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NFP International Needs Help

Sunday, December 28th, 2014

There’s no question: NFP International needs help. So if you think that NFP International is an organization that uniquely serves the Church and anyone who is interested, please read on….

First, in NFP International we are not just teaching cheap and natural birth control. Not at all. We are unique in teaching ecological breastfeeding, the kind of breastfeeding that maximizes all the dose-related benefits of breastfeeding and also provides, on average, 14 to 15 months of breastfeeding amenorrhea and infertility. Couples who adopt ecological breastfeeding will probably save at least $1,000 with each baby by not using formula and special baby foods, and their babies will most likely experience better health.

Second, we teach all the common signs of fertility and infertility so that user couples can decide which ones they want to use. We teach all of this in the context of the Catholic Tradition of Christian discipleship. We can’t force this on anyone, but we think it’s important to see the meaning that God has built into the marriage act—that it ought to be a renewal of your marriage covenant, and we are unique in that teaching. We may also be unique in allowing our manual to be downloaded for free for the poor. For others a $10 donation is requested.

Considering the contemporary culture, we think our effort to place the whole issue of birth control and sexuality in the context of religion and morality is very important for the welfare of Western culture. We think President George Washington was correct when he said in his 1796 Farewell Address, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”

So I ask for your support. Please pray for the advancement of the NFPI mission. This effort is an apostolate, and it needs your prayers.

Please help us financially. Please realize that nothing is really cost-free. The only way we can keep offering free downloads for the poor is if the non-poor contribute to that effort. So, if you appreciate what NFP International is doing, please help us. We would not be asking for this support if we did not really need it. Anything and everything helps. No gift is too small. Gifts of $25 and $50 and $100 are very helpful, but so are gifts of $10 and $5 as well. Every gift carries the message, “Carry on!”

To support NFPI, please click here http://www.nfpandmore.org/missionhelp.shtml or go to www.nfpandmore.org and click on the PLEASE DONATE button in the left-hand column. Or send a check payable to NFPI to the address at “please donate.”

May God bless you and your loved ones in a special way this Christmas season,

John F. Kippley
President

NFP International is a 501-c-3 not-for-profit organization. All gifts are tax deductible.

 

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Ways to Promote Natural Family Planning

Sunday, August 31st, 2014

NFPI Brochures: Do you want to promote NFP at your parish or at a conference? Do you want a priest to know more about NFP or the kind of breastfeeding that spaces babies? What about encouraging a friend or a relative to give NFP a try? Go to http://www.nfpandmore.org/brochure.shtml and take your pick of several brochures.

The breastfeeding brochure promotes the benefits of breastfeeding for everyone in the family and mentions the two Popes who supported breastfeeding. This brochure is available In two versions. One shows a Caucasian mother; the other an African-American mother. Both brochures contain the same text.

The natural family planning brochure promotes all the NFP options including ecological breastfeeding and all in the context of Catholic teaching. The text is the same for both brochures, but one is available in black and white text and the other provides graphics. Our pastor felt the black and white text was easier to read, but many prefer the graphics. The brochure with the graphics should be printed on glossy paper.

Hopefully some pastors will allow such brochures to be placed in the back of their Church.

Brochures can be costly. We contacted several sources here and elsewhere. The cheapest price for the graphics brochure was 41 cents when we ordered 500. Also brochures cannot be mailed at book or media rate. These brochures are easily printed. You merely have to fold them and they are ready to be used.

Church Bulletin Announcements: One couple paid $125 for a church bulletin ad for the year and for the Church website. It basically said:

Natural Family Planning
Complete and Convenient
See www.NFPandmore.org
And click on Home Study Course

Another man wanted to do the same in his Church, but the cost was $1645 for an ad the size of a business card for the entire year on the back of a church bulletin. We do not want anyone to pay for such an expense. Instead place an announcement for the Home Study Course in a church bulletin announcement once every month or once every 3 or 6 months to encourage people to make use of the NFPI website or take the Home Study Course. Just use the text above.

Website Promotion: Anyone can join “Google Alert” for any article on “natural family planning” or “ecological breastfeeding.” When such articles arrive, you can post a comment referring readers to the NFPI website. There are Catholic forums and chat rooms where NFP is being discussed or where someone wants information on natural family planning. It only takes a few minutes to refer them to the NFPI website.

Catholic Mothers Nursing League: For those mothers interested in teaching, supporting and promoting ecological breastfeeding in your parish, contact this organization, Catholic Nursing Mothers League. This is an excellent way to support breastfeeding mothers and to teach natural child spacing. Information for conducting a meeting is provided and the organization has its own breastfeeding manual titled Getting Started with Breastfeeding for Catholic Mothers.

Sheila Kippley
www.NFPandmore.org

 

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Natural Family Planning and Abstinence

Sunday, April 27th, 2014

Couples choose to abstain during the fertile time when they have a sufficiently serious reason to avoid pregnancy.  Some couples may make use of this time by helping more with the children or reading a book or starting a project or finding an activity they can do together.  Some couples make the decision to abstain for spiritual reasons, such as on a Friday or during Lent.

There are couples who decide to abstain for a lengthy period of time because of a medical or mental-emotional reason.  We know a couple who abstained for 18 months after childbirth. We know another couple who abstained for two years for an anxiety-mental situation as the wife was going through pre-menopause.  We know another couple who abstained for six months because some ill-informed infertility doctor told them she might be allergic to her husband’s sperm. (The doctor told the couple to use condoms for six months.)  They abstained and finally became pregnant by using guafenesin to improve the liquidity of her cervical mucus. When they wanted to become pregnant again, they used guafenesin and achieved pregnancy again.

What’s the great problem that the population has with systematic NFP?  Chaste abstinence for about 10 days is no big deal. All too many of our priests and even bishops are afraid to teach the need for chaste periodic abstinence when there is a sufficiently serious reason to postpone pregnancy.

A critic recently told us that we are going to hell for teaching natural family planning.  NFP International definitely encourages couples to be generous in having children, and we teach ecological breastfeeding as a form of baby spacing—which implies that another baby will come along.

However, for those couples who have a sufficiently serious reason to avoid pregnancy, periodic abstinence is a real blessing and can help a couple grow closer together.

Abstinence can  help a couple grow in holiness if they continue to think of the good of the other and continue to be a helpmate to each other.

(April 23 is our 7th anniversary  for blogging…460 blogs!)

John and Sheila Kippley
Natural Family Planning: The Complete Approach
The Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding: The Frequency Factor

 

 

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