With gruff fatherly love Leanna’s dad Joe used to look into her face and say, “You can do anything you want to if you want to do it bad enough!” He 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 had helped her parents design and build four homes while living in a twelve-foot camper often without electricity or running water. At sixteen, with a handicapped horse and almost no instruction, she became the youngest rider to win a national and regional equestrian championship.A self-declared atheist, on March 28 1986 at age fifteen Leanna experienced a dramatic spiritual epiphany in which she met Jesus face-to-face. From that point she became a passionate Christian. Through dreams and supernatural guidance God commissioned her to go to a far-away land “to rescue those trapped in darkness.” Living directly with the native people, she subjected herself to the rigors of a developing country including drinking putrid water from village wells and subsisting on survival-level rations. In 1997 Leanna and her mom Kathy founded a nonprofit organization which is now known as WIN (We Ignite Nations). The first project to help low income villagers was funded by selling the last thing Leanna owned – her horse. By equipping and empowering the native people to serve their own communities, Leanna and her teams have catalyzed movements which continue to result in hundreds of thousands of people saved, transformed and rescued out of slavery. Today, WIN's focus is on igniting sustainable solutions to poverty and virtually ending human trafficking and other forms of slavery in target areas. Some of these projects are literally influencing nations. Leanna's first book “Treasures in Dark Places” published by Chosen/Baker Publishing Group was released in January 2017. Her second book, "Your Secret Calling: Ancient Keys to unleash God's highest purpose," releases July 2nd 2024. This book encapsulates Leanna's fifteen year journey of discovering and field testing a little-known pathway to bring hope, healing and purpose into every sector of life. Leanna is a globally influential motivational speaker, helping others to discover the power of God’s purpose for their lives and the adventure of influencing the world toward God's good purposes of life, love and liberty. EDUCATION:* Youth With A Mission (1992-1994)* M.Div., Fuller Theological Seminary (2005)* D.Min. & Outstanding Graduate Award, Regent University (2011) * Honorary Doctorate, Wagner Leadership InstituteENDORSEMENTS * "For a decade I have known and worked with Leanna and many of the dear believers we both count as “Treasures”. This is “Book of Acts” territory and proof the Gospel is the greatest force on earth. I commend to you her adventure and pray you will share in it." ~Dr. Tom Hatley, Sr. Pastor, Immanuel Baptist Church, Rogers, AR & former Chairman, International Mission Board. * "Do you ever get tired of mundane, lifeless churchianty and long for the God of the Bible to burst out of man made boxes and into action? If so, wait no longer. Leanna Cinquanta has experienced the compassion and power of God at work today and has captured some of these stunning stories in her book, Treasures in Dark Places. Your heart will burn and your faith will be activated as she takes you on her journey of mystery and revelation, trial and triumph." ~James W Goll, Founder of God Encounters, Best Selling Author, International Speaker, Life Language Trainer * “Leanna Cinquanta is a pure antidote to complacency. She leaves hearts that are burning with the zeal of the Lord and motivated to do their part in the transformation of nations. She is global impact wrapped in a tiny frame and releases both personal heart challenge and world changing strategies.” ~Charles and Ann Stock, Life Center Ministries, PA* "Leanna will ignite your faith, capture your heart and renew your vision to believe for the impossible. Your heart will be stirred, and there’s no telling what God might call forth in your own life. ~Rev. Gary Wilkerson, World Challenge and Springs Church, CO* “Treasures in Dark Places is compelling, heart-wrenching and beautifully written. Leanna reminds us that the need in the earth may be great, but our God is so much greater." ~Dr. Ché Ahn, HROCK Church, Harvest International Ministry & Wagner Leadership Institute, Pasadena, CA* “She speaks a bold clarion call to step aside from small ambitions into an inheritance of impacting the world.” ~Julie Ross writing about Leanna in the book "The Black Swan Effect"* "Rarely does a literary work juxtapose both a poignant narrative and a powerful mission in such a balanced manner; but Leanna Cinquanta has accomplished just that in Treasures in Dark Places. This book is a must-read for anyone with God’s heart for the most vulnerable in the most difficult places. Leanna masterfully weaves her tome in a manner that will leave the reader changed forever." ~Barry C Howard, World Relief CFOENDORSEMENTS FOR NEWEST BOOK, "YOUR SECRET CALLING"“Leanna has written the most clearly articulated account that I have ever read about the potential of everyday people to transform brokenness to wholeness and lack to plenty, and in the process, find their own highest purpose."Darrow Miller - Co-Founder Disciple Nations Alliance“By implementing these “keys" on a large scale, the Body of Christ is being called to ignite the most significant move of God in history!"Dr. Ché Ahn - Senior Leader, Harvest Rock Church, Pasadena, CA - President, Harvest International Ministry, International Chancellor, Wagner University“Your Secret Calling will stir everything in you and call you to action. A must-read."Patricia King - Author, Minister, Media Producer, and Host - Patricia King dot com. “The book in your hands is not another academic treatise with interesting insights. The “secrets” that Leanna Cinquanta unfolds have already turned dead dry bones into thriving havens of abundant life."Vishal Mangalwadi - Revelation Movement dot comVisit WIN: WIN dot global Social media: WeIgniteNationsRead more about this authorRead less about this author