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Send us Fan Mail In this powerful episode of the Redeemed Podcast, host Lauren Burns sits down with Sylvia Puentes Hopper—speaker, mentor, and Kingdom influencer—to share a raw and life-changing testimony of grief, spiritual battle, and radical redemption. Sylvia opens up about the devastating loss of her father who was murdered when she was just one year old, and how she spent nearly 40 years grieving a man she never truly knew. Her unresolved pain led her into seasons of anger toward God,...
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