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 Justice Liturgy

Board of World Mission

To create liturgical and educational resources that equip Moravian clergy and lay leaders to guide worshipers in connecting their faith with social justice.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Bethlehem, pennsylvania
2025
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Teacher-Scholar Justice Education/Leadership

Fuller Theological Seminary

Jennifer Ackerman

To study the impact arts-based training encouraging curiosity, creativity, and courage has on pastoral leadership to increase pastors' capacity to lead vibrant, justice-oriented communities of worship.

Teacher-Scholar
Pasedena, california
2024
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Teacher-Scholar Justice Public Witness

Howard University School of Divinity

Harold Dean Trulear

To explore and disseminate best practices for shaping and sustaining a Christian social justice witness through corporate worship.

Teacher-Scholar
Washington, district of columbia
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Anti-Racism Justice

Ravensworth Baptist Church

To decolonize worship life by auditing the liturgy, music, preaching, and sacred spaces of the church in order to fully live into the church’s commitment to antiracism and its mission of “Sharing Love, Doing Justice, and Building Community.”

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Annadale, virginia
2024
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Teacher-Scholar Formation Justice

University of Alabama

Courtney O’Grady

To invite Catholic school practitioners (PK–12) to engage in self-study and group discussion as a means of reckoning with racism, ableism, and other injustices in American Catholic school practices, and then to reimagine Catholic schools as inclusive and justice-oriented worshiping communities.

Teacher-Scholar
Tuscaloosa, alabama
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Justice Multicultural

Central Christian Church (2023)

To become a more hospitable and anti-racist church through training and reflection to deconstruct white-centered worship norms and by expanding the multiplicity of non-Eurocentric ways that we engage in worship.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Indianapolis, indiana
2023
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Education/Leadership Justice

Fellowship Center for Racial Reconciliation

To equip local church leaders to worship by letting “justice roll down” in their lives, by training cohort members to address structural racial disparities, and by developing a theological framework that highlights God’s desire for shalom and the advocacy for the oppressed found in scripture.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Monrovia, california
2023
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Teacher-Scholar Hermeneutics Justice

Fresno Pacific University

Amy Whisenand

To explore the relationship between singing and reconciliation in the church through hosting workshops for scriptural study, practice sharing, and collaboration.

Teacher-Scholar
Fresno, california
2023
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