Engaged Couples Ministry

Since last summer, Adam and I have been giving a Basic Information Session in Natural Family Planning (NFP) to engaged couples. We have been blessed to be able to do this ministry together for the NFP Center where I work parttime as the Program Director — and we are eternally grateful to our good friend Alexis who graciously watches the kids on these evenings. Our talk includes a history of NFP, the anatomy and physiology behind it, the Theology of the Body, and how using NFP has blessed our marriage.

Last night we had our largest class ever. Twenty-six couples (52 people) attended our session! Wow, I was slightly overwhelmed with the large audience. In a large crowd I feel we lose a little bit of the intimacy. But apparently God thinks we have something useful to say as our classes have been getting larger and larger. And the Holy Spirit is working in us and these couples as we have seen several express interest in signing up for classes after our presentation. A deacon that attended our talk last September with one of his married couples even asked me yesterday if we’d be willing to travel to his parish in Kyle to give the talk twice a year for his marriage preparation program.

I feel very blessed to share my very spiritual and loving husband with these couples that they see such a devout man not afraid to share his faith or live it. And I hope they see the joy we have in our marriage in living out the Church’s teaching.

So I want to humbly ask for your prayers. I ask that you pray that God will enlighten these couples with His truth; just as the scales fell from St. Paul’s eyes when he was converted, may the scales of secularism and the culture of death fall from their eyes. And pray that the Holy Spirit will continue to work through us and them to encourage holy sacramental marriages.