Posts Tagged ‘teaching couple’
From Promoters to Teaching Couple
My husband Tom and I recently advanced in our CCL training—from being Promoters to becoming a Certified Teaching Couple. What a great decision! We have been happily surprised by how much fun we are having teaching and how enjoyable it is to work with our student couples. Everyone has their own style, but Tom’s “Dad”…
Read MoreSharing in God’s Grace
Mark and Colleen Pressprich, married for eleven years, live in Michigan with their five children. Mark is a practicing urologist and Colleen is a homeschool mom and Catholic children’s book author. They have been a Couple to Couple League NFP teaching couple since 2013. The Pressprich’s talk with Celine about cycle tracking, increased communication, and…
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…
Read MoreVolunteers Plant, God Harvests
Volunteers are the heart of Couple to Couple League. You could even say that while God is the “Lord of the Harvest,” volunteers are the faithful workers that have been sent out to labor in the field of the CCL ministry. The thousands of couples learning NFP each year from CCL all connect with a…
Read MoreLosing a Treasure: Marilyn Shannon
Anyone who has followed CCL for any amount of time is likely familiar with our best-selling book, Fertility, Cycles & Nutrition by Marilyn Shannon. The 5th edition was just released a few months, and was a complete re-write (not just an update) with as much solid, new information on the connection between nutrition and fertility…
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