Volunteering
The Gift of a Child
As Mother Teresa said at the 1994 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., “A child is God’s greatest gift to the family, to the nation, to the world.” At CCL, we see every child welcomed through the practice of NFP as a beautiful gift from God – both to the family and to the world.…
Read MoreA Banner Year
This year marks a sacred and extraordinary milestone—our organization’s 55th anniversary. For more than five decades, our shared commitment has transformed lives and empowered students, families, and the wider community. As we celebrate this landmark, we invite you—our volunteers, donors, and supporters—to embrace this “banner year” as both a time of achievement and a spiritual…
Read MoreForty Years, Countless Lives: Reflection on Teaching NFP
Our oldest daughter recently celebrated her 40th birthday—a milestone that prompted us to reflect on another anniversary: teaching NFP for 40 years. It’s hard to believe that the tiny two-week-old baby in our arms back then is now a grown woman, and that our journey as Natural Family Planning teachers began with that very first…
Read MoreRevival Is Coming
Evangelize. Revival. Jubilee. What do these words mean to you? This summer, they took on a new meaning for me. We were blessed to attend the National Eucharistic Congress as a CCL team, but we each walked away with an incredibly personal encounter with Christ. These words were not only the rally cry for the…
Read MoreIncrease Your Reach
As the 2024 Olympics were televised, I watched in awe at how so many athletes from around the world could compete in the same sports. Some sports, like track and field, have been around for centuries, but others, like breakdancing and skateboarding, seem too modern to be worldwide sports. What once was just a pastime…
Read MoreThe Lighter Side of Teaching NFP
My wife promised to proofread this first. She was afraid it would be filled with tacky jokes, but I’m so confident that I can provide dry humor that I just slipped it into the CCL inbox. I’ve been a teacher for 20 years and I’m an engineer who takes humor very seriously. So, in the…
Read MoreTeaching NFP and Life’s Blessings
Pete and Lora Brodeur have been an NFP teaching couple for over twenty years, both in-person and online. They have also been involved in sharing NFP and marital ethics at the marriage preparation program in their diocese. They have four grown children who have each found their own passions. Their eldest son is a teacher…
Read MoreTeaching NFP, a Natural Fit
Kevin Walsh serves in the U.S. Marine Corps, so he and his homeschooling wife, Adrienne, are familiar with service. Although the military does not officially sanction his teaching NFP, Kevin and Adrienne have found being a teaching couple a natural fit for service within the Church. Through military stations from North Carolina to Europe, the…
Read MoreTeaching NFP, Sharing Life Experience
“Like all great love stories, we met at a bar,” chuckles Dr. Paul Lobitz about meeting his wife, Sarah. Today, the Colorado couple have seven kids and teach NFP— but it’s been a long journey. Along the way, the bumps have included unplanned pregnancies, periods of animosity, and a conversion that transformed their plan of…
Read MoreThe Lifecycle of One CCL Volunteer
Karen and I began teaching as volunteers for CCL in 1985; we did our first series with a nursing infant in our arms. She was conceived less than a year earlier between class 3 & 4 when as students we figured we had the ‘NFP for avoiding’ thing figured out and wanted to test ‘NFP…
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