Her Mission Statement

Rose Marie was a spiritual mother in the family of God, bringing a deeply compassionate mother’s heart to her Prayer Counseling ministry. Her goal was to always teach you the Five R’s for Healing: Recognition of areas of bondage, Repentance of sin, Release into new destiny, Reckon as dead old ways of behaving, and Resurrect to new life. She shared these biblical truths in an empathetic, gentle way resulting in the Holy Spirit bringing lasting conviction and repentance to the heart of her clients.

Her Specialties:

Out of Rose Marie’s own healing from darkness and grief pain, due to her very dysfunctional childhood, and out of her extensive training and experience, she was able to bring God’s Truth to adult singles, married couples, and children suffering from: denial, wounded burden-bearing hearts, co-dependency, rejection and neglect, adult children of alcoholics, and poor self-esteem to mention a few areas. It was her joy and privilege to see you walk out into your true God-given destiny and calling.

She also had great success and extensive experience in bringing healing to the following issues and core problems: anxiety, fear, sexual integrity, grief and loss, depression, parenting challenges, postpartum depression, trauma recovery, internalized anger issues, bullying and violence (with children), anorexia, and divorce recovery.

She worked tirelessly to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to everyone she met, at the grocery store, hair salon or at restaurants. In her counseling office she would evangelize the areas of the hearts of her clients who still had not completely grasped every area of Gospel freedom.  This is her enduring legacy in life in general and in her work as a prayer counselor.

Her Background:

Rose Marie was the founder of Freedom House Ministry (FHM) at the age of 63. She was a seminar speaker and Bible teacher for groups of all ages. In the 1990’s, she became an ordained minister with the International Assemblies of God. Among other teachings, Rose Marie also taught a foundational class on biblical bitter root principles for teens at Family Fellowship Christian School. Finally, she directed many FHM video facilitated Schools, graduating about a hundred students from the Internship Program which she established, creating and/or compiling over 500 professional documents for the program curriculum. At 84 years of age, she was still active as a Prayer Counselor including phone and correspondence ministry, Counselor Consultant, Lead Intercessor, and was active as a FHM Board Member.

Her Roots:

Rose Marie grew up in the Taylor Street neighborhood of Chicago known as “Little Italy.” She was born again when she attended Billy Graham’s famous, 1964 crusade in Chicago and has been spirit-filled since 1971. She began a Charismatic Prayer Group in her church soon after receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Eventually, she moved to an area in Chicago called “The Island” near Oak Park, IL where she resided until her death.

Her Family:

Rose Marie is the mother of three beyond-helpful adult children, mother-in-law to one son-in-law, grandmother to three attentive, respectful, appreciative adult grandchildren, and great grandmother to three precious great-grandsons and two priceless great-granddaughters. She also has countless “spiritual” children, who are very proud and so thankful to call her their Spiritual Mother.