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.
Vision Familiar
To involve the children’s ministry and the youth ministry in public worship.
Church Music Ministry of Canada (2021)
To engage in hymn singing in worship that facilitates the participation of worshipers of multiple abilities, generations, and languages.
The Bellbrook Presbyterian Church
To cultivate a common worship language and shared understanding of worship that facilitates a sense of community across generation and technology, and to use that language to connect worship with all of life.
The Historic Penn Center
To explore the parables of Jesus in the Gullah translation of the Bible using four art forms, in order to enhance the discipleship, prayer and worship of four congregations.
Beloved Community Church
To facilitate intergenerational worship by gathering mothers to collaboratively create worship practices for use in both corporate worship and in the home.
First Missionary Baptist Church
To engage all generations in the singing and study of hymns in order to increase worshipers' awareness of God in daily Christian living.
Seabury Resources for Aging (2020)
To create and pilot participatory intergenerational worship resources that facilitate collaborative worship in a variety of contexts.
Trinity Church Northborough
To explore and experiment with different formats of intergenerational worship in order to foster cross-generational community and deeper connection with God.
Central Christian Church
To strengthen and deepen worshipers’ experience of God by engaging the Psalms through prayer, study, contemplation, service and the arts.
St John's Episcopal Church
To explore practices of worship that facilitate engagement across generations, particularly focused on breaking down barriers that keep the unaffiliated from engaging the church.
Trinity Baptist Church
To educate the community and congregation regarding the rich heritage of the African-American worship experience in order to cultivate intergenerational unity.
Ttokamsa Mission Church
To discover and implement worship practices that bring together previously age-segregated generations in five Korean-American immigrant churches.