Sad News

Yesterday afternoon we found out that Oksana's mother passed away yesterday morning. She died of a heart attack. She was 46. She battled poor health last year, but pulled through and was by all accounts on the road to recovery. So it was a big surprise to everyone.

Those of you who pray, please pray for Oksana and her family. She's understandably upset. She can't go to the funeral because it is on Saturday (they don't embalm or bury on a Sunday, so they can't move the funeral back). Since it's about an 18 hour trip with layover and immigration/customs she would have had to leave last night to make it. We're going to do some special stuff at our Ukrainian Church in Conyers (traditional third day [Sunday], ninth day [next Saturday] and 40th day [?-she'll be in Ukraine and I'll be in Jersey] services)