1855 Knollcrest Circle SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 USA

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 promote healthy spiritual formation for Korean American youth and young adults in New England through resource development, worship retreats, and spiritual formation discipleship cohorts.
To translate and publish a hymnal of bilingual Kreyol-English songs for use by new Haitian-Americans and neighboring church communities as a way to welcome and embrace one another through congregational song.
To create bilingual (Spanish/English) liturgies and music from and for Latino people, especially in the Lutheran tradition, that respect and honor the Latino cultures present in the congregation.
To empower and train church members to create and record bilingual songs and liturgical resources for Lent, Holy Week, Easter, and Pentecost.
To create and implement a model of bilingual worship that will foster church unity among worshipers from different generations.
To train church leaders to develop fully bilingual worship services, Bible studies, small group meetings, and church school.
To develop training workshops in the arts to educate the congregation on the meaning of integral worship and to develop practical workshops on music and singing for worship leaders to enhance bilingual public worship.
To enhance our bilingual worship service experience to impact our local church family and the online community, becoming a multicultural church.
To unite two congregations in mutual partnership by facilitating full engagement in music, arts, and sacraments through bilingual worship.
To unify churches who share a common neighborhood by implementing ecumenical and contextual worship that meets the needs of the community.
To build relationships between English-speaking and Spanish-speaking congregations by worshiping together and sharing stories of each community’s religious and cultural traditions.
To explore the transcultural, contextual, and cross-cultural nature of music and art in the liturgy in order to promote a welcoming and inclusive worship experience.
