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. 

Craig & Amy work at Holy Cross Family Ministries International Headquarters in North Easton, Massachusetts. Craig serves as the Director of Programs and Mission Outreach, and Amy serves as the Director of The Father Peyton Center. Craig holds an MA in Theology & Christian Ministry, and Amy holds a BA in Theology. They are certified NFP Instructors with the Couple to Couple League, FOCCUS Facilitators & Trainers, as well as marriage mentors at their parish. 

Married for 27 years, Craig & Amy are blessed with five daughters, ages 26 down to 13, and joyfully welcomed their first grandbaby this past spring. In their spare time, they delight in taking long walks together, spending quality time with their family, and enjoying the great outdoors. 

Catholic Marriage Fellowship began with a question in 2008: "What's Next?" After three years of offering 5 marriage prep retreats per year, a group of 15 engaged couples came away from attending one of these retreats and excitedly asked us, "What is next?" So we invited the couples to take our course in Natural Family Planning. Nearly every single couple 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. Ultimately, they desired to continue growing as a couple and community.  

After the NFP course, they asked again, "What's next?" The answer we gave them was to go back to their parish and see what the parish was offering. Unfortunately, each couple shared with us that their parish was not offering any form of marriage enrichment. It was here where we realized that God was strongly tapping us to commit 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 20+ couples attended monthly.  Since then we have led and been part of parish marriage enrichment groups that have personally touched, and God-willing, blessed countless marriages, families, and parish communities. 

We are excited to share our zeal and ministry expertise, passion for Jesus Christ, and desire to strengthen families with parishes, small groups/large groups, as well as dioceses and beyond. Our hope is for an increasing amount of couples to enrich their marriages in Jesus Christ, among the fellowship of others, and within their parish/Christian community.