Parkview Mennonite Church

04/21/2026

Everyone is invited to attend the Annual Peace Scholarship Essay Awards Program at 5:00 pm on Sunday, May 3, at First Friends of Kokomo, located at 1801 Zartman Rd., Kokomo, IN 46902. Three scholarships will be awarded to area high school seniors who will read their winning essays. Cameron Cunningham, School Resource Officer from Kokomo High School, will be our main speaker. A free-will offering will be collected to support future scholarships. Refreshments following.

01/22/2026

View Lillian E. Elias's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

04/22/2025

Everyone is invited to attend the Annual Peace Scholarship Essay Awards Program at 5:00 pm on Sunday, May 4 at Kokomo Church of the Brethren located at 311 W. Lincoln Rd., Kokomo, IN 46902. Three scholarships will be awarded to area high school seniors who will read their winning essays. Jeff Newton from Kokomo Urban Outreach will be our main speaker. A free will offering will be collected to support future scholarships. Refreshments following.

12/25/2023

Next Sunday December 31st is my last Sunday at Parkview Mennonite Church. We will be having a hymn sing and scripture reading with my nephew Randy Spaulding. Everyone is invited to attend, I would love to have you all come to spend this special day with me. Service starts at 9:30am.

03/28/2023

Everyone is invited to attend the...

Annual Peace Scholarship Essay Awards Program at 5:00 pm on Sunday, April 30 at Howard Miami Mennonite Church located at 3976 E 1400 S, Kokomo, IN 46901. Two scholarships will be awarded to area high school seniors who will read their winning essays. Rachel Gross will speak on the Death Row Support Project (see below) for the program. A freewill offering will be collected to support future scholarships.

5:00 pm Program.
Refreshments following.

When Rachel Gross and her husband, Bob, got married in 1974, they did not want to support the US’s war economy, so they decided to keep their income low enough so that they would not owe federal taxes. This decision paired well with working at low salaries or as volunteers for non-profit organizations. Much of their work has revolved around abolition of the death penalty. In 1978, they founded the Death Row Support Project, which invites people to write to those sentenced to death across the US. Rachel’s time with us will focus on her experiences in coordinating that project.

09/09/2022

05/25/2022

2022 Peace Scholarship Awards Program
(Pictured are speaker Megan Anderson, winner, Allison Kuns, and winner, Andrew Newcomer.)

The Annual Peace Scholarship Awards Program was held at Kokomo Church of the Brethren, Kokomo, Indiana on Sunday evening May 22, 2022. The program began with the reading of the two winning essays on peace. From Carroll High School, Allison Kun’s essay was titled, “A Recipe for Peace.” From Western High School, Andrew Newcomer’s essay was titled, “The Importance of Peace in Education Today.” Each winner received a $600 scholarship to assist with college expenses. Megan L. Anderson, a freelance writer and author of the book “Lead Me to the Rock: 100 Prayers for Climbing Heavenward,” spoke to us about the importance of narrative in peacemaking. The Peace Scholarship Essay Contest is a cooperative program of Brethren, Friends, and Mennonite Churches in and around Howard County Indiana.

05/17/2022

Everyone is invited to attend the...
Annual Peace Scholarship Essay Awards Program at 5:00 pm on Sunday, May 22 at Kokomo Church of the Brethren located at 311 W. Lincoln Rd., Kokomo, IN. Two scholarships will be awarded to area high school seniors who will read their winning essays. Megan Anderson will be the speaker for the program. A freewill offering will be collected to support future scholarships.
5:00 pm Program.
Refreshments following.

09/08/2021

Since 1992, the Peace Scholarship has awarded scholarships to winners of the annual Peace Scholarship Essay Contest. Help us challenge high school Seniors to make our world more peaceful by supporting our third annual Chicken/Beef -N-Noodle Fundraiser on Sept. 11, 2021 at First Friends Church located at 1801 Zartman Rd., Kokomo, IN.
The Peace Scholarship is a cooperative program of Brethren, Friends, and Mennonite Churches in and around Howard County Indiana.

05/19/2021

2021 Peace Scholarship Essay Winners
(Winners pictured Stevee Judy, Jolie Good, and Aubree Corby.)
Due to the pandemic, the Annual Peace Scholarship Awards Banquet will not be held this year. However, the pandemic did not prevent us from having our annual Peace Essay Contest for high school seniors from Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Grant, Howard, Miami, and Tipton counties. This year’s winning essays were: “Peace is the Key” by Stevee Judy from Maconaquah High School and Fuel Church, “Making Peace Against the World” by Aubree Corby from Maconaquah High School and Northview Church, and “Peace in Controversy” by Jolie Good from Kokomo Area Schools at Home and the Kokomo Church of the Brethren. Videos of the winners reading their essays may be viewed at the Peace Scholarship website: https://peace40.wixsite.com/peacescholarship. Each winner received a $600 scholarship to assist with college expenses. The Peace Scholarship Essay Contest is a cooperative program of Brethren, Friends, and Mennonite Churches in and around Howard County Indiana.