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Volunteer Ministers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Volunteer Minister program is a worldwide effort founded by the Church of Scientology International. The Volunteer Minister program most heavily promoted by Scientology took place in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, when approximately one thousand Scientologists were sent to New York City to participate in the relief efforts there. More recently, Volunteer Ministers have been sent to the site of relief efforts in Southeast Asia in the wake of the December 2004 tsunami and to London Underground stations that were attacked in the 7 July 2005 London bombings. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Volunteer_Ministers   (544 words)

LA: Ready to Make it through the Worst The activities of the Volunteer Ministers are coordinated from the main I HELP office in Los Angeles and continental or regional offices for the Western and Eastern U.S., Canada, Mexico and Central and South America, England, continental Europe, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Several physicians who are also Volunteer Ministers went to the parks and shelters to tend medically to more than 200 children who were at high risk or had already contracted illness by living outdoors in the chill of January for days on end. Volunteer Ministers also gave assists to truck drivers who had been slowed by exhaustion in their delivery of important medical supplies and food. www.freedominla.org /issue04/page06.htm   (1767 words)

Tampa Bay Area Residents Join 'Ground Zero' Relief Efforts - Church of Scientology presents Freedom Magazine - Fort ... While Volunteer Ministers helped in all aspects of relief work, their unique skill, distinguishing them from all other vital efforts, is bringing relief from trauma, pain and sorrow. Volunteer Ministers were also on the scene at the Pentagon outside of Washington, D.C. Among them were Church members who had been participating in services in Clearwater when the terrorists attacked, and immediately went back to Washington to help. Volunteer Ministers who have been involved in one or more of these relief efforts, however, concur that none of the disasters match the levels of destruction they have witnessed from the terrorist attack on America. www.freedominclearwater.org /iss14/page04a.htm   (1565 words)

Helping Where Help is Most Needed Volunteers established a relief station close to the heart of the grim operations, dubbed the “Freedom Cafe” by rescue workers; they conveyed needed items to crews on the huge mounds of rubble where the World Trade Center towers once stood and joined lines hauling buckets of debris from the remains of the buildings. Volunteer Ministers who have been involved in one or more of these relief efforts, however, concur that none of the disasters match the levels of destruction they witnessed from the September 11 terrorist attack on America. Scientology Volunteer Ministers act in a much broader capacity on a day to day basis, using a wide range of skills to help friends, associates and strangers to resolve disputes, repair broken relationships, increase literacy of children and adults, help work associates failing in their jobs and countless other circumstances. www.freedommag.org /english/canada/vol004i1/page02.htm   (1997 words)

"Something can be done about it!" Now exceeding a network of 15,000 volunteers throughout the world, the Volunteer Ministers are achieving that purpose through a broad variety of skills in which they are trained, and an underlying strong sense of human compassion. Typical is the man who had a heart condition who was in the hospital; Volunteer Ministers, called in by the family, visited him, helped him with his finances, handled his concerns about his rented room with his landlord, seeing to all his needs and wants. In response, the Church established a Volunteer Minister website, www.volunteerministers.org, and is sponsoring an international programme to train thousands more Volunteer Ministers and travelling exhibits to inform others of the programme, as was done recently in London. www.freedom.org.uk /mag/issuea18/page14.htm   (1550 words)

Scientology Volunteer Ministers The Volunteer Minister Program is a worldwide movement open to anyone who recognizes the world must change and wants to make a difference. For more than a quarter century, the Volunteer Ministers Program has crossed all national, racial, political and religious boundaries in more than 150 countries to help people deal successfully with the upheavals of existence and restore order, dignity and happiness to their lives. And the Volunteer Minister Program is the most effective way there is for you to foster one of the most basic and best of human virtues — the urge to assist one’s fellows. www.scientology.org /en_US/world/news/volunteer-ministers   (402 words)

Online Opinion01 Volunteer ministers from the Church of Scientology provided invaluable assistance to fire fighters and other civil defense workers helping to rescue victims and clear the area. Scientology ministers volunteer because they understand that something needs to be done about the world, and they wants to do what they can to change it by helping those around them. Volunteer minister services are commonly known as “assists.” An assist is neither healing, nor treatment. www3.hpu.edu /kalamalama/archive/2702/sub/Opinion01.htm   (480 words)

The Church of Scientology - Volunteer Minister Program - Freedom Magazine Published by Church of Scientology For this reason Volunteer Ministers have become known the world over for engaging in a wide range of activities to help others in the community, including helping those who most need help in times of disaster. Volunteer Ministers from Athens went to the site and after helping put order into the area, gave assists and organized activities for children in the relief camps. The Church of Scientology Volunteer Ministers Corps is composed of thousands of Scientology parishioners around the world who take time from their work and their own families to assist others. www.cyberspacefreedom.org /volun2.htm   (1161 words)

