Children's Home in Southern Asia

In July, 2003 we provided 22 monitors to be shipped overseas to complete a computer training lab at a Children's Home in Southern Asia.. Monitors will also be used on computers used in the city offices of the AG. These offices include the children’s feeding program, literature distribution, and a Bible school.

Robert Craig first asked us to provide 15 of the 30 monitors needed for this project, because he had feelers out to several other organizations for monitors, and was expecting some from them. His primary requirement was that the monitors had to work on 220v. We gave him 15 monitors, mostly 14 inch or 15 inch.

Luke 6:38 says "Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." and Mark 4:8 says "Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times." Both verses indicate that when you give, you can expect to get back more than you give, and that was certainly true for us, because a couple of days later he came by to give us eighteen 17 inch monitors that had come in from one of his other sources. He could not use them, because they only worked on 110 volts (but that was fine for use in the United States.

They were about to load their shipping container, and were still a few monitors short, so we gave him an additional seven 14 or 15 inch monitors that would work at 220v.

With the shipping container loaded and shipped out, we assumed that was the end of that story, at least as far as we were concerned. Boy were we wrong.

In February 2004 a new volunteer joined HelpingTulsa. Lee Pang was very interested in learning computer refurbishing, and was hoping he could persuade others at his church into setting up a computer refurbishing operation there. He came over to my house almost every day for a couple of weeks, and we went through almost every computer I had in my garage. We scrapped a number of machines that we could not get to work, and set up 16 machines with our Bible image suitable for use in churches, and 12 machines with our Senior image suitable for use in Senior Citizen Centers.

During this processing we uncovered three Pentium II computers, and three hard drives that were 8 Gig or more, so we set up 3 Image Machines. We did not currently have computer refurbishing projects that needed the Image Machines, other than possibly Lee Pang's, should he find enough people at his church interesting in setting up their own Computer Refurbishing operation, but we knew they would be used eventually. We were right.

Thursday morning, February 26, I received an email from Robert Craig saying "I'm heading to BD on Saturday (for two weeks) to help with computer-related needs there at the AG facilities, partly to install the monitors you donated..... I'm also interested if you could recommend any good trouble-shooting software for PC work. There are also a lot of laptops and desktops I'll be working on, and I will be taking some basic hand tools (screwdriver, pliers, solder iron, etc.) I am open to any and all suggestions."

Robert was leaving the country in 48 hours, so there would have been no time to start building something for him to take, but God knew that Robert was going to have this need, and He sent Lee Pang several weeks earlier, so there in my workroom were three Image Machines Lee Pang and I had built, therefore I responded to Robert: "Did I give you one of our Clone 4.1 disks? It has the utilities we use in refurbishing. If not, and if you can stop by I can give you one. And if you can carry a desktop with you, I can even provide you with an Image Machine which we use to transfer a complete operating system plus application programs to hard disks."

Robert replied "The imaging system, if I can figure out how to take it, can be very useful, especially with needing to get a bunch of PCs up and in running order. Does this image include any educational software, typing skills, geography, math, etc. I am gathering shareware to help at the children's home in their computer lab."

I gave him a CD with some educational software (10 files0, including a typing tutor, that I had found on the internet and had checked out, plus another CD with a lot more educational software (38 files) that I had found, but had not yet checked out, and I gave him 14 links that I had located three weeks earlier for another computer refurbishing project working on computers for children:

We have an Awesome God. It boggles the imagination to see how what appeared to us at the time to be unrelated acts, came together in A Plan and how we were able to be a small part of His Plan.

Click here to see a photo of the machines Robert used the Image Machine to set up.

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