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 Education/Leadership Preaching

Faith Mennonite Church

To equip lay leaders by hosting workshops that broaden understanding of what preaching can be in an intergenerational and hybrid worship context in order to expand leaders’ repertoire of meaningful ways of engaging with scripture to facilitate spiritual growth.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Leamington, ontario
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Formation Visual Arts

Fifth Reformed Church

To help people rest and reflect more deeply in God by creating opportunities for communal  contemplation of God’s love and presence in the world through engagement with nature and the creative arts.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Grand Rapids, michigan
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Formation Visual Arts

First Baptist Church of Longmont

To deepen our congregation's appreciation for the grand narrative of God’s saving work by studying eight major acts of God in the Bible and collectively creating artwork that depicts the Bible’s overarching story.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Longmont, colorado
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Collaboration Formation

First Baptist Church of McMinnville

To deepen connections between worshipers and to encourage a practice of recognizing the sacred in all of life by centering corporate worship and home groups on practices of shared attention, communal creation, and joyful expression.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
McMinnville, oregon
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Intergenerational

First Presbyterian Church of Tonawanda

To deepen scriptural engagement and foster intergenerational worship by inviting congregation members of all ages to share their personal faith stories through various storytelling methods. 

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Tonawanda, new york
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Work and 91ÁÔÆæ

Fort Garry Evangelical Mennonite Church

To commission worshipers for the ministry of daily life through creating a testimony installation that bears witness to the congregation's ministry of work in the world and through offering spiritual training for vocational leaders.

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

Freedom Outreach International

To facilitate worship and learning opportunities centered around the sacraments of baptism and eucharist to help multicultural and multigenerational families in the local community become grounded in their faith.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Spring Hill, tennessee
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Education/Leadership

Fuller Seminary, Center for Asian American Theology and Ministry

To deepen the capacity of Asian American pastors for worship and congregational leadership in their cultural contexts by offering a nine-month learning cohort for pastors.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Pasadena, california
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Music Trauma/Mental Health

Fuller Theological Seminary

To support and diversify our ministry to those struggling with mental health by working with psychologists, theologians, ministers, therapists, worship leaders, and artists to create prayers and songs for the worship context that acknowledge and express experiences of psychological suffering.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Pasadena, california
2024
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91ÁÔÆæing Communities Education/Leadership Formation

Fuller Theological Seminary: Division of Formation

To equip leaders to create a pilgrimage experience in their own context by together engaging the embodied experience of pilgrimage and developing worship resources for their communities out of that experience.

91ÁÔÆæing Communities
Pasadena, california
2024
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