Instead, I want to share our personal journey to NFP, the benefits it brings to marriage, the health and environmental benefits, etc. with a few posts that focus on the moral side of things. I just know that many younger couples tend to tune out very quickly when religion or morals is your platform, and I really just more people to know about NFP and give it a chance.

When the deeply spiritual issues arise, I know to send them back here!

http://ccldalharttx.blogspot.com/

We are hoping that the blog will help us stay connected to our students and make new connections with potential students and other NFP promoters/supporters.

Also in reference to habit #6, I couldn’t agree with you more. I was a youth minister last year and we were teaching a Catholic curriculum to 7th graders about sexuality, and although it covered such topics as abortion, HIV, and masturbation, there was not a word about the Church’s teaching on contaception and NFP! Needless to say, myself and the other woman teaching added a lesson about NFP. No details, just that it exists and why it differs from contraception and what the church teaches about contraception. Amazingly not a single girl in our class had ever heard of NFP! We are definately neglecting our youth.

How does this work? Can you get my email address from this blog? I don’t necessarily want to put it out there for everyone to see.

Feel free to email any time.

About “bickering in-house”. Yes, there is a certain element of collegiality and healthy competition that prompts growth. However, sin and judgement and uncharitable collegiality is disordered. And I’ve seen a lot of the latter. I’ve heard a lot of people from methods mis-quoting other methods’ effectiveness, or saying negative things about other methods without really researching or dialoging about it. What I think will help is inter-method dialogues and fellowship, so teachers can have the space and friendship to communicate and understand eachother.

It’s true about volunteers. Very few paid volunteers. This is such a constant struggle. We need a sweeping testimony, a film, a compilation of powerful things said to convince us of the centrality of the importance of the family and the cancer of contraception. We need a “Fishers of Men” (Grassroots Films) for NFP and Humanae Vitae! Perhaps then the Bishops will wake the heck up and hire a staff full of NFP Coordinators!

Dustin
EngagedMarriage.com

As regard to secular presentations/wording, I’ve written a presentation on that and if I get the confidence to put that one up on scrbd, I will. I guess what I see we need is a group of on-line people who are interested in evaluating material. Whoever sets this up, I’d greatly appreciate it.

As far as bickering in-house… it’s a problem. However, the competition has enabled the nfp movement to grow. It’s difficult to snuff the nfp movement out, and that’s the positive side to this problem. I don’t think this problem will go away.

Working with teens/young single adults. Excellent suggestion. I give the Creighton Mode FeritlityCare Intros to upper classman in high school and to those who are in college. It’s been well rec’d. In addition to working with this age group, I believe it is also important to work with my age group and older, those who are past their fertility years. This is a very ignorant group on what makes for a successful marriage and how nfp strengthens families. But they are very influential in the lives of their children and grandchildren. It’s also a group that can recognize the errors of their ways, have probably already rec’d sacrament of Reconciliation for their “sins of their youth,” and are just ready to be tapped for evangelization of their families and friends.

Thank you, for your suggestions. You and your website give me a boost. It is a lonely world in this apostolic work of ours… but hey… we’ve got Jesus, Mary and the saints in heaven behind us. It’s time for us to make some noise about nfp—- some “joyful” noise!