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 Music

The Tapestry Mundy Park

To cultivate and nurture intergenerational discipleship through creative arts and songwriting workshops that will result in artwork in the sanctuary and original songs that tell the redemptive story from Genesis to Revelation.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Coquitlam, british columbia
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Education/Leadership Music

The United Church of Canada

To develop a worship community resource and learning platform with theologically sound, justice-rooted resources for congregational singing, bolstered by in-person learning events and educational video projects connecting congregational song to strong discipleship.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Toronto, ontario
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Liturgy Sacraments

Together in 91ÁÔÆæ

To deepen worshipers’ understanding of being a baptismal community by creating liturgical resources in celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of the Anabaptist tradition.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Winnipeg, manitoba
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Liturgy Multicultural

Toronto Formosan Presbyterian Church

To create liturgical resources for a multicultural, multilingual, and multigenerational congregation so this Asian-Canadian congregation can encounter the triune God through words and music.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Toronto, ontario
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Education/Leadership

Truth’s Table Foundation

To support Black Christian women’s holistic worship by deepening the connection between doxology, orthodoxy, and orthopraxy through a conference for worship and an accompanying mentorship cohort.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Hermitage, tennessee
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Visual Arts

Village Church

To inspire the prophetic imagination of worshipers and to promote appreciation for God’s gift of beauty through the creation of an artist-in-residence program. 

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Beaverton, oregon
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Formation Sacraments

Westminster Presbyterian Church (2024)

To build Christ-centered unity amid a fractured and polarized society by teaching about and promoting shared foundational Christian practices, including the sacraments, the Lord’s Prayer, and the engagement of scripture.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Waterloo, iowa
2024
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