A Heart For Families & The School of Love

Universal Voices is back with an all new A Heart For mini-series. In this episode, Alissa welcomes Deanna Johnston. Alissa and Deanna jump into a wide range of topics related to faith, marriage and family life including:

• Finding joy and peace in our own gifts and the gifts of others.
• Being rooted in our worth.
• NFP as gift and also as purifying cross.
• The Church as a place of joy.
• Honoring each family's story within our Church.
• The gift and value that every family brings to the Church.
• The School of Love.
• Accompanying families and encouraging them in their gifts.

Deanna Johnston is the Director of Family Life for the Diocese of Tyler. She has been married to her husband Michael for 11 years and they have 5 children between the ages of 2 and 10. Before coming to East Texas, Deanna worked in Pastoral Ministry at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Dodge City, Kansas. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Spanish from the University of Memphis and a Master of Arts in Theology from Newman University in Wichita. Deanna has been featured on EWTN News In Depth, Embodied Magazine, and was part of the U.S. Delegation to the World Meeting of Families in Rome in 2022.