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.
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
Outreach Canada Ministry
Barry Whatley
Barry Whatley
To explore the vital role of poetic imagination and creative expression of poetry in enhancing spiritual formation and worship in the local church.
Teacher-Scholar
Delta, british columbia
2024
Point University
Jennifer Allen Craft
Jennifer Allen Craft
To help Christians recognize and confess how sin distorts our relationship to place and hinders our ability to love our neighbors, and to help the church develop artistic practices of placemaking that advance the kingdom of God by promoting justice, beauty, and connection.
Teacher-Scholar
West Point, georgia
2024
Praise English Ministry
To explore a theology of the body to provide a foundation for leadership and laity to engage theologically and practically around issues of mental health, race, gender, and ability.
Worshiping Communities
Somerset, new jersey
2024
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
To support Christian peacemakers by developing regular opportunities for virtual corporate worship and by sharing together in the joys and griefs of peacemaking through the practices of prayer and praise, celebration and lament.
Worshiping Communities
Stony Point, new york
2024