✝️ Even the Circuits Serve Preview Only
Summary Even the Circuits Serve
“Whatever you do, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus.” (Col. 3:17) Technology is a servant, not a master. This booklet frames phones, laptops, and networks as assignments to steward—helping families, building businesses, spreading the Gospel—while refusing idolatry, exploitation, and waste. We trade hype for holiness: secure data, honest supply chains, repair over replacement, and transparent end of life.
- Heart: Wisdom over novelty; Sabbath over addiction; people over pixels.
- Hands: Refurbish first, harvest parts next, and only then recycle with audited downstreams.
- Rails: Chain of custody, verified data erasure, worker safety, and public reporting.
When circuits serve Christ, devices extend dignity—connecting job seekers, students, and elders while our systems keep toxic waste and data breaches out of the community.
⚠️ Giant Warning
The Big Lie About Green Electronics
Tricks to watch for:
- “Free pickup” with no audit: devices vanish into brokers and many are exported.
- Recycling logos are not proof without published downstreams or worker protections.
- Trade-in shell games: perfectly good devices shredded then resold for parts.
- Data-wipe claims with no serial numbered certificates or chain of custody.
- Locked hardware to force replacement while boasting “sustainability.”
- Pop-up drives with no EIN, no receipts, no reporting.
Protect your people and your data. Only trust staffed, auditable intake with receipts and verifiable erasure. Neighbors first. Evidence over marketing.
- Use staffed, auditable intake only. Get a receipt that lists device type, model, and serial or IMEI.
- Require verifiable data erasure with a serial numbered certificate (or physical destruction on request).
- Ask for downstream disclosure: where non reusable parts go, which smelter, which recycler.
- Right to Repair: choose partners who repair before they replace and sell parts or devices affordably.
- Sign out of accounts, remove SIMs, and encrypt before drop off if possible; never hand devices to anonymous collectors.
Our Electronics Plan Even the Circuits Serve in Practice
- Secure Intake and Triage: staffed hubs with posted EIN, photo ID check, itemized receipts (type, model, serial), and locked storage.
- Data Security: verifiable erasure with serialized certificates; on site drive destruction available; strict chain of custody.
- Refurbish First: repair and clean for affordable resale or donation; provide chargers and batteries; load basic accessibility apps.
- Parts Harvest: pull good boards, displays, RAM, SSDs, fans, and screws; inventory for future repairs and training.
- Responsible Recycling: non repairable materials go only to audited downstreams; no export dumping; PPE and safe handling.
- Training and Jobs: Comp repair basics, soldering, ESD safety, help desk etiquette; pathways to certifications and employment.
- Community Tech Bar: walk up diagnostics, password help, backups, and safety checks for elders and students.
- Public Dashboard: devices received, refurbished, donated or sold affordably, parts harvested, pounds responsibly recycled, wipes certified.
- No Brokers No Greenwash: we disclose the flow; neighbors first; evidence over marketing.