Pastor LaShunda Acosta, maiden name Clinkscales, has been activie in ministry for over 30 years. She is bilingual in English and Spanish. She studied 1 year of law at Greenville Technical College. She obtained an associate's degree in Business Management at Brown Mackie College. 

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She started singing on the radio live during Bishop Paul Clinkscales' (her father & pastor of Storehouse Ministries) weekly preaching broadcast in Belton, South Carolina. Her mother (Cynthia Cannon) currently an assistant pastor in Travelers Rest, South Carolina; reared Pastor LaShunda in being an honest woman of God. Pastor LaShunda began evangelizing at age 13.

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She started a Bible Study at the Boys Home of the South in 1999, which she taught for about 2 years. In year 2000, she started a Bible Study at Pendletton Place Children's Home, which she taught for about 2 years. In 2011, Reverend LaShunda Acosta began Light of the World Int'l Ministries which was a Bible Study and Outreach Ministry. In February 2017 she founded Light and Truth Int'l Ministries, this church, in Greenville , South Carolina; and was ordained as a pastor.