Hello friends and family,

I’m still a little jet lagged as I write this update, but it feels good to be “home” in Cambodia. Benjamin is building a fort in the garden with one of the neighbour children and I’m sitting under a fan and sipping on a cup of locally grown coffee.

We were in Switzerland from April 2nd through April 29th, and it was a great trip. We’re pretty exhausted, but it was still a great trip. We got to spend time with so many amazing people, and we learned that we need to schedule a vacation for ourselves, in the middle of the “vacation” otherwise we’re too busy.

The trip was both work and pleasure. We spend some quality time with family and caught up with many of our dear friends. We also needed to do some administrative work for the NGO we direct, Warm Blankets Switzerland. We  now have three new board members, a new accounting team, a newsletter team, and a new team member looking after the mailbox. We also had the opportunity to share at our church, Verein Quelle. We served appetizers after the service, which created a space to talk in more depth about our work and life in Cambodia. We were pleasantly surprised by the amount of interest and support we received.

We stayed with Lukas’ parents in St. Gallen, and with the Kull family in Kehrsatz. We’ve known the Kulls for about 10 years now, they visited us last year in Cambodia and have become good friends. They have a daylight basement guest studio with a separate entrance, and they were so kind to share it with us. They have three boys who Benjamin idolizes. He would even wait at the end of road for them to come home from school so that he could play with them.

The WB board was encouraged by our update from the last two years, and is supportive of the new projects that we’ve started to sponsor. The Lunch and Tutoring program will go on, and we hope that we can support more social projects similar to this one in the future.

Pastor Noeurn put together an interesting six month progress report for the Lunch and Tutoring program, including three “most significant change” stories which begin on the 4th page of the report. If you have a few minutes, it’s an interesting read with lots of photos. Here’s the link to his report. six month report

Well, that’s about it for this month, be sure to take a look at the photo link so you can see the video clip of Benjamin on skis in the Swiss Alps!

Here’s the photo link: May 2025