This is the New Dimensions team during a retreat in the Swiss mountains. Back from left: Daniel Reichert, Eva & Fred Ryter, Monika Reichert Front: Olivia & Sophie Reichert
Als New Dimensions Team war 2009 insgesamt ein Jahr der Vorbereitung: Teamfindung, Stiftungsgründung, Hauskauf und –renovation. Im Sommer 2010 wird Reicherts 3. Kind geboren :-)
It takes a bit longer than anticipated. The ceiling is not made of concrete but plastered reed! Fred our handyman had to figure out how to mount the insulation without having the ceiling come down.
It is exciting to have Fred in our team, who is good with his hands.
That is very “handy” in Albania, and Fred is kept busy repairing anything that is broken.
This is a special blessing when his practical gifting flows together with his fathers heart, as shown in the picture where he involves the children from the orphanage.
This is the building we purchased in October: it is a house with 3 rooms with a shop attached; Fred and Eva will be living in 2 rooms, the other one will serve as our prayer room; on one side of the shop we will put up our community kitchen and the shop will serve as a multi-purpose room for our little community.
New Dimensions is now in the process of being registered as an Albanian foundation. Daniel drove up to Tirana to meet our lawyer and to go to the notary.
End of June the Reichert-family moved into our newly renovated flat in Memaliaj. Living on the 3rd floor (s. photo, top floor) is quite different to our basement-apartment in Gjirokastra.
We are planning to move to Memaliaj in April basically starting this new ministry from scratch. That’s why we are really encouraged by what we experienced the last couple of weeks:
Dana (name is changed) got my attention for the first time, when I bought some items in her little shop. She is a sensitive person, able to sense other people’s needs.
Until recently we, the Reichert-family, were carrying the vision of New Dimensions on our own. We met Fred and Eva Ryter in the summer of 2007 and got to appreciate them and their cordiality and warmheartness. Inwardly we hoped to be able to work together with them, yet we did not want to thwart the plans, they had already made.