About Us

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Craig, a New Englander from the White Mountains of NH, met his wife, Amy, a South Dakotan, while both were studying Theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Inspired by their studies of Pope St. John Paul II’s writings on marriage and family life, the two married and embraced their adventure as missionary disciples. Over the past two decades, Craig & Amy have served in diocesan, parish, young adult, and marriage ministry positions throughout the Midwest & New England, and are co-founders of Catholic Marriage Fellowship, an apostolate to help build strong, joy-filled marriages through fellowship-rich Date Night Programs, quarterly marriage preparation retreats, and various presentations on dating, marriage, and family life. Celebrating 27 years of marriage this summer, Craig & Amy are blessed with five daughters, ages 25 down to 13, and a new grandbaby girl. In their spare time, Craig & Amy are parish marriage mentors and delight to spend quality time with their family in the great outdoors.

Craig & Amy serve at Holy Cross Family Ministries International Headquarters in North Easton, Massachusetts. Craig holds an MA in Theology & Christian Ministry and is the Director of Programs and Mission Outreach for Family Rosary USA. Amy holds a BA in Theology, with certifications as an NFP Instructor and FOCCUS Facilitator & Trainer, and is the Director of The Father Peyton Center. 

Catholic Marriage Fellowship began with a question in 2008, when a group of 15 engaged couples came away from attending one of our marriage prep retreats and excitedly asked us "What next?" The answer we gave them was to go back to their parish and see what the parish was offering. Unfortunately, no parish was offering any marriage enrichment, and so we invited the couples to take our course in Natural Family Planning, which all eagerly registered and attended. Was it because they loved NFP and wanted to follow Church teaching?...Perhaps for a few, but for the majority, it was the community they had experienced on their retreat along with a renewed commitment to Jesus Christ, and they desired to continue growing as a couple and community.  From that retreat forward, we committed ourselves to building up parish marriage enrichment. In 2010, with the blessing of our pastor, we launched our first parish based marriage group in which 40 couples attended monthly.  Since then we have led and been part of parish marriage enrichment groups which have benefited countless marriages, families and parish communities. We are excited to share our ministry expertise, passion for Jesus Christ and desire to strengthen families with parishes, groups and dioceses so that more and more couples can have truly enriched marriages in Christ and in their Catholic Church community.