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 Intergenerational Youth

Black Mountain Presbyterian Church

To engage the entire congregation, through a retread and study, in a discussion of Reformed worship with the intent of constructing new forms of worship which will be meaningful and attractive to the entire congregation, especially to young families.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Black Mountain, north carolina
2002
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Youth

Children At 91ÁÔÆæ Inc

To teach congregations the fundamentals of designing the worship life of a community that include people of all ages, particularly children and youth, in ways that are engaging, participatory and meaningful.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Rochester, new york
2002
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Music Youth

First Christian Reformed Church

To renew interest in the use of the pipe organ in worship by conducting workshops for children and youth to introduce them to the organ, workshops for organists, offering a hymn festival and initiating a scholarship program for youth who wish to take organ lessons.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Sioux Center, iowa
2002
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Youth

Jacksonville Campus Ministry

To create and implement campus worship services using a process that facilitates communication between students and faculty, integrates clerical and student/lay leaders in ministry and achieves a deeper understanding of the biblical foundations for worship.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Jacksonville, florida
2002
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Youth

New City Church

To create an urban school of worship for teenagers, which will develop individual worship leaders and musicians and forge them into teams to lead worship for teen peers on Friday nights, for smaller children on Saturday and for supporting churches on Sunday.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Jersey City, new jersey
2002
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Education/Leadership Youth

Seattle Pacific University (2002)

To develop curricular and training materials, courses, workshops, and programs to enhance the musical and theological training of young adults engaged in the leadership of contemporary worship services.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Seattle, washington
2002
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Multicultural Music

Suydam St. Reformed Church

To enhance and promote an integrative worship experience in a worshiping community that is bilingual and bicultural, worshiping in both Spanish and English and many diverse styles. Training will be provided for writing and arranging music; liturgies, songs, hymns, and other worship materials will be translated; children's worship will be enhanced and a two-day conference on "integrative worship" will be offered.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
New Brunswick, new jersey
2002
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Youth

Alliance Evangelical Friends Church

To develop a series of worships for worship leaders and children to develop a philosophy of worship for children's worship and age appropriate activities for sue in children's worship ministries

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Alliance, ohio
2001
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Youth

Calvary Memorial United Methodist Church

To host a Liturgical Arts Festival - a worship in worship ministry for children, youth and adult worship leaders where adults will empower young people in the planning and implementation of meaningful worship experiences, and local churches will find new ways to share in worship ministry.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Snow Hill, north carolina
2001
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Youth

Wedgwood Christian Youth and Family Services

To provide a comprehensive review of worship programming for youth so that they encounter God in worship, and to train youth and staff in a deeper understanding of worship

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2001
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