This weekend our parish had a ministry fair. Both Jay and I worked our different ministries and had a great time hanging around and getting to know a few people better.
At one point, Jay was talking to a couple that we are barely acquainted with who were working at the NFP booth. It turns out that they are instructors. So Jay asked, “I didn’t know you were instructors! How long have you been doing that?”
The husband replied with, “Ever since we heard you tell your story at the Theology of the Body class.”
Whoa!
About 4 years ago, we were asked to tell out our vasectomy reversal story during one session of a 4 week Theology of the Body class at our parish. We were totally unprepared; we just got up and told it off the cuff. But it turns out that this couple left that class and went home, threw out their birth control pills, and decided to try NFP!
When they contacted the local NFP chapter in our diocese, they were told that the next class was two months away. So they abstained during that entire two months while waiting for the class, and eventually decided to become instructors!
This has just made my year. To know that something *WE* said brought someone closer to the Church and impacted their lives like that – it’s just very humbling and exciting!