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Worship Renewal Grant Recipients—Region West 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

Alamosa Christian Reformed Church, Alamosa, Colorado 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.

American Baptist Seminary of the West, Berkeley, California To explore worship renewal through a collaboration of seminary students, pastors, lay persons, and other ministry professionals from various racial, ethnic, and cultural communities during a pastoral leadership conference.

American Baptist Seminary of the West, Berkeley, California To gather representatives from Northeastern Asian Indian, Native American and Asian American worshipping communities to assist each in lifting up its own “voice” in Christian worship, and to develop and disseminate the resulting worship resources through a conference.

American Baptist Seminary of the West, Berkeley, California To sponsor a multicultural two-day conference on examining and celebrating differences in worship especially for African American and Asian American churches

Ascension Lutheran Church, Paradise Valley, Arizona To link artist, theologian and worshiper in faith conversation and theological reflection that acknowledges art as a language with power to strengthen spiritual formation and results in the creation of art for worship.

Ashland First United Methodist Church, Ashland, Oregon To involve congregants in small rural congregations in southern Oregon and northern California in an interdenominational, intergenerational process that explores relationships in worship and focuses on connecting them to daily life.

Association for Reformed and Liturgical Worship, Sparks, Nevada To support ecumenical peer learning cluster groups to consider how seminaries can form worship leaders.

Bellevue Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Bellevue, Washington To sponsor a composer-in-residence to compose ten “call and response” invocations (prayers) that will be integrated into all aspects of the church's worship life as a community.

Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Longmont, Colorado To offer monthly worship services which utilize Light into the World: Hope for a New Day, a bluegrass setting of the Lutheran liturgy with all original music by a young composer, Kent Gustavson, to train volunteer musicians and to lead workshops both locally and nationally to share what they have learned.

Calvin Presbyterian Church, Corvallis, Oregon To develop multi-sensory experiences to help worshipers more deeply understand and experience the sacrament of Communion.

Chinese Christian Church Music Institute for Worship, San Mateo, California To sponsor a Worship and Music Camp for youth, youth leaders, and church musicians which will include worship planning, hymnology, liturgical dance, scripture dramatization, and a youth orchestra.

Christ’s Community Christian Church, Avondale, Arizona To sponsor a three-day retreat for pastors and worship pastors to understand the theological framework of worship, to refine core worship values in the evangelical tradition, and to apply those principles to relevant, contextual worship services.

Church of the Redeemer, Presbyterian Church(USA), Los Angeles, California To share innovative and creative methods for spiritually renewed, culturally relevant, and multi-generational vibrant worship experiences within small to mid-size traditional churches, with particular emphasis on children and youth, young adults, the preached and spoken Word, leadership development, and sacred music and the arts in collaboration with eight local churches.

City Impact, Inc., Oxnard, California To develop a 15-week course through Ventura County Worship Renewal Project on the history and development of Christian worship, plan creative congregational and public worship services, including a worship service practicum, and to facilitate cross-cultural worship experiences amongst churches.

Columbine United Church, Littleton, Colorado To form an intergenerational team that study ancient and emergent worship practices and how they relate to worship today.

Commission on Ritual and Worship (CMEC), Los Angeles, California To review and evaluate the Book of Ritual, a current denominational resource for worship, that will lead to revisions of content, language, theology and rubrics so that the resource will more accurately reflect the theological heritage of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (CMEC), promote deeper understanding of, and meaning in, rituals, and include materials that will speak to the diversity of musical and liturgical concerns of the cultures and demographics within the CMEC.

Covenant Presbyterian Fellowship (The Cove), Santa Rosa, California To deepen the understanding and experience of the Lord's Supper and Baptism by developing musical and liturgical leadership, enriching the worship environment with visual art relating to the sacraments, teaching children about the sacraments, and reaching out to the community through Passion Week worship services.

Delta Community Presbyterian Church, Discovery Bay, California To present four workshops to help smaller congregations begin using worship programs involving the use of dramatic readings and skits, puppets with children, interactive and narrative styles of sermons and creative changes to worship environments such as banners and interactive orders of worship.

Evangelical Covenant Church of Fort Collins, Fort Collins, Colorado To engage the congregation in learning about God’s presence in worship and daily life through retreats, monthly gatherings and artistic expression that will enrich corporate worship.

