Luke's New Job

Well for those of you who don't know yet, Luke got a new job. He starts tomorrow (Thursday) in Sisters at Rescue Response Gear.
There really is no other explanation for this career change than Jesus.
Luke leads worship out in Sisters once a month, one of the guys that is on his team owns Rescue Response Gear. He came up to Luke after service last month and basically said, "My wife and I were praying about who to hire for this opening we have in the company and your name kept coming up, what exactly is your work experience, and what are your goals/dreams?"
After Luke explained to him what he has been doing in Outside Sales for CED, and told him where he wanted to go with it, etc. Lance got a smile on his face and said "apparently God does know what he's doing because that's exactly what we need at RRG"
So Luke went out to meet with him at the company (all the while, not looking for a new job) just to see what exactly he was offering.
He gets there and finds 6 employees (6 employees for a company that is the 4th largest of it's kind in the world) who all love Jesus and are filled with the Holy Spirit.
He fell in love with the work atmosphere (not hard to do after working for CED for over 5 years..)
The job that Lance offered him is a significantly higher salary than CEDs, and he will eventually be traveling internationally (and I will be going with him) which is something that we have really wanted to do, but it just doesn't work into the plan when you both work full-time... but having someone else pay for the trip AND getting paid to be there definitely helps out that situation!

So he starts on Thursday, and he's really excited.

Basically he will be doing Research & Development, Sales & Marketing and customer service. He'll be going to the occasional trade show to market their products, and he'll be going out to the "mountain" to try out new product and write up articles/reviews on the products he tries.

This job ties in really well with his Firefighter experience too, since he used a lot of this gear back in the day..

oh.. a bit on the company (or you can click on the picture at the top that will take you to their website) Rescue Response Gear specializes in technical rescue and rope access equipment; they work with Fire Departments and Training Facilities, Federal, State and County Agencies (needing rescue and rope access equipment and training), Public Utility Companies, Tower Erector Companies, Public and Private Industry (needing rescue and rope access equipment and training), as well as Search and Rescue Organizations. (the company that cleans Mount Rushmore is one of their clients.. because they have to repel down the side of the mountain and set up scaffolding to be able to clean it)

so all in all.. Luke's excited, and I'm excited to have a husband that is actually excited to go to work in the mornings (but not excited that he will be all the way in sisters, and not be able to stop by my office all the time)