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 Liturgy Music

Anabaptist 91ÁÔÆæ 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.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Elkhart, indiana
2022
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Teacher-Scholar Visual Arts

Calvin University

James K.A. Smith

To prepare an essay that explores how contemporary visual and literary art fosters contemplative habits, an inviting 'preamble' to spiritual contemplation involved in both personal and communal liturgical practices.

Teacher-Scholar
Grand Rapids, michigan
2022
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Visual Arts

City Chapel (2022)

To engage the beauty of art in worship in order to awaken our understanding and imagination of what it means to care for God’s created world.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2022
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Visual Arts

First Presbyterian Church of Holt

To invite worshipers into reflection on traditions of liturgical art that facilitates engagement with wonder and the beauty of God, culminating in the collaborative creation of paraments for the worship space.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Holt, michigan
2022
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Liturgy Visual Arts

Holy Cross Lutheran Church (2022)

To deepen, enrich, and connect the individual and corporate worship life of congregants by drawing on the devotional practices of the saints throughout history in aesthetically rich and cohesive worship experiences that have corresponding practices which engage the senses and foster embodied devotional practices at home.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
St. Louis, missouri
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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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Liturgy Visual Arts

United Presbyterian Church of Walton

To foster ecumenical connections among twelve churches by participating in the creation of pottery to form the faith of worshipers as the theological imagery of God as the potter whose hands continue to mold and reform is carried into the worship of each church and into ecumenical worship gatherings.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Walton, new york
2022
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Teacher-Scholar Visual Arts

Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS)

Rebecca Slough

To explore how the spatial and visual dimensions of congregational worship shape diverse Anabaptist communities, in order to create resources that facilitate culturally-informed reflection on visual arts in worship and to curate visual art resources for use in Anabaptist worship. 

Teacher-Scholar
Elkhart, indiana
2021
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Visual Arts

Cardiphonia, a department of Artists in Christian Testimony Intl.

To curate art and liturgy into an experience of Stations of the Resurrection that will promote a deeper engagement with the season of Eastertide and the grace of Christ's resurrection.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Brentwood, tennessee
2021
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