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Worship Renewal Grant Recipients—Region Northeast United States

You can view posters displayed at Colloquium for grant recipients from the years 2003-2008. Click on the organization's name for an image of the poster. (You may need to zoom in to read the text on the poster.)

The following is a combined list of churches and organizations that received Worship Renewal Grants during the years 2000 - 2008. Sort the following list by State/Province

Albany Presbytery, Watervliet, New York To create ongoing inter-church planning teams that reflect on the lectionary and develop metaphors to use in visual media for worship.

Being Whole Community at Stony Point Center, Stony Point, New York To train worship leaders in opening worship to the leadership gifts of persons with disabilities through a conference and a year long process of learning with several congregations.

Believers Christian Fellowship Church, New York, New York To provide lunchtime and after work worship services and classes on Wall Street and in Harlem which encourage active participation of worshipers in reading scripture and leading worship and music through a multi-ethnic, multi-discipline collaborative effort.

Bethesda Lutheran Church, New Haven, Connecticut To conduct workshops that will explore the theology of worship space, the various aspects of worship, and the way the space in which we worship shapes our worship.

Bethlehem Church (Evangelical Free), Randolph, New Jersey To offer seminars and training for worship leaders in small or ethnic congregations, to plan and carry out joint worship with the participating congregations, and to create original artwork for worship.

Blooming Grove Reformed Church, Rensselaer, New York To sponsor a two-day conference on worship for small to mid size congregations.

Bridge of Peace Community Church, Camden, New Jersey To advance the development of lay worship leadership in a multicultural setting by training lay leaders, creating a model for worship leadership training that can be applied in other multicultural settings and offering congregational workshops on worship.

Bridge of Peace Community Church, Camden, New Jersey To seek new models of worship which provide a theological framework of multicultural worship in an urban context by offering Multicultural Worship Festivals and a worship conference.

Bridge Street African Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, New York To plan liturgies that lead congregants to bring peace, love, joy, justice and hope in the world through a collaboration between leaders and the congregation.

Bridge Street AME Church, Brooklyn, New York To explore creative uses of media and the arts in order to engage youth and encourage collaboration between youth and adults in planning worship.

Cathedral Church of St Paul/The Crossing, Boston, Massachusetts To offer a series of retreats, consultations, and worship services aimed at bringing together worship leaders and musicians for collaboration and reflection in an urban, multicultural, emerging worship community.

Children At Worship, Inc., Rochester, New York To teach congregations the fundamentals of designing the worship life of a community that include people of all ages, particularly children and youth, in ways that are engaging, participatory and meaningful.

Christ Church Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania To offer workshops for congregations throughout the Diocese of Pennsylvania that will help them become more aware of global Anglican resources and use them in creating liturgies that reflect the diversity within the churches.

Christians in the Visual Arts, Wenham, Massachusetts To reflect on the role of visual arts in worship as pairs of pastors and artists and to present the results of this collaborative learning to the broader body of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA), Wenham, Massachusetts To assist churches in incorporating liturgical arts by offering seminars and workshops, and by producing resources that disseminate these concepts to a broader audience.

Church of the Ascension, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania To reflect corporately on the meaning and purpose of worship, including worship designed for the emergent sub-culture, through a parish retreat and a diocesan-wide leadership workshop.

College Hill Reformed Presbyterian Church, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania To develop teaching materials on contemporary musical settings of the Psalms, with an emphasis on music from Africa and Latin America, and to make these available to the wider church community.

College Hill Reformed Presbyterian Church, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania To provide a forum for composers working on contemporary renderings of psalm texts and music, and to introduce these to worship leaders and the Geneva College worshiping community.

Community Baptist Church, Newport, Rhode Island To offer a series of workshops and small group gatherings to engage ministry leaders in worship planning that incorporates individual gifts and develops a creative arts ministry.

Community of Reconciliation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania To renew worship through a process of study, implementing new worship formats, evaluation and sharing with other similar congregations which are multicultural, interracial and intergenerational.

Congregación León de Judá, Boston, Massachusetts To organize a training, discipleship, and spiritual development program for local worship leaders which will gather worship leaders, pastors, artists, and presenters for monthly retreats to engage in prayer, song, theological/ministry reflection, learning, and artistic creation.

