Lana Savchuk

Lana Savchuk was born in Moscow, Russia, a fifth-generation Christian and a pastor's daughter who grew up knowing about Jesus long before she knew Him personally. She moved to the United States in 2005 and encountered God in a way that changed everything.

Growing up as a Christian in Soviet society was not easy. "You were either looked down upon or people mocked you," she has shared. During her teenage years, she struggled to fit in, fell in with the wrong crowd, and spent time in the party lifestyle - searching for something she could not name. What she found eventually was not religion. It was freedom.

That freedom came at a cost. Early in her marriage to Vladimir Savchuk, lead pastor of HungryGen Church in Washington state, Lana went through a spiritual battle that she describes in this book with unusual honesty: nightmares, torment, depression, and an inability to pray. She received deliverance. And then she discovered that breaking mental strongholds required a second battle entirely.

That journey is what produced this book. Lana now ministers, speaks, and writes with the credibility of someone who has walked through both sides of freedom - not just the initial deliverance but the long work of renewing the mind, demolishing strongholds, and walking in the lasting freedom in Christ that most Christian books for women in this space never fully address.

Together with her husband, Vladimir, Lana leads HungryGen Church - a multi-cultural congregation dedicated to soul-winning, healing, deliverance, and the raising up of young leaders. Their ministry YouTube channel has 857K subscribers. They have one son, Samuel, born in 2024 after thirteen years of waiting.