About Us

Natural Family Planning International, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization founded by John and Sheila Kippley in 2004. Its purposes include the promotion and teaching of chastity and natural family planning. The Kippleys serve as volunteers.

We will reply to questions as soon as possible. Helping others is a joy, so we hope that we can help you. Regarding counseling about natural family planning (NFP), you can also contact your local Catholic parish or diocese for a referral to an NFP counselor.

If you have a question or if you want to share experiences, we would like to hear from you. Go to "Contact Us."

Natural Family Planning-and More

Overview
The website has two basic aspects. The first deals with NFP. The second deals with matters of faith and religion.

Natural Family Planning
This website offers instruction in natural family planning in a readable question-answer format. Our NFP-How-To Manual, Natural Family Planning: The Question-Answer Book, will enable you to learn how to practice NFP-both ecological breastfeeding and systematic NFP. The information in this manual is much more complete than what we had when we first taught ourselves in 1968-1969 by reading a book and a magazine article. Many of the articles in NFP Resources deal with research and other matters directly related to NFP.

"and More"
The material in Spiritual Resources and some of the material in NFP Resources helps to fulfill the organization's second purpose-to promote and explain some aspects of Catholic teaching and prayer life. This section includes an expanded version of praying the rosary, a collection of common prayers, Church documents relevant to NFP, and articles dealing with Catholic teaching on love, marriage and sexuality.

The Hosts
The hosts of this website are John and Sheila Kippley. We were married in April 1963 and have raised five children. Since 1969 we have been active in promoting and teaching natural family planning and Catholic doctrine related to sexuality and NFP.

We are most grateful to Dr. Konald A. Prem, former head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Minnesota, for helping us learn the crosschecking Sympto-Thermal Method and how to teach it to others. Guided by his expertise, we founded the Couple to Couple League in 1971. With his help, we developed the triple strand approach to NFP education-ecological breastfeeding, morality, and a flexible version of systematic NFP.

NFP International
On a volunteer basis NFP International will strive to promote and teach NFP in the United States as well as in other countries. We will encourage those NFP teachers and couples who use and teach ecological breastfeeding, the morality of chaste NFP, and the Kippley-Prem method of systematic NFP.