Congregación León de Judá, Boston, Massachusetts To sponsor a two-day regional conference on worship and the arts.

Congregación León de Judá, Boston, Massachusetts To offer a two-day regional conference and exhibit in worship and the arts for Hispanic churches, focusing on how the arts can be used effectively in worship and evangelism.

Corpus Christi Church, New York, New York To collaborate with neighboring religious institutions to form an increased awareness of the relationship between private spirituality and public discipleship through a Lenten Vesper Series.

Daylesford Abbey, Paoli, Pennsylvania To create works of art for five multicultural congregations under the direction of Nancy Chinn.

Delaware – Maryland Synod, Baltimore, Maryland To focus on biblical hospitality as a basis for inclusive worship that reflects diverse cultures through the collaboration of six local congregations.

Eliot Presbyterian Church, Lowell, Massachusetts To develop liturgy and multicultural worship so as to portray the congregation’s unity in a diverse community by considering language, dance, media, visual art, music, attitude, understanding, practice, leadership, and congregational participation.

Eliot Presbyterian Church, Lowell, Massachusetts To partner with International Christian Fellowship Ministry in introducing the musical and worship traditions of East Asians and Africans into their congregations as a means of outreach to other immigrants.

Eliot Presbyterian Church, Lowell, Massachusetts To include the prayer life of children, expand the use of testimonies in worship, and deepen the understanding of baptism and the Lord’s Supper to unite people of different cultures, generations and denominations while celebrating their diversity.

First African Methodist Episcopal Bethel Church, New York, New York To create and train intergenerational worship planning teams of congregational members and ministry leaders in the planning of liturgies, music, mime, dance and visual arts to engage and unite worshipers of all ages with particular attention to social justice.

First Congregational Church of North Attleborough, North Attleborough, Massachusetts To invite painters, woodworkers, sculptors, musicians, graphic artists and photographers of all ages to use their gifts in worship leadership through ongoing study, practice, workshops, and worship experiences.

First Presbyterian Church, Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania To develop The Jazz in Worship Project for creating new settings of congregational music that are fitting for Christian worship services and true to the jazz idiom.

First United Methodist Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania To design multi-sensory, interactive, communal worship experiences that bridge the church community with the diverse, emerging, post modern culture.

Good Shepherd Christian Reformed Church, Prospect Park, New Jersey 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.

Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts To develop a process for worship renewal by linking worship, education, and the mission of the college.

Grace Episcopal Church, Newton Corner, Massachusetts To engage children in worship by teaching them about their worship tradition, about scripture embodied in the three year cycle of readings and about the sacraments of Baptism and Eucharist.

Grace Episcopal Church, Newton Corner, Massachusetts To explore with children, youth and adults what it means to be a baptizing community by focusing on the ways baptism impacts worship, vocation, and outreach.

Grace United Methodist Church, Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania To explore the connection between worship and outreach by developing appropriate worship services that speak to three target groups—children and youth, seniors, and individuals in 12-step programs.

Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Kennebunk, Maine To design contemporary worship services that are planned collaboratively, are biblically based, proclaim the gospel through Word and Sacrament, and send people out to share God’s grace.

Houghton College, Houghton, New York To encourage full, active, conscious participation in worship by exploring a broad range of music that includes traditional and newer hymnody, fostering understanding and dialogue between those whose musical tastes are vastly different, deepening the understanding of the Trinity in worship, and matching the rhythm of worship with the liturgical calendar.

Jan Hus Presbyterian Church, New York, New York To study hospitality as a model for worship and missions through workshops and Bible studies with members of the three congregations who worship in the same sanctuary: Jan Hus, Indonesian Presbyterian Church, and St. John’s Independent Catholic Community.

Jordan United Church of Christ, Allentown, Pennsylvania To train youth to become active, mature leaders in worship through a year-long series of worship services that will incorporate their leadership and contributions in drama and music.

Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster, Pennsylvania To engage the pastor, choir director, organist, a member of the worship committee and a young adult from 10 small rural churches in Pennsylvania and Maryland in a year long process of learning about worship planning and congregational music that will include seminars and on-site consultations.

