Iryna Karkhut turned to the Lord at the age of nineteen. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Lviv State University named after I. Ya. Franko. For many years, she worked as a journalist at Ternopil State Television.
In 2002, she immigrated to the USA with her family (Sacramento, California). Member of Grace Avenue Bible Church in Sacramento.
Author of Christian television programs “In the Beginning Was the Word,” “House Built by Wisdom,” numerous publications, Christian radio and television broadcasts about heroes of faith. Creative website: http://www.heroes-of-faith.com
Iryna loves poetry and writes poems for God’s glory. Member of the editorial board and permanent host of the “Mission Today” column in the magazine “God’s Vineyard” of the Pacific Association of Evangelical Christians-Baptists. In 2022, Iryna’s poetry was published in the almanac “New Times.”
Together with her husband Mykhailo, they raised two children.