Welcome! Stop by regularly from January - March 2025 for exciting stories on this site
- Kryhin info from Lydia 4-14-23 April 21, 2023
April 16, 2023 from Lydia Bauer: I’ve been communicating with cousin Alla Kryhina Simonok a lot recently and asked her for some birth and death dates for our grandparents. Alla is Cousin Victor’s sister whose son Roma was killed the first week of the war during Kharkiv bombings. Roma was buried in a collapsed building, then ...Read more - Dr. Richard Berendt Receives 2022 Patient Experience Award in Alberta January 3, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Richard Berendt of Edmonton, Alberta and colleagues for being awarded the 2022 HQCA (Health Quality Council of Alberta) Patient Experience Award. At the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton, Alberta, these pathologists create X-ray images of breast cancer tissue being removed in real time to enable precise cancer location and removal in ...Read more - Thanksgiving 1996 November 24, 2022
Thanksgiving 1996 Here is one of my first postings on my kubik.org website: November 28, 1996 Today is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. It’s a special day that focuses on gratitude. I’d like to share some thoughts with you… I am very thankful to live in one of the richest places on earth. Not only are we materialy ...Read more - LifeNets 2021 Annual Report August 7, 2022
LifeNets 2021 Annual ReportRead more - My Mother Nina in Germany During World War II April 23, 2022
My Mother Nina in Germany During World War IIRead more - A Conversation With God April 15, 2022
Dealing with the anguish of the war in Ukraine. An extended relative of mine, Tatiana (my cousin Victor’s daughter-in-law’s brother’s wife) sent this most inspiring essay from western Ukraine. She left Kyiv, Ukraine with her 6-month-old son Glib to get away from the rockets and mortars. She left with my cousin Victor and settled with ...Read more - Starting them Young! Song by Kids in Zambia February 22, 2022
In Chipata, Zambia February 2022. Starting them young. Prov 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeQ_W4VjYXERead more - Little Pastor for Zambia February 21, 2022
Update on little Pastor Gift who is now five years old. On January 20, 2022 Filius and Chosiwe wrote us: I am sad to report that our amazing “pastor” Gift is in an unpleasant situation. His mother has left the Church and will not allow the kid to come for Sabbath worship. It is heart-rending to find ...Read more - Waking and Sleeping February 20, 2022
(By an 80-year-old woman a friend knows) Last night I woke and lay in bed As countless thoughts ran through my head. Why am I still here I pondered? What use am I, old and worn out? I wondered. MY youth is spent, my strength is gone. I can do little for anyone. IF loving is serving, and caring is giving, then our ...Read more - Long Long Ago…. January 2, 2022
William May died on January 1, 2022. What sad news! Over more than three years he sent me nearly 20 poems that always lifted my spirits and with their tone they optimistically evoked God’s presence and optimistically kindled my hope. You can read all of William May’s poems at: https://kubik.org/category/poetry/wdm/ I posted his last poem on Dec. ...Read more