Our Core Values

Warm and Welcoming Church Family
  • Friendly
  • Inclusive: Celebrating Ethnic and Cultural Diversity
  • Loving Towards Everyone
Newberg First Presbyterian Church offers love and acceptance to all people regardless of color, sexual orientation, or other differences. We celebrate diversity and inclusiveness.

Our Core Values

Intergenerational Community
  • Connecting All Generations in Relationship
  • Visitation of Elderly and Those with Illness.
  • Participation of All Ages in Church Activities.

Our Core Values

Outreach to Children, Youth, Young Adults, and Young Families.
  • Programs for Kids.
  • Partnership with George Fox.
  • Neighborhood Outreaches to Serve More Young People and Families

Our Core Values

Mission Outreach Both Locally and Globally to Those on the Margins
  • Community Service Opportunities
  • Support of Mission Partners and Mission Trips
  • Sharing of the Gospel Message and Doing the Work of Justice with Those on the Margins. We Support Immigrants, Refugees, and Interfaith Relations.

Our Core Values

Worship, Prayer, and Spiritual Formation
  • Blended Worship- Modern and Traditional
  • Choir, Worship Songs, and Expanded Music and Arts Ministry
  • Prayer Emphasis, Retreats, and Adult Education/ Spiritual Formation
We are a Christ centered church of Grace, Hope, and Love committed to mission in Newberg and throughout the world.

Church Mission Statement

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Join one of our many small groups that fits your needs including: Adult Formation Class, Men's Fellowship, "Space for Grace" Women's Fellowship, Infant and Children Ministry, Youth Ministry, College and Young Adult Community and "First Friday" Prayer Retreat. Click on the images below to find out more information on the small group that interests you.

We recognize that everyone is on a sacred spiritual journey. The Brief Statement of Faith taken from the Book of Confessions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is a helpful guide for understanding the Christian faith of our church community. We support a Trinitarian view of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but we also recognize God as Mother and support other images or non-images of God that honor the Spirit of God revealed in Scripture.

Church Beliefs

A Brief Statement of Faith

In life and in death we belong to God.

Through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, we trust in the one triune God, the Holy One of Israel, whom alone we worship and serve.

We trust in Jesus Christ, fully human, fully God.  Jesus proclaimed the reign of God; preaching good news to the poor and release to the captives, teaching by word and deed and blessing the children, healing the sick and binding up the brokenhearted, eating with outcasts, forgiving sinners, and calling all to repent and believe the gospel.

Unjustly condemned for blasphemy and sedition, Jesus was crucified, suffering the depths of human pain and giving his life for the sins of the world.

God raised this Jesus from the dead, vindicating his sinless life, breaking the power of sin and evil, delivering us from death to life eternal.

We trust in God, whom Jesus called Abba, Father.  In sovereign love God created the world good and makes everyone equally in God’s image, male and female, of every race and people, to live as one community.

But we rebel against God; we hide from our Creator.

Ignoring God’s commandments, we violate the image of God in others and ourselves, accept lies as truth, exploit neighbor and nature, and threaten death to the planet entrusted to our care.

We deserve God’s condemnation.  Yet God acts with justice and mercy to redeem creation.

In everlasting love, the God of Abraham and Sarah chose a covenant people to bless all families of the earth. Hearing their cry, God delivered the children of Israel from the house of bondage.

Loving us still, God makes us heirs with Christ of the covenant.  Like a mother who will not forsake her nursing child, like a father who runs to welcome the prodigal home, God is faithful still.

We trust in God the Holy Spirit, everywhere the giver and renewer of life, sets us free to accept ourselves and to love God and neighbor, and binds us together with all believers in the one body of Christ, the Church.

The same Spirit who inspired the prophets and apostles rules our faith and life in Christ through Scripture, engages us through the Word proclaimed, claims us in the waters of baptism, feeds us with the bread of life and the cup of salvation, and calls women and men to all ministries of the Church.

In a broken and fearful world the Spirit gives us courage to pray without ceasing, to witness among all peoples to Christ as Lord and Savior, to unmask idolatries in Church and culture, to hear the voices of peoples long silenced, and to work with others for justice, freedom, and peace.

In gratitude to God, empowered by the Spirit,we strive to serve Christ in our daily tasks and to live holy and joyful lives, even as we watch for God’s new heaven and new earth, praying, “Come, Lord Jesus!”

With believers in every time and place, we rejoice that nothing in life or in death can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.