Our Shared Values
While our community’s diversity, creativity, and constant growth are what keep us engaged and alive, it’s our shared values that ensure a deep and lasting bond between residents, leadership, and staff, and between Friendsview and the amazing Newberg community.
Integrity builds trust and strengthens relationships, creating a foundation for love and community.
Proverbs 20:7
Integrity
Friendsview is committed to honesty and fairness; to being ethical, trustworthy and responsible for our actions. Upholding integrity in all our social and business relationships honors Christ as it advances truth and builds trust.
Stewardship
Friendsview is committed to sound management of the financial, human, and natural assets entrusted to its care. We recognize that successful stewardship is necessary to achieve our vision to be the best place to live and to work.
Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in various forms.
1 Peter 4:10
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another as God in Christ forgives us.
Ephesians 4:32
Compassion
Friendsview is committed to imitating Christ’s compassion by treating each individual with loving kindness, tenderly bearing one another’s burdens and sharing one another’s joys.
Community
Friendsview values each resident, team, and board member as a full member of our Continuing Care Retirement Community. All are invited to participate according to their ability and interest in enriching activities and services that contribute to vibrant and meaningful community life.
“Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
Romans 12:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Excellence
Friendsview members live and work together intentionally to promote the physical, social, and spiritual well-being of each person. Our goal is to achieve the highest level of quality, to continually improve, and to glorify God.
Dignity
Friendsview affirms the dignity and worth of all persons before God. We provide opportunities to maintain or improve one’s quality of life through activities that engage the mind and body, and through creative pursuits. We promote self-direction, freedom, and personal responsibility while submitting to authority and community.
Love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another showing honor.
Romans 12:10
Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord.
Ephesians 6:7
Service
Friendsview is committed to serving the needs of our members, enhancing their self-reliance and wellness, and to providing opportunities for meaningful contribution. As each member shares their gifts, they strengthen the community, finding joy in serving others.
Friends Heritage
Incorporated in 1958, Friendsview was founded by the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends, through the Board of Peace and Service, in response to the need for a “Christ-centered Community” to provide housing and senior health care.
I have called you friends, for everything I have learned from my Father I have made known to you.
John 15:15