LOGOS System Associates, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania To explore resource materials and design a process for using and sharing them that will engage all ages in understanding parts of a worship service and in integrating their renewed appreciation of worship into congregational life.

LOGOS System Associates, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania To develop resources that engage all ages in understanding the parts of a worship service and integrate their renewed appreciation of worship into congregational life.

LOGOS System Associates, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania To develop a team of educators and pastors from various congregations and denominations to deepen their understanding of Christian worship, and to develop a plan that will help children comprehend and encounter the essence of Christian worship and the significance of what the parts of worship contribute to their spiritual experience.

LOGOS System Associates, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania To help children explore and experience worship through enhancing resources for children in worship and creating a framework to help congregations implement the resources.

Lower Susquehanna Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania To train and encourage parish musicians in small congregations by offering classes in the theological and liturgical foundations of worship and the development of musical skills.

Lower Susquehanna Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania To enhance the leadership of musicians in smaller congregations by offering training in musical, pastoral and leadership skills through the Leadership Program for Musicians Serving Small Congregations (LPM).

Lower Susquehanna Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania To initiate the Leadership Program for Musicians Serving Small Congregations to prepare persons to be capable and confident musical leaders.

Lower Susquehanna Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania To begin and nurture the adult catechumenal process in churches by the combination of a retreat, a worship service, and a one-day training session with follow-up consultations.

Lower Susquehanna Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania To begin and nurture the adult catechumenal process in churches by the combination of a retreat, a worship service, and a one-day training session with follow-up consultations.

Mayfield Central Presbyterian Church, Mayfield, New York To explore and reclaim liturgical dance in worship while helping two congregations experience and study the Vertical Habits.

Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania To develop a process for worship renewal by linking worship, education, and the mission of the college.

Metropolitan New Life Baptist Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts To host several one-day seminars for the congregation and the ecumenical community of Boston and Cambridge. Seminar topics include: The Theology of Worship, Exploring Theological Ideas in the Songs of Our Faith, and Reaching a Multi-Cultural Community through Worship.

Monmouth Bible Institute, Farmingdale, New Jersey To offer four workshops for pastors, musicians and church leaders on music and preaching, with special emphasis on the Christian Year and Revised Common Lectionary. By enriching worship leaders' understanding of worship and their skills in worship leadership, the congregation will better understand the role of scripture and music in worship.

Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania To study ways to renovate the sanctuary of a small urban church to meet current needs through the involvement of musicians, artists, architecture students, a professional architect, and the church’s congregation as well as permit architecture students to explore options for area churches with similar needs.

Neumann College, Aston, Pennsylvania To offer summer courses in liturgy and catechesis, a fall liturgy conference, and monthly campus Ministry Training days. These programs will encourage worship renewal on the college campus and in Catholic high schools and parishes throughout the area.

New City Church, Jersey City, New Jersey 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 To research, experience, and reflect on using hip-hop in worship while nurturing urban teenagers as worship leaders.

New England Chapel, Franklin, Massachusetts 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 Hope Lutheran Ministries, Vandergrift, Pennsylvania To enhance the worship of small member congregations in a liturgical tradition through seminars connecting experts in worship and congregational life with pastors, leaders, and members of these congregations.

New Hope Lutheran Ministries, Vandergrift, Pennsylvania To train youth to create and lead worship in music, proclamation, and liturgy and to help congregation members to more deeply appreciate the needs, concerns, and life of youth both in the church and the community.

North County Training Center, Watertown, New York To bring together church leaders in northern New York of various denominations and traditions to explore the Biblical foundations and expressions of corporate worship, and then to discuss what has been learned and share what each church has put into practice.

North Shore Chapel, Danvers, Massachusetts 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.

North Shore Medical Center, Salem, Massachusetts To study, create, implement and share innovative worship that engages patients, their families and staff within the hospital and connects with local congregations to expand pastoral care both in and out of the hospital.

Open Table of Christ United Methodist Church, Providence, Rhode Island To study the theology of worship and incorporate the wisdom and practices of the Northern European, Latino, African American, Haitian, Korean, and Liberian cultures from the community into worship planning to empower the leadership and unite the congregation.

