CICW has awarded Vital 91, 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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91ing Communities Spanish-language Music

Mission United Presbyterian Church

To equip a new generation of worship leaders with musical skills and vocal techniques to foster the creation of worship experiences that connect with and reach out to people from the surrounding community.  

91ing Communities
San Francisco, california
2023
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Restauración Los Ángeles

To develop a new generation of church musicians and worship leaders who, in addition to typical roles, could acquire skills required to compose new congregational songs and to produce new worship music. 

91ing Communities
Los Angeles, california
2023
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St. Gregory’s Hall Sacred Music Program

To encourage multisensory worship and a deeper appreciation for the incarnational nature of the Christian faith by creating a sacred music program that includes instruction on the theology of worship, special music in festival liturgies, and a retreat.

91ing Communities
Chicago, illinois
2023
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St. John’s Abbey

To promote ecumenical worship and hymn singing by hosting multi-choir hymn festivals and offering organ lessons focused on creative hymn accompaniment.

91ing Communities
Collegeville, minnesota
2023
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91ing Communities Music Visual Arts

The Luke Church

To facilitate discipleship by deeply engaging the stories of Advent and Easter through multiple disciplines, including theology, personality, technology, and worship arts.

91ing Communities
Humble, texas
2023
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Women’s Sacred Music Project

To enrich worshipers’ understanding of God by curating a collection of new worship resources by, for, and about women that highlights marginalized perspectives and embraces a more mysterious image of the divine.

91ing Communities
Lafayette Hill, pennsylvania
2023
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Zoe Center

To facilitate deep engagement with scripture through song by gathering worship leaders, musicians, and pastors to study scripture and then write worship songs inspired by those scriptures.

91ing Communities
Whittier, california
2023
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91ing Communities Liturgy Music

Anabaptist 91 Network

To gather songwriters, poets, and artists to produce songs, prayers, art pieces, and videos that will resource and inspire under-resourced Anabaptist communities across North America.

91ing Communities
Elkhart, indiana
2022
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Teacher-Scholar Music Online Resources

Hope College

David Keep

To deepen worshipers' theology and spiritual life by creating an online Advent calendar that features visual art and music, and by holding art interpretation events and panel discussions in which participants engage theological truths—particularly the incarnation—through the arts.

Teacher-Scholar
Holland, michigan
2022
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