Meet the Team
The rest of the team
David Roche – IT Specialist
Robin Greenwell and Connie Gray – Administrative and event volunteers
Marriage Educators – Ken & Sue Emerick, Christopher Sloop
Marriage Initiative – Bishop Ross Jackson, Pastor Mark Wright, Pastor Bill Thomas, Pastor Tony Peterson
Board of Directors
2025 Officers:
Chair – Dean Cook, Retired Federal Government
Vice Chair – Doug Ochs, Accounting
Secretary – Bret Merson, Team Leader, Keller Williams Realty
Treasurer – Coleen Kramer Beal, Velnoskey Wealth Management Group
Gail Cook – Finance
Anne McKenna – Co-Founder
Bill McKenna – Co-Founder
Proud Members of
Our Executive Director
Amy M. Gilford, our executive director since 2015, has worked diligently since 2004 to elevate the importance of healthy marriages and families in our community.
She has focused on expanding programs, events, and community partnerships and is certified in numerous relationship education curricula. She graduated from Carroll County Public Schools and is an alumni of James Madison University. She is a graduate of the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Carroll Class of 2018, and a member of several community organizations. A dedicated coffee drinker, Amy has completed her Master Gardener exam. She is ESL instructor at her church and loves history and reading suspense novels.
Married to her husband Jim since 1984, the couple has four adult children, three of whom are married, and several grandchildren.
