Newsletters & Updates

Read the latest from Larry and Deborah Mininger. Below you will find a excerpts of newsletters, articles and updates on the Miningers and Lamp Lighters International. Simply click a title to read more.

OVER 2,100 VICTORIES IN UKRAINE

Dear friends and partners, here is a short video clip of what you did for over 2100 young people in the orphans and war children summer camps and Christmas programs in 2023. It is the largest and most impactful response that all of us together have ever made: $10,000...

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UKRAINIAN WAR TIME KIDS CAMP

~Mission News~ Ukrainian War Time Kids Camps July 17th & July 24 th Larry and Deborah Mininger   We have been in touch with Pastor Zhenya in Ukraine this week concerning his vision for conducting 2 one-week kids camps in mid-July. This year he has in his...

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FEB 2023 WAR TIME CHRISTMAS IN UKRAINE

War Time Christmas for Children The Back Story   Two weeks prior to Christmas, Larry and Deborah learned that Zhenya was serious about holding a special event for children in Ukraine. We wanted to help make it happen. In an email newsletter we made an appeal for...

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Miningers Mission Moments – Last Newsletter of 2022

Personal Note: Deborah and I want to say thank you to all our friends, partners, and family for standing with us so faithful in 2022. You have made it possible for us to extend our ministry another year to thousands when we combine Ukraine, Estonia, and Finland. God...

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FINLAND AND UKRAINE UPDATE FOR MAY 2, 2022

Miningers Mission Moments May 2022 Newsletter Congratulations!             Our dear friend, Pastor Johanna and her husband Atte just returned to Helsinki Finland.  They were here to celebrate her graduation from Advantage College. She was the first from her country to...

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Mission Moments – Personal Update on Ukraine

About one hour ago (at this writing), we had a video chat with Pastor Valentina in Xmelnitski, UA. She is the founding pastor where Deb and I helped her plant the Dawn of Life Church in 1991. They received our second LLIM gift of humanitarian relief within a couple...

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MININGER’S MISSION MOMENTS FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Mininger’s Mission Moments February 22   Finland In Sight While the pandemic was serious and took many lives, the good news is that it’s winding down. The damage on the mission front has earmarks of a battlefield. Some churches have closed, others have withdrawn...

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LLIM MISSION MOMENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 2021

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Mininger Mission Moments June 2021

Rejoice With Us             Last year in January and February (before Covid hit), Deb and I were in Tallinn, Estonia joined by our overseer Harold Presley. We were planting a new Russian church. I wrote about it in an earlier newsletter. The Bible says, “Rejoice with...

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Special LLIM Memorial Edition for Rev. James Phelps

Special LLIM Memorial Edition For Rev. Jim Phelps             James Ray Phelps Jr. at 75 passed away on Feb. 4th, 2021. He was born Jan. 22nd, 1946 in Concord, NC. He is survived by his wife, Shirley Ann Phelps, his son Jason and Vena Phelps, daughter Jennifer Phelps,...

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