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Looking Back on the Past Ten Years of the Volunteer Ministers Movement
September 21, 2011
New York City, September 2001: Scientology Volunteer Ministers at Ground Zero.
New York City, September 2001: Scientology Volunteer Ministers provided help to rescue workers at Ground Zero
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New York City, September 2001: The Volunteer Ministers set up a tent and organized donations of food, drinks and supplies to provide for the needs of rescue and cleanup personnel at Ground Zero.
New York City, September 2001: A Volunteer Minister at Ground Zero
New York City, September 2002: Scientology Volunteer Ministers participate in Manhattan’s 9/11 memorial parade.
California 2003: Volunteer Ministers provided food, water and assists to firefighters who battled brush fires throughout Southern California.
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Florida, August 2004: Volunteer Ministers set up a relief center after Hurricane Charley struck the area.
Ten years of unconditional help by Scientology Volunteer Ministers around the world.
The work of the Scientology Volunteer Ministers who served at Ground
Zero in the months following 9/11 served as a model and inspiration for a movement that now spans the globe.
Although the Volunteer Ministers program was first established in 1976, when the twin towers collapsed 10 years ago it marked a turning point for the movement, signaling to Scientologists around the world a greatly heightened necessity to make a positive difference in society. There were 6,000 Volunteer Ministers in September 2001—today more than 200,000 wear the signature yellow T-shirt, reaching out in their communities and wherever disaster strikes—no matter how small—to help others improve their lives and those of their friends and family.
Over the past decade, time and again, Volunteer Ministers have acted with selfless courage in the manner described by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard:
“A Volunteer Minister does not shut his eyes to the pain, evil and injustice of existence. Rather, he is trained to handle these things and help others achieve relief from them and new personal strength as well.” —L. Ron Hubbard
Following is a list of some of the disasters in which Volunteer Ministers have served over the past 10 years.
2001
- Eight hundred Scientology Volunteer Ministers from the U.S. and abroad worked tirelessly for months in the toxic ruins of Ground Zero, New York, to support the massive rescue and cleanup effort. Along with international relief organizations such as the Red Cross and VOAD (Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster), they organized the donation and distribution of food and other needed supplies to first responders and rescue workers. In addition to caring for their physical needs, they provided Scientology assists to relieve spiritual and emotional trauma.
2002
- Volunteer Ministers helped in the cleanup after a volcanic eruption in January in the Congo left 120,000 homeless.
- In August, when the Danube overflowed its banks in the worst flooding in 200 years, Volunteer Ministers helped man sandbag lines to protect cities in Hungary and Czech Republic.
- On October 23, Chechen terrorists held 850 hostage at the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow. Volunteer Ministers assisted police and rescue workers to care for the survivors, and provided succor to the families of the victims.
2003
- When the "2003 Firestorm" burned over 280,000 acres of residential and wild lands in Southern California in October, Volunteer Ministers supported firefighters with water, food and Scientology assists.
2004
- When terrorists struck Madrid on March 11, Volunteer Ministers provided relief to victims and their families.
- Volunteer Ministers provided aid the victims of Hurricanes Charlie, Frances and Jeanne in Florida.
Indonesia, 2005: A Scientology Volunteer Minister in Indonesia carries a child out of the wreckage of the tsunami.
.India, 2005: Providing Volunteer Ministers training in India after the 2004 tsunami.
.Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 2005: Scientology Volunteer Ministers trained Muslim clerics and local officials in Banda Aceh who went on to help thousands of people in their communities.
New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005: More than 900 Scientology Volunteer Ministers from throughout the U.S. and abroad traveled to the Gulf Coast to help provide relief after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Louisiana, 2005: Scientologists remained in the Gulf Coast after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita where storm damage was so widespread, local residents needed help with cleanup and construction.
With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 we look back at the work of the Volunteer Minister over the past decade. The Scientology Volunteer Ministers who served at Ground Zero in the months following 9/11 inspired those who responded to these and other devastating disasters in 2005 and 2006.
2005
- In 2005, as the New Year began, teams of Scientology Volunteer Ministers from 26 nations were already in place or en route to Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and India to provide relief. An earthquake on December 26, 2004 had unleashed the deadliest tsunami in recorded history. For months, Volunteer Ministers provided any service needed, from search and rescue and identifying the dead to providing food and other supplies to those left homeless. By training thousands in Scientology disaster response technology, from police and military officers to Buddhist monks and Muslim clerics, they extended help to hundreds of thousands and established Volunteer Ministers groups throughout the region to continue to provide help.
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