Roy Petitfils is a counselor at Pax Renewal Center for Individual, Marriage, and Family Therapy in Lafayette, Louisiana, and a popular speaker in the area of youth ministry. Before going into counseling full time, he served as a religion teacher and director of campus ministries at St. Thomas More Catholic High School, and as a counselor and administrator at St. Cecilia School in Broussard, Louisiana. He is the author of What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About the First Five Years of Marriage and God Wears Running Shoes: Spiritual Reflections for Those Ministering to Young People.