Minister Rose Marie Bruno

The former Rose Marie Butera, youngest of 14 siblings, was raised in a godly home and reared in Rochester, New York. At the tender age of 14, she showed a heart of sensitivity to the Lord and became active in her church, teaching in the Sunday School Program and playing the piano during the services. Possessing a quiet, shy nature as a child, she nonetheless grew into women committed to service unto the Lord. As the First Lady of Nutley Abundant Life Worship Center Church, she is revered for her ability to Mother everyone that she comes in contact with. Her life has taken her in diverse directions to reach this point in her life.

She raised her first born son while on the road traveling with her husband during their days as a Church and Tent Evangelism Ministry in the United States. Her role was not only as young, first-time mother, but also as the pianist and organist at each tent service and crusade. As her life changed to that as a pastor’s wife at their first pastorate in Jamestown, New York, she would birth 2 more children while accompanying the worship of every service playing the piano, organ or the accordian. She ran various aspects of the church and participated in countless others. They included: Superintendant of the Sunday School Program and a part
of the D.O.R.C.A.S Ministry (dedicated to meeting the needs of traveling ministries and visiting missionaries). Her life would change again in their second pastorate in Nutley, New Jersey where she would birth her final child, raise them and have her ministries expand to include those previously mentioned, in addition to counseling, women’s ministry, starting and maintaining a large bookstore, teacher and leader. Not being able to find anymore time in the day, and having raised her children, she accepted full-time paid employment at Nutley in 1997. She now travels to speak at conferences and prayer breakfasts, and maintains a steady diet of teaching and preaching in Nutley. She has traveled with her husband abroad to minister in the Holy Land and Argentina. She is the co-host of a vibrant television ministry that is aired throughout the Tri-State Area each week on numerous cable networks that reach a potential audience of 3.5 million viewers. She even found the time to earn a Ministerial Degree from Logos Bible College, (Bronx, New York). Her scope of influence has not only provided help to her husband, but to her children, grandchildren, congregants and community as well.

Minister Rose Marie and her husband Bishop Bruno, Sr., married since June 1958, have raised four children, and currently enjoy 13 grandchildren. Their two sons are full-time Pastor’s in New Jersey and their two daughters are active with them in church ministry in Nutley.