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 Visual Arts

George Fox University

Sunggu A. Yang

To develop the practice of artistic-holistic preaching using examples from pottery, photography, Indigenous dancing, advertising, and poetry to offer innovative and practical resources for preaching education.

Teacher-Scholar
Newberg, oregon
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 Visual Arts

Grunewald Guild

To develop a cohort of artists that will affect the worshiping communities the artists belong to by exploring the sacred through creating visual art for worship together in online gatherings and an in-person retreat.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Leavenworth, washington
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Cultural Engagement Visual Arts

Holy Cross Lutheran Church (2024)

To invite worshipers into the depth and richness of God’s promises by weaving liturgy with the arts through collaborations with local artists for Advent, Lenten, Holy Week, and Pentecost services and through the development and dissemination of artistically inspired service plans.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
St. Louis, missouri
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Spanish-language Visual Arts

Iglesia Bautista de Metrópolis

To revitalize and transform the congregation’s spiritual life by redesigning public worship services and integrating visual arts, technology, relevant worship practices, and contextualized preaching.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
San Juan, puerto rico
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Congregational Life Drama/Dance

Metropolitan AME Church

To engage congregants and the community in worship experiences outside of traditional Sunday services through workshops and small-group worship experiences that incorporate music and the visual and performing arts.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Washington, district of columbia
2024
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Teacher-Scholar Formation Visual Arts

Point University

Jennifer Allen Craft

To help Christians recognize and confess how sin distorts our relationship to place and hinders our ability to love our neighbors, and to help the church develop artistic practices of placemaking that advance the kingdom of God by promoting justice, beauty, and connection.

Teacher-Scholar
West Point, georgia
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Liturgy Visual Arts

Reconciliation Anglican Church

To integrate ancient liturgy and prayer with expressions of worship such as art, meal sharing, and communal serviceso as to strengthen connections between gathered worship and daily life.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Bellingham, washington
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Collaboration Visual Arts

Ruakh Arts

To help churches and artists learn to collaborate with each other more effectively through an artist-in-residence program that will help worshipers connect more deeply with God, scripture, and one another through the arts.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Ashland, virginia
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Missional Visual Arts

St. Andrew Presbyterian Church (2024)

To deepen worshipers' experience of the beauty and majesty of God in this church's unique space by engaging with the stories of the art glass windows lining the worship space.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Sun City Center, florida
2024
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