Actually, it’s less like a new job and more like a new vocation.
I was sadly made redundant from a role I love at Focus on the Family Australia – that was a toughie to work my way through.
Gladly, though I very quickly found work with a company called Instal-life, which instals Christian Satellite TV into private homes. Wayne Knapman, who heads up Instal-life also is the Australian representative for GodTV. These two Christian ministries support each other very well.
This role came to light in my normal dealings with Wayne, as Focus on the Family Aus and Instal-life had a marketing partnership. I had contacted Wayne to let him know that I was leaving Focus and told him who he should contact in my abscence and to cut a not so long story short – I met with him and his wife, Anne-Katrine, and I guess you could say “the rest is history”!
My initial role is to help write the Instal-Life procedures manual and when that is done, it’s likely that I’ll be working with Wayne in a personal assistant role. I’ll also get involved with helping the sales team call the back log of leads to get Christian TV in as many homes as we can across Australia and New Zealand.
Last Friday we had some fun at the office – Missions Week is starting mid-March on GodTV and apparently the Australian office will be featured as part of the global outreach (oh, I forgot to mention that GodTV is based in the UK). Anyway, so that the world can see who we are, a cameraman came by the office and filmed us all ‘at work’ – it was heaps of fun and interesting to see how videos etc are put together!
I guess we will only see the final product when it’s being shown on GodTV next month – and it will be shown all around the world! Eeeek!
