The Marriage Initiative unites visionary marriage leaders who desire to connect and serve with intentional purpose in their respective communities.

Our Mission

To form advisory panels of like-minded individuals with the shared passion of wanting to strengthen marriages in their cities.

• Build Trust: To work together, we must know and trust one another.
• Empower: Help people use their unique talents to work in their highest and best roles.
• Find a Sense of Shared Identity: Unite, partner, and work together, instead of in isolation.

 

Our Vision

To elevate the importance of marriage through leadership teams collectively and collaboratively working together.

We Help in 3 Ways

  1. Frame a community vision appropriate for your community with a compelling message.

  2. Connect:

    *With other leaders

    *Provide support

    *Offer Resources

  3. Empower people broadly across your community and help them overcome obstacles, so everyone's work is more effective.

Scott Goodson

Movements are about mobilizing people around shared purpose.

Why a Local Marriage Initiative?

  1. It builds capacity. It brings more people to the mission of solving large-scale problems.

  2. We have to help one another. We must know one another to have that trust and respect needed to depend on each other.

  3. People think and act locally. Problems are best solved at a community level driven by local people with local knowledge and it will help resources flow to the right people.

  4. Builds relationships. Being united on a team with built-in support and energy, makes everyone’s efforts more meaningful.

  5. We all have the opportunity to change the way the world talks about marriages. By offering support and effective resources we can invest in the building up and strengthening of the most valuable relationship in the home.

Statement of Faith

We believe…

The Bible is the divinely inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God.

(2 Tim: 3:15-17; 2 Pet. 1:21; 1 Thess. 2:13)

We believe that God delightfully created and established each person as either male or female. These two distinct, complementary sexes together reflect the image and nature of God (Gen. 1:26-27). 

We believe that the term “marriage” has only one meaning: the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as described in Scripture (Gen. 2:18-25).

We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other (1 Cor. 6:18; 7:2-5; Heb. 13:4).

We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. We believe that any form of sexual immorality (including adultery, fornication, homosexual behavior, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, or use of pornography) is sinful and offensive to God (Matt. 15:18-20; 1 Cor. 6:9-10).

We believe that God offers redemption and restoration to all who confess and forsake their sin, seeking His mercy and forgiveness through Jesus Christ (Acts 3:19-21; Rom. 10:9-10; 1 Cor. 6:9-11).

Meet the Marriage Initiative Team

  • Carl Caton

    PRESIDENT & FOUNDER

  • Nora Rodriguez

    CHURCH LIAISON & MINISTRY DIRECTOR

  • Carlos Rodriguez

    CHURCH LIAISON & MINISTRY DIRECTOR

  • Dionna Sanchez

    DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

  • Eliseo Sanchez

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATONS

  • Kay Hanson

    DiRECTOR OF MARRIAGE LEADER NETWORK

  • Steffanie Oltmans

    DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY MARRIAGE INITIATIVES

  • Amy Salzwedel

    HR/FINANCE DIRECTOR

  • Tausha Hamilton

    ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER

  • Anna Panter

    DONOR DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

  • Amy Morgan

    FEATURE WRITER

  • Taylor Abrahamsen

    RESEARCH AND NEWSLETTERS

  • Jina Rios

    SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR

  • Megan Frommel

    SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR

  • Rickari McCain

    COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT

  • Addison Oltmans

    VISUAL DESIGNER

  • Josette Chavez

    NMW MINISTRY ENGAGEMENT COORDINATOR

  • Scott Oltmans

    LOCAL FRAMEWORKS

  • Tamlyn Sheng

    GRAPHIC DESIGNER

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

  • Carl Caton, PRESIDENT

    Businessman

    Board Member - NARME National Association of Relationship & Marriage Educators

    Directing Manager - National Marriage Week

  • Nora Rodriguez, SECRETARY

    Co Founder - The Relational Wellness Center

    Certified Life Coach and Pastoral Counselor

    Certified Prepare Enrich Seminar Director

    Certified by Family Dynamics Institute

  • Jeff Kemp, BOARD MEMBER

    Founder, Men Huddle Ministry

    Board Member - Fatherhood CoMission

    Author, Facing the Blitz

    Jeff and his wife, Stacy, are also Weekend to Remember Speakers

  • Dennis Stoica, BOARD MEMBER

    Businessman

    Board Member - Live the Life - Florida

    Board Member - NARME National Association of Relationship and Marriage Educators

    Co-founder of the California Healthy Marriages Coalition

    Founder of the Orange County Marriage Resource Center

    Smart Marriages IMPACT Award Winner

We’d love to get to know you better!

Would you like to connect with us regarding ministering to marriages in your area?