First Christian Reformed Church, Salt Lake City, Utah 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, Denver, Colorado 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 Covenant Church, Oakland, California To plan Worship 2001, a conference for musicians and worship leaders with an emphasis on music.

First Presbyterian Church, Altadena, California To unite intergenerationally and cross-culturally by interacting with scripture and the preached word through journals, lectio divina, prayer, inductive Bible studies, and Asian art.

First Presbyterian Church, Lebanon, Oregon To encourage intergenerational participation by integrating the gifts of the entire congregation through visual arts, music, multimedia, and drama in worship.

First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, Berkeley, California To create new, engaging and enduring habits of worship through a study of visual arts in worship with an emphasis on communion, baptism and the unity of believers.

First Presbyterian Church of Burlingame, Burlingame, California To develop the Gathering Around the Word so that it builds community and to examine worship planning and practices with the goal of increasing active participation of all worshipers through leadership training and congregational workshops.

First United Methodist Church of Santa Monica, Santa Monica, California To achieve a clearer and deeper understanding of the aim, purpose, and components of worship services by developing worship leadership within the congregation and introducing the congregation to new music, forms of prayers, and liturgy.

First United Methodist Church of Santa Monica, Santa Monica, California To create resources for those unable to worship with the gathered Sunday congregation through a collaborative study of church history, ecclesiology, and liturgy.

First United Presbyterian Church of San Francisco, San Francisco, California To train Asian and Anglo Americans of all ages to better plan, lead, and participate in a newly established multicultural, multigenerational worship service through discussion groups, liturgical art, retreats, and a conference.

Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Dana Point, California To create an indigenous worship service which integrates the best of the unique culture of their community with the strength of the Lutheran tradition, and to develop a workbook that will guide a congregation in developing worship practices that are responsive to their own particular context.

Granite Springs Christian Reformed Church, Rocklin, California 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 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 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.

Kent Lutheran Church, Kent, Washington To offer workshops that teach the congregation how art, color and light in the worship space engage members and visitors in worship that includes baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

Keolahou Congregational Hawaiian Church, Kihei, Hawaii To establish an independent, interdenominational Pacific Islanders Worship Arts Institute which will help Hawaiian churches embrace worship that celebrates Pacific island culture and honors the integrity of the Christian faith.

Kirk O’The Valley Presbyterian Church, Reseda, California To offer workshops in the theology and practice of worship, congregational singing, drama, movement and visual arts and implement what is learned into congregational worship.

Lafayette Orinda Presbyterian Church, Lafayette, California To prepare worshipers of all ages to present scripture in worship through dramatic interpretations of scripture, original musical works based upon the reading, story-telling and visual representations of scriptural themes.

Leadership Program for Musicians Serving Small Congregations, Denver, Colorado To begin a program for training worship leaders and musicians on the theological underpinnings of leading worship and music and developing practical skills in worship leadership.

Living Water Fellowship, Berkeley, California To study the biblical foundations as well as theological, historical and practical perspectives of the inclusion of a variety of forms of dance and movement in worship, with the intention of incorporating dance appropriately into worship services in a primarily college-age congregation.

Lutheran Community Church, Watsonville, California To provide ongoing training for musicians, choirs, worship leaders, and the congregation through developing a bilingual liturgy, hymn book, and other printed resources as well as creating multicultural art and symbols for the multicultural worship environment.

Mission San Luis Rey Parish, Oceanside, California To develop an intercultural worship planning team for a large, multicultural parish to encourage collaboration in celebrating cultural diversity in worship.

Montana Association of Churches, Billings, Montana To educate, equip, and support lay leaders in rural settings in order that the life of the church might continue to be blessed with excellent and meaningful liturgy, music, prayer, homilies, and sacramental ministry.

New Hope Covenant Church, Oakland, California To explore and nurture contextualized worship in an urban church with multi-racial and multi-class membership through consulting with urban and Southeast Asian churches, studying questions about worship and encouraging youth to learn traditional Southeast Asian instruments.

New Hope Covenant Church, Oakland, California To explore ways of bringing together Asian American, Anglo, and African American urban youth for contextualized expressions of worship that are Christ-centered, joyful, sustainable and life-giving in collaboration with local churches.

