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Worship Grants and the Christian Reformed Church 
The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, through its Worship Renewal Grants Program, has been pleased to support worship renewal in the following congregations and organizations of the Christian Reformed Church. This list is drawn from our comprehensive listing of grants awarded, which includes grants to congregations and organizations in over 30 denominations in 40 states and provinces.
Ada Christian School, Ada, Michigan (2000)
To create a program for teaching students and teachers the elements of worship, and modeling those elements in informal and formal worship services.
Akron Christian Reformed Church, Akron, Ohio (2002)
To develop music and visual arts for the liturgical year which will encourage and inspire creativity in small congregations with limited resources.
Alamosa Christian Reformed Church, Alamosa, Colorado (2004)
To explore through study and a seminar how we use our hearts (emotions), our heads (intellect), and our hands (service) in an active way as we gather to worship as the Body of Christ.
All Nations Christian Reformed Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia (2000)
To develop and publish a worship resource manual for intergenerational worship services that more fully integrate youth into the worship life of congregations.
All Nations Christian Reformed Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia (2003)
To train lay leaders in understanding and communicating Scripture through workshops in several churches, so that Scripture might be integrated into worship in meaningful ways.
All Nations Christian Reformed Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia (2004)
To develop a set of liturgies for the seasons of Lent and Eastertide, use them in worship, study them with a range of fellow congregants, and prepare them for dissemination to a broader audience.
Bethany Christian Services, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2004)
To identify the most important spiritual needs of adolescents in residential treatment programs, to develop worship utilizing music, art, drama and design which addresses those needs, and to develop a training module for staff and volunteers who lead worship in residential treatment settings.
Bethany Church, Muskegon, Michigan (2008)
To form multigenerational, multicultural teams in which participants can explore how their gifts can be used in worship through music and the arts.
Bethel Christian Reformed Church, Fulton, Illinois (2008)
To explore the role of visual arts in making the Lord’s Supper and Baptism more meaningful by giving attention to the church year in corporate worship and small group discussions.
Bridge Community Church, Langley, British Columbia (2006)
To explore contemplation, outreach, hospitality, unity and leadership in worship through monthly seminars for the congregation and community.
Campus Chapel of Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan (2003)
To develop student worship leaders, increase understanding of worship among the membership, and enrich the visual dimension of worship through installations for the seasons of the church year.
Campus Chapel of Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan (2004)
To train students in leading congregational singing, presenting liturgy and Scripture and performing drama during services.
To deepen corporate confession and lament during services in Advent and Lent with images, music and movement.
Cascade Fellowship Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2003)
To conduct workshops in biblical storytelling that will provide skills for telling stories in worship and for use in family devotions.
Christian Reformed Home Missions (2007)
To develop worship resources and support for prisoners in both understanding and participating in worship by forming relationships between six West Michigan congregations (CRC and RCA) and worshiping communities in prisons.
City Hope Ministries, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2006)
To learn about worship and develop practical and innovative resources for worship which use the unique and varied gifts of four diverse congregations.
Continuing Education Committee of (Christian Reformed Church) Classis Heartland and Iakota, Sioux Center, Iowa (2002)
To sponsor two two-day conferences which will focus on worship in the Reformed tradition and create a context in which churches can discuss worship.
Cornerstone Prison Church, Worthing, South Dakota (2007)
To encourage deeper participation in the worship of prison congregations by teaching prisoners how to develop drama, lament, prayer, poetry, and music.
Covenant Christian Reformed Church, Appleton, Wisconsin (2002)
To host Worship and the Visual Arts, a conference to explore the theology of integrating visual arts with congregational worship, especially in the small church.
Covenant Life Church (Christian Reformed), Grand Haven, Michigan (2003)
To develop a process of worship renewal within the congregation by training worship leaders, by deepening the practices of prayer and the reading of Scripture in worship, and by commissioning inner city youth to create art for worship. The project will also offer monthly worship services employing all the senses and actively involving the congregation.
Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa (2002)
To enhance the understanding and practice of worship on the college campus through 2 conferences and a series of monthly meetings to learn about and reflect on the principles of biblical worship.
Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa (2003)
To develop a process for worship renewal by linking worship, education, and the mission of the college.
Fellowship Christian Reformed Church, Edmonton, Alberta (2008)
To study and evaluate past worship practices and create new liturgies that practice inclusivity, collaboration, creativity, and social justice and that encourage the gifts of musicians, artists, dancers, children, writers, and persons with disabilities.
First Christian Reformed Church, Denver, Colorado (2004)
To explore with all generations the various ways, including reading, drama, visuals and song, that scripture is presented in the call to worship, assurance and sermon text.
