Turnout was better August 1. Jim Keith, Sherman Mullis, Jim Erwin, and Fermin Oliverra were there. Sheman is the pastor of the New Beginnings Church of God and he brought a computer that had been donated to his church which had a bad mother board, and we replaced the mother board, but had problems with an apparent bad power supply. After a frustrating hour or two we moved on to a couple of other computers to see if we could get another machine operational from some new donations we had just received, that we could give the good reverand, but our effors there seemmed plaged with problems, so we will have to wait until our August 22 meeting to see if we can get something working for Pastor Mullis.

Last month I told you how Jim Erwin was from the Belize Bible & Trade School, and how he was hoping to set up a program like our Refurbishing Computers project in Belize (Belize lies on the eastern coastline of Central America, bordered on the north by Mexico, on the west and south by Guatemala, and on the east by the Caribbean Sea. It is separated by sea from its neighbor to the southwest, Honduras) to teach disadvantaged kids how to repair computers (a trade which should guarantee them very good employment in the technology starved Belize.) Jim had spent a number of hours this past week building shelves in the rooms we use at Bethesda Boys Ranch, so that the systems we were working on could be somewhat better organized, and he brought Fermin Olivera with him. Fermin is from Belize, and will be working with our project here in the US after Jim goes back to Belize, and trying to learn enough about computer repair that he and Jim can set up a program like ours in Belize.

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