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 Music

Concordia Seminary (2024)

To improve public understanding of worship and foster greater appreciation for the gospel message through hosting a series of educational musical events centered on how the church's songs are windows into faith.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
St. Louis, missouri
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Multicultural Music

Covenant Presbyterian Church of Athens

To promote inclusion of African Christians in multiethnic churches in the United States through documentation and teaching of the oral tradition of African Christian choruses.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Athens, georgia
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Creation Justice Liturgy

Creation Justice Ministries

To strengthen the connection between Christian worship and creation justice by producing worship songs and liturgical resources that encourage deeper love for and connection to God's creation through public worship.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Washington, district of columbia
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Music Trauma/Mental Health

Fuller Theological Seminary

To support and diversify our ministry to those struggling with mental health by working with psychologists, theologians, ministers, therapists, worship leaders, and artists to create prayers and songs for the worship context that acknowledge and express experiences of psychological suffering.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Pasadena, california
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Missional Music

Grace and St John's Episcopal Church

To strengthen public worship and witness by building capacity in the music ministry, instituting a public worship event, and creating an outdoor mural.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
New Haven, connecticut
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Education/Leadership Music

Innovative Literacy Solutions

To train children and youth in understanding of worship and in worship skills, including media technology and leading music, to equip them to lead worship at Lighthouse Full Life Center.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Education/Leadership Music

Moravian Music Foundation

To make new worship music resources of all styles accessible to worshipers globally by creating an online worship community that participates in training workshops, fosters the creation of new music, and provides access to a  variety of worship resources.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Winston-Salem, north carolina
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Missional Music

New Hope Presbyterian Church

To promote spiritual healing and renewal, cultural expression, and deeper connection between the congregation and the broader community through the development of a weekly gospel jazz worship service. 

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Orange, california
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Drama/Dance Music

New Roots AME Church

To cultivate practices of embodied worship that reflect the diversity of the congregation and the surrounding community to deepen capacity for communal embodied worship.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Dorchester, massachusetts
2024
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Teacher-Scholar Intercultural Music

Princeton Theological Seminary

Hyun Woo Kim

To empower Asian American churches to embrace their cultural heritage, reconcile intergenerational differences, and re-envision worship in ways that reflect their congregants’ diverse identities and experiences by integrating Asian cultural elements into Western hymnody and worship frameworks.

Teacher-Scholar
Princeton, new jersey
2024
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