Scientology Volunteer Ministers: New York - September 11 Volunteer Ministers went to local hospitals to help the injured being brought there for treatment. By the day after the attack, in New York, the team of Volunteer Ministers was stationed at the emergency aid station at the Stuyvesant High School across from the city’s emergency headquarters, which was inside the perimeter closed off by the National Guard. A Volunteer Minister who had been working with a police officer coordinating materials and supplies for Police Department executives on the scene, was taken to meet the NYPD’s Chief of Police who told her that he wanted to personally thank her and the Church of Scientology for all their efforts. www.scientology.org /en_US/world/news/volunteer-ministers/pg001.html   (385 words)

India Disaster Relief and the Scientology Volunteer Ministers The total number of volunteers mobilized by the Scientology Volunteer minister corps is in excess of 200 people from many countries all across the globe. On meeting the Volunteer Ministers, and coming to know of their mission, Mr Rajendra Sabhu welcomed them saying "We as Rotary members, and as India wish to thank you for coming here from all over the world, from countries where most would consider this natural calamity as being sad, but not their own problem. The Scientology Volunteer Minister team in Chennai (Madras) had another meeting with the local Rotary Club to get more data on what is happening in the badly affected areas down the coast, and went down the coast. cookingstuff.blogspot.com   (1124 words)

The Volunteer Minister programme The answers to so many of the problems that surround us in society are as close to you as your local Scientology Volunteer Minister, who has been called upon time and again to bring effective help and practical solutions to their fellow man, whether it be for a national crisis or a personal one. For more than a quarter century, the Volunteer Minister programme has crossed national, racial, political and religious boundaries in more than 150 countries to help people deal successfully with the upheavals of existence and restore order, dignity and happiness to their lives. In establishing the Volunteer Minister programme in the mid-1970s in a response to rising crime and violence in society, L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion, provided society with tools for helping and practical solutions based on understanding and compassion — and he made them available for use by Scientologists and non-Scientologists alike. www.selfgrowth.com /articles/Hight1.html   (359 words)

Effective help -- when and where it's needed most The Volunteer Ministers’ ranks are continually growing, both here and abroad, enabling teams to respond even more quickly to disasters, large or small — from natural catastrophes to conflicts in the home or at work. Within hours of the attacks, Volunteer Ministers were on the scene, working around the clock to provide food, clothing, gear and other necessities to rescue crews. VOLUNTEER MINISTERS are equipped with 19 practical ways to help others in all aspects of life and living. www.freedommag.org /english/irish/issue01/page03.htm   (925 words)

Volunteer Ministers - Tsunami Aide - Helping Others in Indonesia Scientology Volunteer Ministers are famous for the work they do on the scenes of disaster such as their work at Ground Zero 9/11 and the tremendous contribution they made following the tsunamis that his Southeast Asia the day after Christmas 2004. Tom Cruise invited Volunteer Ministers onto the set of War of the Worlds, to be there for the crew and help them, whether to just help them relax or cope with the stress involved in shooting the film, or in any other way they needed help. The volunteer then led him outside by the hand and ordered him to touch the bus parked by the tent, the trees and the shoulder of a passersby to regain his sense of something solid. whyihelp.blogspot.com   (732 words)

In Times of Need - Freedom Magazine Published by Church of Scientology Volunteers from nations around the globe have responded to the SOSes; these and other disaster-stricken regions have received assistance from groups ranging from the Red Cross to the United Nations, each providing their own unique services. Among the volunteers have been teams of Scientology Volunteer Ministers, who can be found on the scene of disaster relief efforts throughout the world to assist shocked, bereaved and wounded victims and help in reconstruction efforts. Volunteer Ministers from Scientology churches on the eastern U.S. coast also went to Puerto Rico for the first critical days to provide the water, food and supplies to affected areas, and to deliver assists. int.freedommag.org /page33.htm   (1353 words)

My Volunteer Minister Blog: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 Friends of mine who were there with the Volunteer Ministers remember it as a turning point in their lives, where they re-dedicated themselves to helping others and to making a difference in society. After the call he invited them to a special Volunteer Minister meeting he was attending, and they did so, in full firemen gear—coats, boots and helmets smelling of smoke. Recently the New York Volunteer Ministers and all the other Scientologists who joined them after 9/11 were presented with NYFD's Medal of Valor, at the grand opening of the new Church of Scientology of New York. volunteerminister.blogspot.com /2004_10_12_volunteerminister_archive.html   (382 words)

Austin Area Interreligious Ministries – Clergy Corner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) Describing this program, he said: "A Volunteer Minister in Scientology is defined as a person who on a strictly voluntary basis helps out his fellow man by providing simple, basic counseling to people he meets to assist them in overcoming difficulties they may be having in life. Over the years, volunteer ministers have provided assistance to refugee camps in Kosovo, to earthquake victims in Kobe, Japan, and Los Angeles, and to survivors of the bombing in Oklahoma City. Volunteer ministers have been active in the Middle East and Northern Ireland, working to building bridges of communication and understanding between people from different cultures and religions. www.aaimaustin.org /clergy/ScientologyVolunteer.htm   (459 words)

