Craig was ordained to the ministry of the United Methodist Church at the East Ohio Annual Conference, as a deacon in 1972 and as an elder in 1974, both ordinations by Bishop Francis Enmer Kearns.
In 1980 Craig was appointed the Director of the East Ohio Conference Council on Ministries.
Craig was elected a delegate to the 1980 and 1984 General and North Central Jurisdictional Conferences of the U.M.
Church, in 1980 also serving as the Secretary of the Legislative Committee on Higher Education and Ministry of the General Conference.
As a bishop, Craig served on the United Methodist General Commission on the Status and Role of Women (1984–88), the U.M.