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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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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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Liturgy

Diocese of Rupert’s Land

To inspire a renewed love of Anglican worship through educational programming and retreats that explore how beauty and poetry reveal God’s truth. 

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Winnipeg, manitoba
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Intergenerational Liturgy

General Conference of the Brethren in Christ

To develop a dynamic intergenerational worship resource guide for Brethren in Christ U.S. congregations that promotes meaningful worship practices that reflect BIC values, theology, and mission. 

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Mechanicsburg, pennsylvania
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Creation Care Liturgy

Luther House, Lutheran Campus Ministry at Oregon State University

To create opportunities for students to find community and a space to explore their faith through dinner church, pilgrimage, and retreats that empower student leaders to craft liturgy that speaks to their lived experience in a culture with a broken relationship with creation.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Corvallis, oregon
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Congregational Life Liturgy

Mount Olive Lutheran Church

To cultivate holy curiosity about what God is doing in the world and in the lives of fellow congregants by connecting our story with God’s story through retreats, guest presenters, and the crafting of new liturgies. 

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Rochester, minnesota
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Liturgy Technology

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.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Hutchinson, minnesota
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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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Liturgy Visual Arts

Reconciliation Anglican Church

To integrate ancient liturgy and prayer with expressions of worship such as art, meal sharing, and communal serviceso as to strengthen connections between gathered worship and daily life.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Bellingham, washington
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Formation Liturgy

Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas Office for 91ÁÔÆæ

To create a formation program on liturgy, theology, and musicianship that equips and encourages Spanish-speaking parish musicians and music ministers.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Dallas, texas
2024
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Teacher-Scholar Liturgy Trauma/Mental Health

Saint Paul University

Sarah Kathleen Johnson

To facilitate healing and ethical responses to public crises by studying the unintended consequences of ritual responses to mass shootings, the enduring legacy of colonialism, and climate disasters. 

Teacher-Scholar
Ottawa, ontario
2024
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