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On the campus of Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary
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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.
To implement outdoor worship services designed to extend a ministry of hospitality to the community.
To explore practices of worship that facilitate engagement across generations, particularly focused on breaking down barriers that keep the unaffiliated from engaging the church.
To teach worshipers to engage art as an act of worship and to engage in Christian art-making, in order to better participate in the liturgy with body, mind, and soul.
To create a robust sending rite that empowers and commissions worshipers to engage God’s work in the world in their daily lives.
To develop in pastoral musicians skills for leading congregational singing that facilitate active participation and transformation in worshipers.
To initiate a contemplative worship service that celebrates the stories of worshipers and to provide training and coaching in storytelling.
To increase worshipers’ experience of the beauty of God by equipping churches with tools and with skilled leaders that will continue the rich tradition of chant, iconography, woodworking, and textiles in Orthodox worship.
To educate the community and congregation regarding the rich heritage of the African-American worship experience in order to cultivate intergenerational unity.
To discover and implement worship practices that bring together previously age-segregated generations in five Korean-American immigrant churches.
To deepen worshipers’ love of God and neighbor through disciplined improvisations of jazz in worship.
To develop spiritual habits in students in the context of worship in order to promote a sense of belonging, to deepen transformation, to encourage genuine fellowship, and to tell stories of transformation through the development of Christ-like patterns of living.
To extend the worshiping community to include those who are not physically present by exploring ways to faithfully worship in a digital world.
