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 Preaching

George Fox University

Sunggu A. Yang

To explore multidimensional preaching practices that meet listeners’ need to see, taste, feel, and even touch the compelling Word of the Triune God, resulting in a handbook to help preachers become more oriented to engaging contemporary listeners. 

Teacher-Scholar
Newberg, oregon
2023
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Teacher-Scholar Intercultural Liturgy

Knox College

Sarah Travis

To create and field-test a preaching and liturgical resource addressing reconciliation among Settler Canadians and Indigenous peoples for the Presbyterian Church in Canada, based on two Calls to Action from the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Teacher-Scholar
Toronto, ontario
2021
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Teacher-Scholar Preaching

University of Dallas

Carla Pezzia and Theodore James Whapham

To survey clergy and congregants regarding the state of homiletics in the Catholic church in order to support Catholic preachers in improving their homilies and leverage liturgical preaching to reconnect with disengaged congregants.   

Teacher-Scholar
Irving, texas
2021
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Teacher-Scholar Preaching

McCormick Theological Seminary

Lis Valle-Ruiz

To study digitally mediated worship and preaching practices as it relates to the embodied experience, presence, and active participation from the perspectives of the worshipers. 

Teacher-Scholar
Chicago, illinois
2020
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Teacher-Scholar Preaching Youth

Union Presbyterian Seminary

Richard Voelz

To create and field-test a workbook that will equip pastors to walk with adolescent preachers as they prepare to preach in public worship and other congregational contexts.

Teacher-Scholar
Richmond, virginia
2020
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Teacher-Scholar Historical Public Witness

Dominican House of Studies/Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception

Andrew Hofer, O.P.

To study seven early Christian preachers who model various aspects of "incarnational" preaching and produce a resource encouraging preachers to integrate public speech with all of life.

Teacher-Scholar
Washington, district of columbia
2019
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