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 Sacraments

Root and Branch Church

To build relationships around the table by exploring a dinner church format and by reflecting on Scripture to create new songs that represent this expression of worship.  

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Chicago, illinois
2019
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Liturgy Music

St. Giles Kingsway Presbyterian Church

To create a robust sending rite that empowers and commissions worshipers to engage God’s work in the world in their daily lives.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Toronto, ontario
2019
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Music Visual Arts

St. Philothea Greek Orthodox Church

To increase worshipers’ experience of the beauty of God by equipping churches with tools and with skilled leaders that will continue the rich tradition of chant, iconography, woodworking, and textiles in Orthodox worship.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Watkinsville, georgia
2019
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Music

Union Congregational United Church of Christ

To deepen worshipers’ love of God and neighbor through disciplined improvisations of jazz in worship.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Green Bay, wisconsin
2019
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Liturgy Music

Warwick United Church of Christ

To fully integrate the arts in the worship life of the church through collaboration among liturgists, musicians, and visual artists, in order to express and embody the attributes of God and the identity of worshipers’ as God’s beloved people.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Newport News, virginia
2019
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Liturgy Music

Brentwood Presbyterian Church

To deepen worshipers’ understanding of the triune God by engaging in and reflecting on the dynamism of jazz music in Christian liturgy.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Burnaby, british columbia
2018
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