Clearwater's Volunteer Ministers - Providing a Helping Hand - Freedom Magazine Forty-seven Scientology Volunteer Ministers — some of whom were among the Clearwater contingent who traveled to New York in September 2001 to help at the site of the World Trade Center —; are now also certified as Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) graduates, thus of even more benefit to their communities. The firefighters and volunteers greeted each another as comrades with handshakes and embraces, followed by a more somber reflection of their time together, working shoulder to shoulder amid the rubble and smoke of the World Trade Center collapse. While one of the Volunteer Ministers called for an ambulance and the police, the other two began to deliver an assist to the unconscious man. By the time the police and ambulance arrived several minutes later, the man had regained consciousness and was on his feet. www.freedominclearwater.org /iss16/page02.htm   (608 words)

Some Say 'It's every man for himself' - We Disagree - message from the Church of Scientology When an earthquake devastated Kobe in Japan, Volunteer Ministers were on hand helping the distraught and homeless victims of the disaster, while also training others to assist. And in Indonesia, a single Volunteer Minister arrived on the scene of an earthquake, quickly trained up volunteers to help the many homeless victims and left 300 people behind her with the tools to bring relief to tens of thousands. For Volunteer Ministers are people who help their fellow man on a volunteer basis by restoring purpose, truth and spiritual values to the lives of others. europe.scientology.org /publi/disagree/man/page01b.htm   (617 words)

Scientology Volunteer Ministers: We're here to help you Since then, the Volunteer Ministers have received authorization from the regional fire commander to deliver food to the fire crews in the field and assist with transport during shift changes. Volunteer Ministers are networked through the Internet, which makes it possible to respond rapidly to emergencies as well as to assist with regular ministerial needs in their own communities.” The Scientology Volunteer Minister program was developed in 1976 by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion, to enable individuals from all walks of life to provide practical assistance to help people deal with problems they encounter in their lives. www.volunteerministers.org /eng/news/page08.htm   (498 words)

Scientology Volunteer Ministers bring practical help to Hounslow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) The Volunteer Minister Exhibition, which is travelling around London throughout the year (with similar exhibitions in major cities around Europe), includes demonstrations of simple practical methods, developed by humanitarian L Ron Hubbard, to help deal with the daily problems in life. Scientology spokesperson, Stefania Cisco, said, “We have many Volunteer Ministers in London who have already been trained and are actively helping others to improve their quality of life. The Scientology Volunteer Minister Programme was developed in 1976 by L. Ron Hubbard to enable individuals from all walks of life to provide practical assistance to others. www.free-press-release.com /news/200405/1085404872.html   (499 words)

VM Disaster Relief Info Center :: View topic - OVERVIEW SOUTHEAST ASIA TO AID THE TSUNAMI SURVIVORS When the Volunteer Ministers arrived they found bodies stacked wall to wall with no organized system to take care of their retention, identification or disposal, with grieving relatives and friends randomly searching body bags and elsewhere for their loved ones. The Volunteer Ministers worked through the night to find or build the necessary cooling boxes for storing the bodies for identification, how to wire them, found the necessary cranes to get them stored and did whatever was needed to safely take care of the dead. And when the Prime Minister visited the facility and was told what the Volunteer Ministers had accomplished, he left his vehicle so that he could come out and personally thank the team leader for their help. vm.7.forumer.com /viewtopic.php?t=49   (2112 words)

Los Angeles Freedom Magazine: Human Rights Awards Teams of Volunteer Ministers were among the many community groups which mobilized during the Northridge earthquake. Nearly 200 volunteers fanned out to parks, relief centers and Red Cross shelters in those parts of the city hardest hit by the quake, providing blankets, water, food, clothing and other desperately needed items. During the ensuing weeks, volunteers provided thousands of blankets, 5,000 gallons of water, ten tons of clothing, thousands of diapers, medical supplies and more than 40 truckloads of food, contributing more than 10,000 volunteer hours to the relief effort. www.freedominla.org /issue04/page07.htm   (240 words)

Scientology Effective Solutions - Answering the call Today all Volunteer Ministers have a reputation for helping that precedes them wherever they go, and whenever something effective needs to be done, they can be counted on to do it, and quickly. Witness the respect for the Scientology Volunteer Ministers’ rapid response to urgencies in Italy, where in 2002 volunteers rushed to the earthquake-stricken Molise region. The diligence of Volunteer Ministers at the Moscow explosions was not forgotten. www.helpcommunity.org /pg003.html   (781 words)

Church of Scientology Tampa: Something Can Be Done About It   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) Every Volunteer Minister is armed with fundamental and practical Scientology techniques that anyone can use to help others resolve difficulties and improve their lives. A Volunteer Minister can handle troubled marriages, rescue drug addicts from their addiction and resolve many other difficulties. Volunteer Ministers also regularly visit local nursing homes to call on the elderly, providing conversation, entertainment and assistance. www.scientology-tampa.org /en_US/community/pg001.html   (179 words)

My Volunteer Minister Blog As a Volunteer Minister his primary task is not to provide first aid – he leaves that to those who know about this – but rather to help the Sri Lankans regain spiritual solace and to ensure they get the help they need. Niels Østergaard has been a member of the Scientology religion for almost six years and has trained to become a Volunteer Minister at the Church of Scientology of Jylland in Aarhus. The Volunteer Ministers have existed since the middle of the 190's and have been operating in more than 150 countries. volunteerminister.blogspot.com   (1071 words)

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