About Us

Craig and Amy are the founders of Catholic Marriage Fellowship, a grassroots initiative to help build and nurture strong, joy-filled marriages. From online pre-Cana marriage retreats to their fellowship-rich, in-person Marriage Illuminated Date Night program, they delight in immersing engaged and married couples in the treasure of Christian marriage, while growing in a faithful community.  

A native New Englander from the White Mountains of NH, Craig met his wife, Amy, a South Dakotan, while both were studying Theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Craig and Amy married a few years later and began their vocation and life as missionary disciples. They are blessed by 26 years of marriage and the joy of five daughters, ages 25 down to 12. 

Inspired by the rich Catholic traditions of our Faith, as well as their studies of Pope St. John Paul II’s writings on evangelization, marriage and family life, they have devoted their adult lives to ministry since 2002 in diocesan, parish, young adult, and marriage ministry. Craig & Amy offer lively talks on dating, marriage and family life, serve as parish marriage mentors, and have been NFP instructors for the past 22 years. The most important and rewarding ministry that Craig and Amy are engaged in, however, is that of their own marriage and family, joyfully seeking to ‘guard, reveal and communicate love’ in their little domestic church. In their spare time, the great outdoors is their playground with family hiking, camping, DIY projects on their hobby farm, and most every backyard sport with their girls. Craig and Amy together enjoy long walks, reading, and cooking up family recipes in the kitchen with a glass of wine. 

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.