacher-Scholar
Cleveland, tennessee
2019
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