New Hope Covenant Church, Oakland, California To explore ways to bring cross-cultural music, dance, and written words more regularly into worship through hands-on training that will develop contextualized urban/multicultural intergenerational worship leadership.

New Life Christian Fellowship, Castro Valley, California To introduce multisensory worship, to study the meaning of the seasons of Advent and Lent, to invite Asian American congregants, especially children and youth, to learn about Asian puppetry and create puppets and dramas with seasonal themes, and to integrate this learning in worship services during Advent and Lent.

New Life Christian Reformed Church, Grand Junction, Colorado 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 American Association for the Catechumenate (NAAC), Seattle, Washington To support a conference on programs to integrate worship, evangelism, hospitality, and small group ministries in the process of welcoming new members to a congregation.

North American Association for the Catechumenate (NAAC), Seattle, Washington To sponsor a conference on programs to integrate worship, evangelism, hospitality, and small group ministries in the process of welcoming new members to a congregation.

Nu'uanu Congregational Church, Honolulu, Hawaii To undertake a year long process focusing congregational life on renewal of authentic, meaningful worship which is pleasing to God, biblically based, and welcoming to all. The project will include worship services, classes and an ecumenical worship renewal conference.

Office of Worship and Christian Initiation, Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, New Mexico To train and form local liturgical leaders through a process of learning, and applying that learning by designing, implementing and evaluating a parish liturgy project and writing a theological reflection paper integrating what they learned with their story, the story of their parish communities and the story of God’s love for us.

Office of Worship and Christian Initiation, Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, New Mexico To provide an intensive training for liturgical leaders of the diverse minorities of the Catholic community through the Liturgical Institute of the Southwest.

Office of Worship and Christian Initiation, Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, New Mexico To train parish liturgical leaders to function competently in their own communities, especially in locations that are served by non-resident clergy.

Office of Worship and Christian Initiation, Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, New Mexico To establish The Liturgical Institute of the Southwest, a certification program for training liturgical leaders in the planning and implementation of sound pastoral liturgy.

Office of Worship, Diocese of Honolulu, Kaneohe, Hawaii To develop a two-week formation program for clergy and laity to probe the connection between Jesus' death and resurrection and the practice of worship and prayer, and the connection between worship and daily living.

Office of Worship, Diocese of Honolulu, Kaneohe, Hawaii To gather clergy and laity from six remote Hawaiian islands to study the history and theology of liturgical worship so they may assist their worshiping community in participation in the Liturgy of the Word and Eucharist.

PACEM (Pacific Academy of Ecclesiastical Music), San Diego, California To conduct a seminar to address the need for clergy, choirs and congregations to better understand the Psalms and how the Psalms deepen the prayer life of congregations and nurture their faith.

PACEM (Pacific Academy of Ecclesiastical Music), San Diego, California To plan and implement a weekly compline service with attention to music as encouraging reflection on scripture and the involvement of youth leadership.

Pasadena Covenant Church, Pasadena, California To express Scripture through creative and artistic means by developing multigenerational ministry teams to engage in the telling and retelling of God’s story from one generation to another.

Providence Christian College, Ontario, California To develop a chapel program that reflects Reformed perspectives on worship by creating an environment conducive to communal worship, training student worship leaders in the history and theology of Reformed worship, developing their leadership skills, educating the college community on the deeper meaning and purpose of worship, and implementing ways that students can apply their knowledge of worship to impact both the college community and the surrounding community.

Rehoboth Christian Reformed Church, Rehoboth, New Mexico 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 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.

Resurrection Lutheran Church, Oakland, Californai To create worship that both reflects and helps form the unique multicultural congregation by recovering authentic indigenous worship materials and creating art, worship environments, music and educational experiences that reflect the worship traditions, theologies, pieties and vocabularies of the community.

River Rock Church, Folsom, California 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.

Rocky Mountain Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Denver, Colorado To offer a series of one-day events in eight locations on the connections between worship and discipleship. The workshops will help revitalize the worship and empower the ministries of the 182 congregations of the regional synod.

Salt Lake Theological Seminary, Salt Lake City, Utah To develop a congregational worship education program that can be used in Sunday school classes or small group studies, and to guide pilot churches in implementing the curriculum, especially in small rural churches.

