The questions
The application asks who you are, then five questions about community, faith, service, school, and your plans. Your draft saves in this browser as you type, so you can leave and come back on the same device.
Scholarships
We offer two scholarships in memory of people from our church family. One application covers both.
The 2027 application is open now and due by May 31, 2027. Start your application.
Our members continuing their education beyond high school may apply to the Franzen fund. The Peter Kim award supports study beyond an undergraduate degree.
Meet the families these scholarships honor
Established 1999
The Franzen Memorial Scholarship Fund
Established in 1999, the fund continues Clarence and Priscilla Franzen's support of young people here.
- Who may apply
- Any church member going on past secondary school, college or vocational. Preference goes to high school seniors preparing for service-oriented careers, and others may still be considered, including graduate students and those heading into other kinds of work.
- Who decides
- The Franzen Scholarship Committee, subject to approval by the Session
- When
- Awards are made annually. The 2027 application is due by May 31, 2027; decisions come in the summer, and scholarships are distributed in the fall.
A continuing gift
Clarence and Priscilla Franzen invested in the young people of this congregation. The fund keeps that support moving forward for each new class of students.
Established 2019
The Peter Kim Scholarship
Dr. Peter Kim was the son of the Rev. Young Kim and Judy Kim, of our church family. He worked at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for twenty-three years before his death in 2017. The scholarship was established two years later in his memory.
It funds one award a year, for education beyond an undergraduate degree, with emphasis on seminarians, medical students, law students, and others going into the helping professions. Which is to say: it sends people into the work he did.
The Franzen fund reaches a graduating senior at the beginning of it all. This one reaches somebody already several years in, at the point the money usually runs out.
Together, the two funds can support one of our members from the summer after high school through a professional degree.
Due May 31, 2027
Applying
One application covers both scholarships. Answer the committee’s questions below, ask two adults to submit a reference form for you, and send a transcript.
Applications are accepted any time before the deadline. The committee decides awards in the summer, and scholarships are distributed in the fall. Awards are made at the discretion of our Scholarship Committee, subject to Session approval.
Two references
First-time applicants have two adults write directly to the committee through the reference form. Choose two different parts of your life: not both from school, both from sports, or both from church. Scholarship Committee members cannot serve as references, and past Franzen recipients do not need to send new ones.
Your transcript
Email the committee a transcript of your college academic work. An unofficial copy or a web printout is fine.
Call our office at 408-356-6156 for the committee’s email address.