WHO
WE ARE
Our talented team is dedicated to helping those on the margins of society. We welcome the uniqueness and honor the dignity of every student so that each student feels deeply loved and cared for. We come alongside individuals who have little or no hope in their future and restore hope through high-impact career training and life coaching.
TEAM MEMBERS.
Rob Purvis
Program Director
Imagine a young man in Alaska floundering for direction and needing a break! Years ago, before he found a personal relationship with Jesus, Rob Purvis was that guy. Little did he realize that God wanted him to help guys who were incarcerated in one of California’s most notorious prisons. Rob attended welding school, joined the Ironworker’s Union, and began his career as a welder. After ten years in the welding trade, he switched gears and went to work teaching welding to convicts at Folsom State Prison. He considered it a real privilege to see the men he trained immediately become employed as ironworkers, pipefitters, piledrivers once paroled. Currently, Rob’s passion is to share his faith in Christ through welding education at ReIGNITE Hope Sacramento. He feels God gave him a “second chance,” and desires to pass those blessings along to others. Rob is a certified welding inspector, certified welding educator and former AWS Director for Northern California.
Brandon Beattie
Volunteer Welding Instructor
I am an International Welding Technologist (IWT) and AWS Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) who is currently employed with STV Inc. as well as an Adjunct-Welding Instructor at American River College in Sacramento C.A.I specialize in welding inspection, providing oversight, surveillance, and in process and final inspections on Locomotives, and passenger rail coaches. My passion is welding procedure development for both manual and robotic welding using a wide variety of materials and welding processes, and hands on training for welders to optimize weld quality and productivity. I am an ARC alumni and have experience as a welder, welding specialist, and inspector in various codes. I have worked for various organizations including Siemens, Fronius, Kratos Defense and Security, and have traveled all over the world with my trade. As your lab instructor, I will provide useful insight to code welding applications and have a passion to help students succeed! We will get you going in the direction of welding you want! After a difficult upbringing and early adulthood, through Church, God blessed me with the gift and passion for welding. My mission is to share this gift and the good news of the Gospel with everyone. I am living proof that God is in the 180 business and can turn it all around.
