THE NFPI HOME STUDY COURSE FOR BEGINNERS and FOR MARRIAGE PREPARATION
What is it? The NFPI home-study course is a convenient way for married and engaged couples to learn natural family planning or to take it for marriage preparation.
What’s involved?
• Studying the NFPI manual, Natural Family Planning: The Complete Approach.
• Learning how to observe, record, and interpret the signs of female fertility.
• Learning how to practice ecological breastfeeding.
• Learning the importance of the marriage covenant.
• Completing three tests based on the chapters of the NFPI manual.
Certificate of Completion. When a person shows a working knowledge of NFP and Catholic teaching on this subject by the completion of the above, a course certificate will be sent to the person or the priest who wants the certificate. If a person fails to show a working knowledge of NFP and Catholic teaching on this subject at a certain date, NFPI is obliged not to grant a course certificate. The subject matter is not intellectually difficult, and NFPI will work with students until they acquire a working knowledge as demonstrated by charting and answering the basic questions in the tests.
When to start. For marriage preparation, you need to start at least six months before the wedding date.
Donation for the course:
• Send a donation of $70 (U.S. dollars only) or more (payable to NFP International) to: NFP International; P. O. Box 11216; Cincinnati OH 45211
• Or donate at the website. Let us know by email the date of your donation.
•Upon receipt of the donation, the first test will be sent.
•Purchase a Becton Dickinson digital basal thermometer. See Books/Thermometer at the And More section on the left side of the NFPI Home Page.
•Obtain Natural Family Planning: The Complete Approach in one of two ways:
1. Purchase the manual at the NFPI Home Page. We recommend the coil (spiral) edition because it lies flat.
2. Download it from the NFPI Home Page. Use 3-hole paper and a 3-ring binder.
•Download free charts from the NFPI Home Page.
The NFPI Home Study Course is inexpensive and is an easy way to learn natural family planning. The NFPI manual is written in a simple question-and-answer format.
Sheila Kippley