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 Visual Arts

Home Street Mennonite Church

To strengthen intergenerational bonds, nurture creativity, and connect with the surrounding community through creating neighborhood public art inspired by scripture. 

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Winnipeg, manitoba
2025
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Missional Visual Arts

Resurrection Philadelphia

To foster robust and nuanced dialogue inside and outside the church, to cultivate generous and durable habits of patience and mercy, and to help recover concern for neighbors through artist commissions, group study, writing, conversation, hospitality, and friendships related to the topic of shalom.  

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Philadelphia, pennsylvania
2025
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Visual Arts

Southeast Raleigh Table 

To grow in experiences and understanding of embodied worship by encouraging movement, artistic expression, and creative exploration in worship. 

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Raleigh, north carolina
2025
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Visual Arts

St. Moses Church 

To strengthen an emerging group of creatives by fostering community, deepening theological understanding of creativity and faith, and encouraging vibrant artistic expressions of worship. 

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Baltimore, maryland
2025
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Liturgy Music

Bellwether Arts

To deepen engagement with Jesus’ teachings by creating songs, liturgies, and visual artwork in response to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount for use in congregational worship and art-making events.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Brentwood, tennessee
2024
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Teacher-Scholar Collaboration Music

Bethel Univeristy

Becki Graves

To celebrate the diversity of Christianity through exploring the contemplative, Holiness, Evangelical, social justice, charismatic, and incarnational expressions of the Church as part of the process of creating original artistic, poetic, and musical stations of the cross to share in local churches.

Teacher-Scholar
Mishawaka, indiana
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Liturgy Music

Church of the Cross

To more deeply engage with the arts in worship by commissioning artists to lead the community in creating different art forms to facilitate worship throughout the liturgical year.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Boston, massachusetts
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Drama/Dance Visual Arts

Disciples Christian Church

To deepen congregants’ spiritual engagement in worship and to build bridges between the congregation and community though engagement with visual arts and dance, especially with artists who use the church building.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Cleveland Heights, ohio
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Formation Visual Arts

Fifth Reformed Church

To help people rest and reflect more deeply in God by creating opportunities for communal  contemplation of God’s love and presence in the world through engagement with nature and the creative arts.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Formation Visual Arts

First Baptist Church of Longmont

To deepen our congregation's appreciation for the grand narrative of God’s saving work by studying eight major acts of God in the Bible and collectively creating artwork that depicts the Bible’s overarching story.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Longmont, colorado
2024
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