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Mailing address
4020 N. College Street
Newberg, Oregon

E-mail: office@northvalleyfriends.org

Phone: 503.538.5340
Fax: 503.538.5141

Office hours:
Monday: 9:00am-1:30pm
Wednesday: 9:00am-1:30pm
Friday: 9:00am-1:30pm

Newsletter Lead Article

Peace Month

In January we are going to join with other Northwest Yearly Meeting churches in observing Peace Month. This year the focus is on our Quaker testimonies. A helpful way to remember the testimonies is with the acronym SPICE, which stands for Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community and Equality.

Friends throughout history have exemplified living out their faith in ways that are world-changing. That fact makes this upcoming series a wonderful way to continue our conversation about Discipleship: Together on the Jesus Way.

Friend’s testimonies are values and practices that overtime have come to express the way we have felt led by God to enact God’s love in the world. They are general themes that provide a framework that gives guidance to our choices. The testimonies rise from a concern for purity, holiness and consistency with God’s order and are based on our desire to live as if the kingdom of God were a reality now and not some golden age of the past or a blessed event in the future. These outward expressions of enacting God’s love in the world are based on our direct relationship with God and a profound belief in the power of God to prevail over the forces of sin and evil in the world and all of creation.

We will engage the whole congregation in this conversation as the children will also explore the testimonies at an age-appropriate level each week. Our hope is that we will all feel challenged and equipped to follow Christ’s call more faithfully as Friends with a history as well as a future.

Go to theNorthwest Yearly Meeting website for more information and for Peace Month resources.

Staff

Lynn Clouser Holt
Lead Pastor

 

Lynn has served at North Valley for nine years. Whether at church or in a coffee shop, she is passionate about helping people connect their Christian faith and spiritual practice to their everyday lives. “Our spiritual formation will impact all of life, and should equip us to partner with God and others in the challenges and struggles of our broken and needy world,” she says.

Lynn enjoys training to walk the Portland to Coast; she welcomes you to join her on the walking trail at North Valley. Other passions include her husband, Jon, and building vital relationships with her children and grandchildren.

 

 

Leslie Murray
Pastor

Children & Youth

 

Leslie has served as youth pastor at North Valley for nine years, and began the recording process at Northwest Yearly Meeting in Fall 2008. She is a wife, mom, a youth pastor and student, taking classes from George Fox Evangelical Seminary to further her education. Quiet pastimes include reading and cross-stitching, but she can also be found whitewater rafting and spelunking.


 

Paul Bock
Pastor

Worship & Community Life

 

Paul has been attending North Valley Friends with his wife Miriam for eleven years.  He is a recorded pastor in Northwest Yearly Meeting and has extensive experience in youth ministry.  Paul is a trained spiritual director and enjoys exploring and discovering the activity of God in the lives of those with whom he is journeying.   He loves his wife, children, and grandchildren, and is very grateful to be part of a community like North Valley Friends that is sincerely seeking to follow Jesus and longs to be obedient, even if we aren’t always sure what that looks like.

 

 

Cherice Bock
Media & Website Administrator

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Erinn Hampton
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Noël Carey
Children’s Education Assistant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lauren Dodge
Youth Ministry Intern

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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