Virginia Prodan - Wilberforce Weekend Speaker's Series
Breakpoint
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🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Virginia Prodan grew up in Communist Romania. Unaware of the truth about her own family — including why her family never showed the slightest hint of love toward her — she discovered God's Truth and Love as a teenager.
Virginia accepted the divine call to defend fellow followers of Christ against unjust persecution in an otherwise ungodly land as a human rights attorney.
For this act of treason, she came within seconds of being executed under the orders of Ceausescu himself. How Virginia not only managed to defeat her enemies time and again, but helped expose the appalling secret that would lead to the demise of Ceausescu's evil empire is one of the most extraordinary stories ever told.
BreakPoint This Week Co-Host and Wilberforce Weekend Emcee Maria Baer sat down with Virginia to discuss Virginia's session on forgiveness at the upcoming Wilberforce Weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Breakpoint podcast. Today, Maria Bear interviews Virginia Prodan, one of the |
| 0:04.7 | speakers at the upcoming Wilberforce weekend in May. Virginia details how God is calling her and equipping her |
| 0:10.8 | to live a life redeemed, a calling that extends even to those who tried to assassinate her. |
| 0:17.4 | Here's Maria Bear with Virginia Prodan. Well, I am here with Virginia Proden. She is going to be one of our |
| 0:24.2 | speakers at the Wilberforce weekend coming up soon. We're so excited to have her. Virginia, I've been |
| 0:29.7 | familiar with your story for a while now, and I can't wait to get to share it with our audience |
| 0:34.2 | and our partners at the Wilberforce weekend. And specifically, the theme this year is life redeemed. |
| 0:41.3 | And what we're really going to be diving into is we know that Jesus offers redemption. |
| 0:46.3 | Sometimes we can tend to think about that as a one-time thing, that Jesus saves us from our sins, |
| 0:52.3 | and that's a wonderful thing. And even if it were a one-time thing, |
| 0:55.8 | that would be enough and it would be incredible. But we know that as Christians, he saves us |
| 1:00.7 | to something and for something. And part of what he saves us too is a life free of bitterness and |
| 1:08.7 | anger that comes with being slaves to sin. And I know that that's part of what |
| 1:13.3 | you're going to be sharing with us on Saturday morning, is being free from bitterness and anger. |
| 1:18.4 | And if there's anyone who has a story that would justify being bitter or angry, it's you, Virginia. |
| 1:24.3 | You grew up under communism in Romania. and you had a very dark childhood, |
| 1:29.6 | as I understand. I know now that you are a resident of the United States, you're a citizen, |
| 1:35.4 | and you told me earlier that you are an adopted citizen of Texas, which is no small feat. |
| 1:41.2 | I understand they don't just adopt anybody as a Texan over there. So that's a, |
| 1:44.9 | that's great. But I wonder if we could start today. Well, I should say also, you also work as an |
| 1:50.9 | international human rights attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of human rights |
| 1:55.3 | around the world, which you are uniquely qualified to do. So before we get into, I'm just getting a little sneak peek of what you're going to be sharing |
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