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History
For more than a dozen years, another NFP organization trained NFP teachers in Eastern Europe. By the year 2000, it also supported two full-time workers, one in the Czech Republic, the other in Slovakia. It also supported efforts in Poland and other countries in Western Europe. It gave moral and technical support to volunteer teachers, and it indirectly supported the couples who learned NFP from these teachers.

In 2005, that organization ceased funding and supporting its NFP services in which the language of instruction was not English or Spanish. Our discussions with the former staffer in the Czech Republic led us to believe that a continuing investment in these operations can benefit the Church and the Slavic peoples. We founded NFPI in part to continue the ongoing efforts in Eastern Europe.

These are lands in which people suffered under the heavy hand of atheistic Communism from the days of World War II until the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. That's almost two generations. After all these years of anti-religious propaganda, the life of the Church has understandably not bounced back to what it was before, and the influence of the West has brought its own problems of secularism and immorality.

The reception of the NFP message varies from country to country. The apostles of NFP are making significant progress in Slovakia, a relatively Catholic country. Good progress has been made in Poland. Progress has been difficult in the Czech Republic. Our Czech NFP leadership couple lives in the city that at one time had that country's highest percentage of Communist Party members. The Czech husband continues to work full-time to build the NFP apostolate. Fortunately, he reached retirement age just as his previous funding ceased, and his European pensions allow him to do this completely as a volunteer.

Focus on Slovakia.
Our man in Slovakia is young, has five children, has a tremendous amount of energy, has been making good progress, and wants to keep working full-time in an NFP apostolate. He is such a good people-person that his townsfolk asked him to run for vice-Mayor. He would have no trouble finding alternative employment, but his heart is in the NFP apostolate.

He has set ambitious goals and objectives for 2007. As you read them, you will see that the first three objectives are well focused on those who have first-hand contact with engaged and married couples and who can play an important part in getting these couples to choose chastity. Here are his first five (of eleven) objectives for this year.

to teach at three seminaries and at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Trnava;
to teach an NFP course at a Greek Catholic seminary in Presov;
to teach priests in three religious orders -- Salesians, Palotines and Capuchins;
to set up the full NFP course as an integral part of marriage preparation in at least one parish;
to arrange and carry out NFP courses in all seven university pastoral centers in Slovakia.

We are thrilled with the efforts being made, with what has been accomplished, and with the disciplined plan for 2007. We are enthusiastic about what is happening in this part of the NFP International apostolate and hope you share our convictions and enthusiasm.

Your support can help to accomplish these important goals and objectives. To keep our man in Slovakia working full-time in the NFP apostolate, we need to raise $1500.00 per month. That's not much at all, but it has to come from people who see the importance of the NFP apostolate. Your donations are needed and will be used very effectively.

Focus on Eastern Europe
In Poland, we would like to develop a small full-time staff to expand and support the already well-started network of volunteer teachers.

NFP International also wants to serve in the Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. And then there's the Big Bear-Mother Russia. Here's a land in which the idea of permanent marriage was deliberately quashed by Communism, a land in which a typical woman has eight abortions before she reaches the end of her fertility. Yet, there are trained NFP teachers in Russia, trained by the volunteer "missionary" couples in Poland. We want to help this little effort grow and serve both individual couples and the efforts of the Church to teach the truth about love, marriage and sexuality.

Natural Family Planning International will not directly employ people in other countries. What NFPI will do is twofold.

We will set and maintain standards. We will require the recipients to have bona fide local organizations and to apply for funding. Such applications will require the recipients to do advance planning for one and two years and to set reasonable goals-both challenging and realistic. We will review their performance in terms of the goals they set.
We will seek to raise funds for these international operations. We will also do what we can to assist them with their own local fund raising efforts.

We ask for your help. We ask for your prayers on a regular basis for this effort to bring about a rebirth of chastity and a stop to abortion. We ask you to share this website with others. We ask for your financial support. Please click on The NFP Mission and How You Can Help for details. If you believe in this apostolate but are unable to support it at this time, please continue to use this website now and then help us financially when you can.

For additional information about NFP in Slovakia in the Slovakian language, go to www.lpp.sk.

For additional information about NFP in the Czech Republic, go to www.lpp.cz (Czech language) or to www.lpp.cz/english.html for the English version.