First Christian Reformed Church, Hamilton, Ontario (2007)
To create a sense of narrative, memory, and time by focusing on the practices of lectio divina, prayer, study, and service through a series of workshops and collaborative projects on using word and image in worship.
First Christian Reformed Church, Salt Lake City, Utah (2005)
To equip area church choirs to lead worship spiritually and musically within their respective churches through a year-long process that will include a weekend of workshops, rehearsals, and worship.
First Christian Reformed Church, Sioux Center, Iowa (2002)
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.
First Christian Reformed Church, Vancouver, British Columbia (2001)
To compose songs based on scripture, catechism, creeds, and the Contemporary Testimony for use in worship.
Grace Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2006)
To introduce liturgical dance and movement into worship in their racially, economically and educationally diverse urban congregation.
Grace Fellowship Christian Reformed Church, Pella, Iowa (2004)
To develop a collaborative, intergenerational visual arts project with adults, youth and children to create art for worship, and to share these projects with the community through a seminar.
Granite Springs Christian Reformed Church, Rocklin, California (2001)
To conduct a series of five teaching sessions, concluding with a two-day retreat for worship planners and songwriters on the use of the Psalms in worship and to compose new psalm settings.
Granite Springs Church, Lincoln, California (2006)
To saturate their new congregation with a rhythm of Bible memorization that supports spiritual formation and an integration of scripture into every aspect of the worship service with attention to multigenerational participation.
Granite Springs Church, Lincoln, California (2008)
To immerse the congregation in the Psalms through regular reading and memorization of the Psalms, a retreat, preaching, and pastoral care education that will teach people to pray all the emotions expressed in the Psalms.
Hessel Park Christian Reformed Church, Champaign, Illinois (2002)
To create visual materials for worship and develop skills in worship and music leaders for integrating contemporary and traditional hymnody in university-oriented congregations.
Hillside Community Church, Calgary, Alberta (2006)
To develop the connection between worship and discipleship through engaging people of varying degrees of spiritual experience in fundamental worship activities and concepts.
Holland Home, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2003)
To develop and pilot a hospitable worship model for persons with mid- to late stage dementia. Based on their learning, they will prepare a handbook presenting the concepts and rationale for planning worship experiences and activities for persons with dementia living in a residential unit. The project also includes workshops, training sessions, and a one-day conference for worship leaders.
Hope Centre Christian Reformed Church (Hopelink), Winnipeg, Manitoba (2001)
To sponsor "Enlarging the Circle," a three-day, cross-disability conference on inclusive worship.
Hope Network, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2004)
To prepare ten congregations from a wide range of Christian traditions to include persons with physical and mental disabilities through seminars, training and consultation with clergy and lay leaders, and to assist them in developing a congregational plan for the intentional inclusion of these persons in worship, fellowship, education, service and justice activities.
Immanuel Christian Reformed Church, Brampton, Ontario (2003)
To offer leadership training for Immanuel and neighboring churches that will include workshops, resources, and worship planning and evaluation experiences for musicians, readers, worship teams, worship planners and dramatists.
Jubilee Fellowship Christian Reformed Church, St. Catharines, Ontario (2002)
To sponsor an arts conference to broaden the experience of the arts in worship in southern Ontario churches by actively involving conference participants in the process of developing the arts for worship.
Jubilee Fellowship Christian Reformed Church, St. Catharines, Ontario (2003)
Sponsor a two-day conference on worship and the arts.
Kelloggsville Christian School, Kelloggsville, Michigan (2000)
To create a program for teaching students and teachers the elements of worship, and modeling those elements in informal and formal worship services.
LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2005)
To investigate and implement ways in which participation in formal worship can be made increasingly accessible to children and youth.
Maple Avenue Ministries, Holland, Michigan (2008)
To study and reflect on the nature of worship and the use of visual and dramatic arts, music, poetry and liturgy in the celebration of the Lord’s Supper in order to break barriers of perceived differences in age, race, ethnicity, theology, accustomed worship style and socio-economic status.
Monroe Community Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2004)
To explore Old Testament worship as a guide for understanding worship elements and to gain a depth of understanding of our own covenant renewal in worship.
New City Church, Jersey City, New Jersey (2003)
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.
New City Church, Jersey City, New Jersey (2008)
To research, experience, and reflect on using hip-hop in worship while nurturing urban teenagers as worship leaders.
New England Chapel, Franklin, Massachusetts (2004)
To create an intergenerational service to help people experience and express God living and working through all life stages by exploring new ways of leading people of all ages in worship together.
New Life Christian Reformed Church, Grand Junction, Colorado (2004)
To develop an intergenerational study of confession and assurance of pardon through the lens of baptism and the Lord's Supper, which will include a Lenten/Easter devotional series with participation from all ages and worship services focusing on scriptural images for the sacraments.