Salt Lake Theological Seminary, Salt Lake City, Utah To offer Worship Alive! Workshop, a series of weekend events designed to educate, equip and energize worship planners and leaders serving small churches in ten different locations in Utah.

San Joaquin First Nations Fellowship, Inc., Lathrop, California To encourage and enable Native Americans to worship God in an authentic indigenous way through a process that will include learning and offering a workshop to other churches and the community.

School of Theology and Ministry of Seattle University, Seattle, Washington To launch a Summer Institute for Liturgical Studies to enable leaders for worship in the ecumenical and multicultural context of today's American culture, particularly in the Pacific region.

Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington To develop a process for worship renewal by linking worship, education, and the mission of the college.

Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington To develop curricular and training materials, courses, workshops and programs to enhance the musical and theological training of young adults engaged in the leadership of contemporary worship services. See Worship at the Next Level.

Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington To express diverse, global, and ecumenical worship through education, practice, collaboration, and community involvement in training seminars, cross-disciplinary conversations, and liturgical art.

Second Christian Reformed Church, Lynden, Washington 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.

St Stephens Lutheran Church, El Dorado Hills, California To create multigenerational worship teams that engage in an educational process to learn from each other and work together to plan and lead weekly worship services.

St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Pleasant Hill, California To reflect as a congregation on worship services and seasons and to equip leadership teams in music, arts, study and prayer.

St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Berkeley, California To engage adults and children in exploring music and liturgical art in worship through an intergenerational, multi-sensory all-church retreat and monthly workshops.

Sunnyside Christian School, Sunnyside, Washington To create collaboration between church, school and the home by focusing each month on one Vertical Habit in sermons, daily devotions, curriculum, special activities and chapel that will engage children and adults.

The Common Ministry at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington To train and equip student leaders to offer meaningful and theologically rich worship experiences for college students.

The Common Ministry at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington To develop ecumenical and intergenerational worship services that integrate Scripture, silence, and music with a world perspective and to accompany this service with theological reflection on its application for daily living.

The Gathering, Sacramento, California 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 Gathering, Sacramento, California To create intergenerational worship services by training youth to lead worship and adults to mentor the youth.

Third Christian Reformed Church, Denver, Colorado To research appropriate uses of technology in worship and to offer area churches a conference on using presentational technology wisely in worship.

Tribe of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California To integrate offering of time, material goods, services and money into liturgical practices so that worshipers better understand the processes by which we offer and receive gifts from God and from one another.

Trinity Episcopal Church, Escondido, California To equip children and youth for Christian worship within the liturgical framework of the Eucharist, and to foster intergenerational church community by fully engaging young people in a corporate worship experience through a newly commissioned Eucharistic liturgy for young voices and Orff instruments.

Trinity Episcopal Church, Escondido, California To explore the practice of hospitality in worship through study, workshops and monthly worship events that will invite adults and youth in the community to participate in worship.

Tualatin Presbyterian Church, Tualatin, Oregon To energize and enrich worship through the congregation-wide shared experience of planning, creating and evaluating relevant, service-specific visual art.

United Congregational Christian Church, Lodi, California To study scripture and create visual art that will find and express God’s transforming love and create a venue for the entire congregation including families with young children to fully participate in worship.

Urban Hymnal, Seattle, Washington To partner with three Seattle congregations in exploring how new, creative, relevant music, text, and art can help people pray more honestly, engage more deeply with one another and address the needs of the community.

Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California To invite more intentional practices of visual piety through a process that will include textual analysis, lectio divina, research and conversation, resulting in the creation of fourteen images of moments in the life of Christ which will be displayed throughout the campus and incorporated in worship and the production of corresponding devotionals.

Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California To develop a process for worship renewal by linking worship, education, and the mission of the college.

Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California To provide workshops and education on the role of art in spiritual life and assist students in creating three works of art that will blend visual art and spiritual life on a Christian liberal arts college campus.

Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington To develop a process for worship renewal by linking worship, education, and the mission of the college.

Worship Net International, Phoenix, Arizona To support Worship! Arizona 2002, a grass roots movement of more than 400 worship leaders who gather on a regular basis, including Worship Leaders' Quarterly Breakfasts, worship leadership training seminars and conferences.

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