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In my opinion recently announced application Things has one small advantage at this point - it's section called AREAS.
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As far as I can tell, Areas in Things is really no different from Folders in OmniFocus. Some people use them as Roles, some use them as context areas, others use them as the GTD 'Flights' metaphor. I think you have a lot of flexibility to configure OmniFocus as is now to model some aspects of the Covey system.
Want a Mission Statement area? Why not create a single action list or a project that contains your statement in the notes area? Then you could create goals and action items relating to your mission within this project.
Create folders for your Roles areas and nest all the projects related to each specific role. Enter time estimates for the actions and use the sum time estimates script in the Extras forum here to calculate the totals, then compare the totals among your Roles areas/folders.
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According to Covey's book, there could be another view mode: Weekly view. It's important to see all my tasks and activities in some time context. Week is a good period of time to plan something. I could see all my Due tasks for each day, and if I could attach color to the Areas of Focus actions, those could be in different color, to help me visualise how much time I've scheduled for my family, how much for work and how much for community services
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I hope you understand that this is where Covey and Allen go in completely different directions. There is nothing GTD about planning out a week's activities in a time context, complete with daily to-do lists. However, if you are assigning hard due dates to all your actions, the Due Soon perspective should give you a fair idea of how you have allocated your time between your roles in the next few days.
As another thought, you might also want to take a look at the Zen-to-Done concept on the zenhabits.net web site. Zen-to-Done is heavily GTD influenced with enough of the 7 habits thrown in that you might find it interesting, and more easily worked with in OmniFocus.