Our Staff
Bill & Anne McKenna Founders, Co-Directors
Retired Carroll County Public School educators, the couple was married 50 years this August and has four children and 12 
grandchildren. Bill spent over 30 years teaching, coaching, and as an athletic director. The McKennas are trained mentors and marriage educators certified to teach numerous curricula including FOCCUS and REFOCCUS, PAIRS Relationship Skills, The Couple Check-up, Prepare-Enrich, 10 Great Dates To Energize Your Marriage, and Couple to Couple, a unique marriage enrichment program. They started their work in marriage education by developing a marriage ministry in their local church. As the word spread to other churches, they decided, with the encouragement of the local ministerium, to form an independent organization. The Marriage Resource Center (MRC) was founded in November of 2004 as Marriage Savers and changed its name in 2007 after gaining 501(c)3 status. Bill and Anne teach the "Make It Last" class and oversee the day to day operations of MRC.
Amy M. Gilford, Director of Community Relations
Married 27 years to her husband, Jim, a Project Lead the Way Instructor at the Carroll County Career and Technology Center, Amy
has four children, two of whom are recent college graduates. She has been with MRC since 2004 and is the coordinator for the Best Love Project, MRC's new Teen Pregnancy Prevention initiative. Amy has a passion for educating the community on the benefits of healthy marriage for families and children and is currently developing MRC's Speaker's Bureau. She is a certified WAIT Training (Why Am I Tempted?) and PICK a Partner (How To Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk/Jerkette) instructor. Amy and Bill co-chaired the area's first Fatherhood Summit: The Impact of Fathers on Child Well-Being, in October, 2009. Amy volunteers in her daughter's elementary school, serves on two Carroll County Public Schools committees and is involved in her local church.
Our faithful volunteers: Karen Bullard - Director of Fund Development, Janice Holsonbake - bookkeeper, Alan & Faye Lerman, Sandie Parrish, Susan Black, Marcie Lenick, Lindsey DuVall, Jennifer Cassell, and Ruth Ann Rousy. "Make It Last" instructors: Ken and Sue Emerick, and Joe and Katie Neflen.
