What caused you to move to northern India and began living directly with the native people?

Dr. Leanna Cinquanta is on this upcoming show. Leanna is a philanthropist, motivational speaker, business woman, equestrian and the founder of two organizations, WIN and WIN Life, based in Colorado, USA.

Leanna remembers her father looking into her face and saying "You can do anything you want to if you want do do it bad enough!" Her life is a testimony of this truth. Her faith taught her to fly a plane when she was nine years old and her mom, Kathy, home-schooled her until high school. By age fourteen, she has helped her parents design and build four homes. By sixteen, with a handicapped horse and very little instruction, she became the youngest rider in her region to win a national equestrian championship. At age fifteen, Leanna had a personal experience with Jesus and became a committed follower of Christ.

In 1996, she went to northern India and began living directly with the native people in the small towns and villages. She subjected herself to the rigors of a developing nation, including drinking putrid water from the village wells and surviving on rice and lentils. Seeing her love and willingness to live like one of them, the native people gave her the name, "Jyoti" saying "you brought light and hope into our difficult lives."

In 1997, Leanna founded the organization that would become WIN to share the love of Christ and to provide education and a brighter future to needy children. Today, 22 years later, that work has resulted in hundreds of thousands of live transformed. The story is now a book titled Treasures in Dark Places. With the founding of WIN in 2019, Leanna is following the heart of God to ignite hope, healing, and transformation across entire communities and nations.

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