Friendship: Building Confidence
Meet Joe. He has been mentoring *Cameron for just seven months. Until recently, Cameron preferred to stay home and mostly unengaged with the outside world. Their relationship took work from both sides…
Friendship: Thoughtfulness
As we continue looking at qualities of good friendship, we share the story of one of our most recent matches. Luke and his wife Jaci were matched with an energetic young man whose roots stretch across the ocean to Sierra Leone, West Africa…
Friendship: Compassion
Today is National Special Education Day, so for our stories that share a positive aspect on the theme of friendship, we look at two examples that show compassion…
Friendship: Reliability
It is week 2 of 6 in which we explore aspects of a good friendship. Faithful Friend mentor Ted has displayed a wonderful example of reliability through the years…
Friendship: Gratitude
We’re in our first week of six looking at aspects of what makes a good friendship. For today’s post we look at gratitude…
Friendship: Connectedness
Today we launch our end of year campaign focusing on the theme of friendship. Over the next six weeks we will be looking at examples of some aspects of what being a friend looks like in practical ways…
Braking Cycles
This past week we hosted a fall event for mentors & mentees at Braking Cycles, a nonprofit coffee and bike shop community partner in Southeast Portland…
Thank you Bridgetown Church!
Faithful Friends Executive Director Brianna Woods recently got to share at Bridgetown Church about our mentoring program along with Amy who has been a mentor for the past few years…
Welcome Karsyn our first intern
In previous posts this year, Faithful Friends has introduced you to two new staff members (Tim and Lynsey) as our organization grows. We have another first this year to share with you… our first intern!
Celebrating Duncan
This month we celebrate our co-founder Duncan Campbell’s birthday. His hand in founding non-profits like ours makes more sense when you can hear his story for yourself…