1855 Knollcrest Circle SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 USA

On the campus of Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary
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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.
To develop comprehensive training in music and liturgical planning for musicians, worship teams and congregations in Hispanic churches.
To encourage the use and appreciation of multicultural music and liturgy in the worship services of four Lutheran and Reformed congregations located in a multicultural neighborhood through the development of a congregational/ecumenical model for worship renewal.
To educate a parish and other diocesan congregations about worship rituals and the liturgical life of their communities during a cathedral renovation project
To collaborate with neighboring religious institutions to form an increased awareness of the relationship between private spiritually and public discipleship through a Lenten Vesper Series
To provide vision for and promote engagement in ecumenical worship through a series of planned worship services and other events.
To offer a Liturgy Summer Camp to provide a basic understanding of liturgy to lay persons in Michigan and Ohio
A liturgy training program for lay people in six rural/small town Presbyterian congregations in southwestern Ontario
To effect greater immediacy in worship for worshipers by combining research on the church calendar and worship planning around the liturgical year
To provide opportunities in the research, writing and dramatic presentation of lectionary texts through Project AWE. Arts in 91ÁÔÆæ Experiece
To sponsor a Liturgy Summer Camp for adults and young adults to provide basic liturgical understanding to lay leaders in congregations in Michigan and Ohio
