CICW has awarded Vital 91ÁÔÆæ, 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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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Collaboration Formation

Campbell University

To engage in spiritual practices of liturgical writing, reflection, prayer, and art to collaboratively create a community prayer book that will facilitate the spiritual growth and well-being of the community through both personal and communal use.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Buies Creek, north carolina
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Formation Intergenerational

Christ Church Episcopal

To help children come to love, learn about, and interact with God through the development of a children's Sabbath program that uses music, drama, visual arts, and other disciplines to teach children liturgical concepts and enable them to participate significantly in worship services.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Greenville, south carolina
2024
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Teacher-Scholar Formation Liturgy

Denver Seminary (2024)

Michelle A. Stinson

To create resources for exploring how “keeping time” with both liturgical and environmental/agrarian seasons can be a means of cultivating and fostering a biblical hope in uncertain times.

Teacher-Scholar
Littleton, colorado
2024
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Teacher-Scholar Formation Historical

Dordt University

Kyle Dieleman

To encourage preachers through exploration of historical and contemporary Advent preaching to consider how preaching can form people for a life in which pacing, expectations, and longings are recast in light of the kingdom of God.

Teacher-Scholar
Sioux Center, iowa
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Formation Visual Arts

Fifth Reformed Church

To help people rest and reflect more deeply in God by creating opportunities for communal  contemplation of God’s love and presence in the world through engagement with nature and the creative arts.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Formation Visual Arts

First Baptist Church of Longmont

To deepen our congregation's appreciation for the grand narrative of God’s saving work by studying eight major acts of God in the Bible and collectively creating artwork that depicts the Bible’s overarching story.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Longmont, colorado
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Collaboration Formation

First Baptist Church of McMinnville

To deepen connections between worshipers and to encourage a practice of recognizing the sacred in all of life by centering corporate worship and home groups on practices of shared attention, communal creation, and joyful expression.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
McMinnville, oregon
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Education/Leadership Formation

Fuller Theological Seminary: Division of Formation

To equip leaders to create a pilgrimage experience in their own context by together engaging the embodied experience of pilgrimage and developing worship resources for their communities out of that experience.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Pasadena, california
2024
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