Philadelphia Liturgical Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania To create an ecumenical team of liturgists who will mentor local parishes/congregations to reflect upon and develop their ritual focus, proclamation of the Word of God, preaching, clarity of the sacraments, music, architecture, art, and hospitality.

Philadelphia Liturgical Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania To sponsor a one-day conference on mystagogy of the Eucharist and a one-day ecumenical presentation on liturgical renewal.

Rutgers Community Christian Church, Belle Mead, New Jersey To plan and implement a seminar on music and worship to explore future directions for this and other Chinese-American congregations.

Skidmore College, Office of the Chaplain, Saratoga Springs, New York To engage college students through revitalization of a chapel program using the strengths of the liberal arts college—literature, poetry, studio art, music, theater, and dance—by providing instruction, inspiration, collaboration and materials for college students to connect their academic artistic endeavors with the worship life of the college chapel.

St. John’s United Church of Christ, Dunkirk, New York To explore the role of arts in worship through a series of workshops and book studies to encourage members of the congregation to become involved in worship planning and implement what has been learned.

Sussex Christian Reformed Church, Sussex, New Jersey To encourage active participation of worshipers of all ages particularly during the Gathering, through practical workshops and deliberate effort for varied leadership during worship.

Suydam St. Reformed Church, New Brunswick, New Jersey To enhance and promote an integrative worship experience in a worshipping community that is bilingual and bicultural, worshipping in both Spanish and English and many diverse styles. Training will be provided for writing and arranging music; liturgies, songs, hymns and other worship materials will be translated; children's worship will be enhanced and a two-day conference on "integrative worship" will be offered.

The College Church, Northampton, Massachusetts To develop skills and opportunities for artistic expression of scripture that will connect to sermons through lectures and educational workshops.

The Good Shepherd Christian Reformed Church, Prospect Park, New Jersey To develop comprehensive training in music and liturgical planning for musicians, worship teams and congregations in Hispanic churches.

The Outdoor Church of Cambridge, Lexington, Massachusetts To offer worship services and discussion of scripture led by clergy, congregation members and seminary students for homeless men and women, many of whom have substance abuse problems or are chronically mentally ill.

The River, Whitinsville, Massachusetts To train youth and children in planning, leading, and facilitating intergenerational worship services that integrate art, dance, drama, scripture, story, and song.

Trinity Episcopal Church, Rochester, New York To train congregants to tell both the biblical stories and their own faith story in fresh and lively ways through drama, images, movement, and storytelling in corporate worship.

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Manhattan, New York, New York To engage congregants of different ages and different ethnicities/languages in worship preparation and celebration as one body through intentional, joint learning, reflecting, planning, and creating worship for September 11, Reformation Sunday, a service focusing on the communion of the saints and commemorating martyrs, and Pentecost.

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Manhattan, New York, New York To connect a multicultural, multi-class group of children and youth with artists/mentors to learn about and practice various art forms including painting, puppetry/drama, photography, dance and music that will be used in worship.

Wollaston Congregational Church, Wollaston, Massachusetts To study the history, theology and practice of worship in an ecumenical partnership with six congregations and to plan a combined worship service that demonstrates some of the discoveries from the yearlong study.

Zion Korean United Methodist Church, Warwick, Rhode Island To develop initiation programs for newcomers, including youth and children, which will include bilingual weekly communion, multicultural music and worship formation, and to partner with Hillsgrove United Methodist Church in multicultural worship celebrations and the exploration of justice and youth ministries.

Zion Korean United Methodist Church, Warwick, Rhode Island To develop multigenerational worship services led by multicultural worship teams which focus on the community of faith and engages both children and adults through music from diverse cultures and weekly celebration of the Lord's Supper.

Zion Korean United Methodist Church, Warwick, Rhode Island To create a multigenerational worship model through bilingual weekly communion and music. To reach this goal, they will develop a monthly “worship and spiritual formation school,” train worship planners, and develop resources for creating culturally sensitive worship environments that bring together young generations and older generations in Korean American congregations.

Zion Lutheran Church, York, Pennsylvania To explore the use of artistic elements, such as drama and liturgical dance, in worship through a process that will include congregational members of all ages in learning and creating forms of artistic expression for worship.

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