The idea of the site “The Higgins Family – missionaries to Ukraine” arose following the death of my husband, Brian Higgins, whose life and ministry was suddenly cut short on the mission field, in L’viv, Ukraine, on December 15, 2007. His untimely passing into eternity brought deep sorrow to our family, relatives and friends of Brian, and many brothers and sisters in Christ, not only in America and Ukraine, but in many other countries as well (see the guest book). Over the past three months we received such an enormous amount of cards, letters, love offerings from churches and individuals, that it has not been possible to send personnal letters of thanks to each one.

On the opening page of this site I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the brothers and sisters in Christ and many other people for your prayers, for your moral, spiritual, physical and material help and for the support that you have shown to me and my family during this sorrowful time in our lives. Your help and support has been a tremendous blessing from the Lord.

“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” Proverbs 17:17. I saw for myself the how true these words are.

My special thanks also go to the builder of this site, a friend of our family, Sergiy Chepara (his web site iswww.sreport.bravehost.com), as well as to my brother Yura Popchenko and his wife Wendy who prepared the English version of the site (their web site is www.bibleua.com).

On the pages of this site, I would like to tell about the ministry which the Lord had entrusted to us in Ukraine and in this way honor the memory of a faithful servant of the Lord, my dear husband, Brian Higgins.

Respectfully Yours, Tanya Higgins