North Shore Chapel, Danvers, Massachusetts (2004)
To develop elements of worship that will foster communion with God and moments of transcendent experience for worshipers by focusing on sacred space, worship education, a midweek worship service, and creativity and arts in worship and music.
Pathway Ministries, Byron Center, Michigan (2008)
To partner with other small congregations to explore the ways congregational song can help worshipers grow by connecting music in church and at home.
Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario (2003)
To develop a process for worship renewal by linking worship, education, and the mission of the college.
Reformed Bible College, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2003)
To assess current worship services, events and courses at the college, and to explore ways to offer diverse worship services built on a biblical foundation of worship.
Rehoboth Christian Reformed Church, Rehoboth, New Mexico (2007)
To develop resources with the Christian Navajo community that reflect the contextual use of the Psalms in the liturgy, drama, music and art of worship in Native American culture.
Rehoboth Red-Mesa Foundation, Rehoboth, New Mexico (2002)
To develop workshops at the Cottonwood Pass Bible Conference, an 80-year-old annual gathering for Native American Christians in New Mexico, that will lead to the development of music and visual art for worship that are Biblical and contextualized within Native American culture.
River Rock Church, Folsom, California (2004)
To equip worship leaders and planners to become more thoughtful, intentional and hospitable in the practice and instruction of the dialogic nature in worship, and to help all worshipers better understand the liturgical elements of and patterns within worship.
Second Christian Reformed Church, Grand Haven, Michigan (2006)
To explore the creative use of the existing worship space as well as to define and expand the usage of that space through intergenerational study and dialogue on worship.
Second Christian Reformed Church, Lynden, Washington (2004)
To build a sense of unity across generations by focusing on renewal and grace during Lent and community outreach during Eastertide, through retreats and a series of worship services which incorporate teachings, music, drama, visual arts, liturgical dance, and particular times of prayer.
Shawnee Park Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2006)
To empower young people to add rhythm, melody, and harmony to familiar and favorite Scripture passages with the goal of incorporating the resulting music in weekly worship services.
Sherman Street Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2006)
To collaborate as a group of pastors and youth leaders in urban Grand Rapids to learn about the dynamics of worship in relationship to urban youth and hip hop and to explore the possibilities of incorporating their discoveries into the wider worshiping body.
South Bend Christian Reformed Church, South Bend, Indiana (2002)
To provide workshops and discussions that will assist the congregation in designing, placing and dedicating a baptismal font, a table and a pulpit in their new sanctuary.
South Grandville Christian Reformed Church, Grandville, Michigan (2007)
To deepen hospitality and community in worship through congregational workshops and training that will encourage intergenerational participation and leadership.
Sussex Christian Reformed Church, Sussex, New Jersey (2004)
To encourage active participation of worshipers of all ages particularly during the Gathering, through practical workshops and deliberate effort for varied leadership during worship.
The Gathering, Sacramento, California (2007)
To train worship leaders in music, arts and drama through workshops and the experience of implementing a series of services that focus on spiritual formation through worship.
The Good Shepherd Christian Reformed Church, Prospect Park, New Jersey (2002)
To develop comprehensive training in music and liturgical planning for musicians, worship teams and congregations in Hispanic churches.
The Good Shepherd Christian Reformed Church, Prospect Park, New Jersey (2006)
To partner with a nearby congregation to equip youth and adults to plan, lead and participate in worship through a study of Reformed worship, the varied global and historical expressions of Christian worship, and how these address the unique needs of a primarily Hispanic immigrant community.
The River, Whitinsville, Massachusetts (2006)
To train youth and children in planning, leading, and facilitating intergenerational worship services that integrate art, dance, drama, scripture, story, and song.
The River Community Church, Edmonton, Alberta (2004)
To develop a worship service series that focuses on exploring and encouraging "worship habits" (Vertical Habits) through multi-sensory, intergenerational experiences which help to cultivate a dynamic relationship with God.
Third Christian Reformed Church, Denver, Colorado (2003)
To research appropriate uses of technology in worship and to offer area churches a conference on using presentational technology wisely in worship.
Timothy Christian High School, Elmhurst, Illinois (2000)
To sponsor a worship conference and educational experience for high school students in Christian High Schools in the Midwest.
Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, Illinois (2003)
To develop a process for worship renewal by linking worship, education, and the mission of the college.
Unity Christian Reformed Church, Prinsburg, Minnesota (2006)
To learn about how the design of a worship space teaches, invites, inspires, and connects in order to foster versatile, multigenerational, mission-focused, biblical worship in a growing rural church.