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.
Wheat Street Baptist Church
To strengthen worshipers’ connection with God and with one another by integrating multisensory creative arts in worship
Asbury United Methodist Church
To foster intergenerational and multicultural engagement in worship in order to deepen worshipers’ connections to Scripture, one another, their community, and their history.
Church Music Ministry of Canada
To facilitate intergenerational faith formation in worship by creating spaces for learning and collaboration between pastors and lay leaders in ethnically and denominationally diverse congregations.
Seabury Resources for Aging
To implement a participatory intergenerational worship service in which worshipers engage Scripture through art, music, storytelling, and guided discussion.
Bethlen Home of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America
To cultivate young Christian leaders to mature in a life-long faith by empowering them with the skills and knowledge to lead intergenerational worship.
Carey Theological College (2017)
To unite persons of different generations in multilingual Chinese-Canadian churches by fostering collaboration between pastors and worship leaders and by strengthening intergenerational engagement with the Psalms.
Grace CRC
To foster intergenerational relationships by sharing faith stories while creating liturgical art.
Central Christian College of Kansas
To nurture ecumenical and intergenerational unity in the corporate worship and daily life of the college, connecting worship practices, spiritual formation, and Christian discipleship.
Central Presbyterian Church (2016)
To encourage members to experience the glory and beauty of God as expressed in creation and in creative playful activities that help them experience joy in worship and in the world around them.
End Time Apostolic Church
To collaborate with another church to explore worship for diverse ages, cultures and lifestyles, and foster a rich heritage of intergenerational worship practices.
First Baptist Church, McMinnville
To develop the congregational practice of storytelling and testimony in the context of an anniversary year, focused around God's blessing through both past forebears in faith and present church members.
First Christian Church, Whittier
To connect two different churches that use the same site by bringing them into worship together on feast and fast days, using music as a bridge to promote wholeness and healing.