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Sobering Photos of Bushfires in Australia

turbotad — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:30:26 -0000

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I don’t think I need to describe the disaster in more detail.

Now, I’m back here in the U.S. I’m not in a position where I can go to

Melbourne and help out with this. But I can tell people about it, and

so can you, because some very tired people in Victoria (namely

firefighters and the handful of Red Cross and Scientology Volunteer

Ministers that are on the ground assisting them) that are duking it out

with this thing.

Can you do something to help?

Funds are needed to support the volunteers. If you can help, go to the Volunteer Ministers website and fill out the contact form they have there. They’ll accept any help from anyone anywhere.

Scientology Volunteer Ministers Blog
Scientology
International Association of Scientologists
Volunteer Ministers - Mr. David Miscavige describes the Volunteer Minister Program

Map of Australian Bushfires

turbotad — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:57:32 -0000

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Scientology Volunteers Needed to Combat Australian and Tasmanian Bushfires

Yahoo! News shows this map of the Australian Bushfires:

Dozens of houses were destroyed by rampaging wildfires in Australia, fire authorities said, as the nation grappled with the growing emergency.

The fire line of the bushfires is now apparently over 270 km long.

From what I heard, it's already burned an area of Victoria, Australia, which is roughly the size of the country of Luxembourg. The Scientology Volunteer Ministers are on the ground there now, though I've not heard anything else than what's on the Scientology Volunteer Ministers site right now.

If you have any way of helping, contact the Scientology Volunteer Ministers Coordinator.

Scientology Volunteer Minister Disaster Relief Site
David Miscavige on Scientology Volunteer Ministers
Scientology - Main Australia Site
Scientology Handbook - Scientology Volunteer Ministers Technology

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turbotad — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:52:22 -0000

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Six hundred firefighters at the staging point where the VMs are located are working 12-hour shifts. Many of them are crediting Scientology assists*, delivered by the VMs, with keeping them on the job despite the grueling conditions, with smoke from the fires so thick its effect is being felt as far away as New Zealand.

More help is needed, and all Australian Volunteer Ministers are urged to join the team. For information on how to do so, contact the Volunteer Ministers Coordinator at the Church of Scientology of Melbourne or the International Volunteer Ministers Coordinator.

[TagWorld :: jetteroheller - Scientology Volunteers Need Help in Australia]

turbotad — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:22:15 -0000

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Serious assistance is still needed by the firefighters who are combatting runaway bushfires in Victoria in Australia. With over 3000 firefighters on the ground and almost no support personnel backing them up, they need help bad.

Scientology Volunteer Ministers are there in force, but need much more assistance to keep the firefighters fighting the fires, and emergency response personnel organized and coordinated.

If you can help, contact the Scientology Volunteer Ministers now.

Scientology Volunteer Ministers main site
David Miscavige on Scientology Volunteer Ministers
Scientology - Main Australia Site
Scientology Handbook - Scientology Volunteer Ministers Technology

Scientology Volunteer Ministers

turbotad — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:26:19 -0000

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December 10

Scientology Volunteer Ministers - What Makes them Effective

There are two major disasters going on right now in the ANZO area (Australia, New Zealand and Oceania) -- with the fires going on in Victoria, and the Typhoon which just hit in the Philippines. Now, Volunteer Minister teams are being dispatched to both locations -- but what are the technologies they use which makes them so effective? Governments praise them, the people on the ground wonder at why they can just get in and get things done -- but they're just people.

What's the difference between what they've got and what other groups might lack? The difference is that Scientology Volunteer Ministers are studied and drilled heaviliy in L. Ron Hubbard's organization technology -- for handling situations which seemingly are a confusing mass.

They're also drilled on L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology Assist Technology, which is a technology anyone can learn to help others. That in itself -- that anyone can learn it -- is something that Scientology Volunteer Ministers use to the hilt -- because when only a few hundred Scientology Volunteers hit a three-state disaster zone line Hurricane Katrina was, it's imperative that as many people as possible become empowered to themselves provide effective help to each other.

So, as an engineer concerned with Technology, that's where I salute the PEOPLE technologies like was created by L. Ron Hubbard and is put to use by Scientology Volunteer Ministers all over. I learned it -- and I think anyone else who could possibly run into similar such situations (which, if you live on earth, is you) -- should learn it.

Resources:

Scientology Volunteer Ministers main site
David Miscavige on Scientology Volunteer Ministers
Scientology - Main Australia Site
Scientology Handbook - Scientology Volunteer Ministers Technology

Scientology Volunteer Ministers

turbotad — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:37:06 -0000

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Volunteers are on the ground conducting damage assessments and assisting in rescue operations. Stockpiles from the national warehouse as well as donations received will be sent to the NCCP Andurog Mayon Operations Center in Legaspi City for immediate distribution to the evacuation centers.

Contact the Scientology Volunteer Ministers international hotline to find out how you can help.

Scientology Volunteer Ministers Website
The Scientology Handbook - the main training manual for Volunteer Ministers.
Scientology Volunteer Ministers Disaster Response
Photos from the Affected Region
David Miscavige on Scientology Volunteer Ministers

Scientology Today: Scientology Disaster Relief Training

turbotad — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:36:06 -0000

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As a public service, and in response to the many requests from emergency response personnel and agencies, Scientology Disaster Relief training is being made available to any group or individual wanting to learn the organizational skills and techniques for handling trauma and confusion for which the Scientology Volunteer Ministers are famous.

A Volunteer Minister demonstrates Scientology "Assists" to two of the firefighters. Assists are techniques developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. They are invaluable to emergency response personnel as they are used to alleviate stress and trauma, or to orient a confused or distraught individual to his present environment.

The Volunteer Minister Disaster Response Specialist Course is a short, simple course delivered in our traveling Volunteer Minister Cavalcade tents or on site to organizations around the world.

Based on The Scientology Handbook the training is available at hundreds of organizations around the world, in over 20 different languages.

Scientology Volunteer Ministers - Live Blog

turbotad — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:44:46 -0000

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Learning about study technology developed by L. Ron Hubbard Mohammad Khalil Ullah has established free study centers to give children in the slums of Kolkata, India a chance to succeed in life.

In India, 135 million children do not attend school. That means that with no prospect for gaining the skills school can provide for them, the equivalent of nearly half the population of the entire United States has little prospect of ever moving themselves out of the poverty that dominates their lives.

When the Scientology Volunteer Ministers Goodwill Tour arrived in Kolkata, earlier this year, one of the first people they met was Mohammad Khalil Ullah, a humanitarian who has been working to improve the lives of his people.

Related Resources:

The Scientology Volunteer Ministers Website
Mr. David Miscavige on Scientology Volunteer Ministers
Resources on Scientology
Resources on David Miscavige

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Larger Quarters for Scientology in Seattle

turbotad — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:26:46 -0000

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Due to the recent popularity of Scientology in the Pacific Northwest, the Church of Scientology of Washington State, in Seattle, Washington, has purchased larger quarters overlooking Puget Sound.

The organization is dramatically larger than their current premises, so as to properly be able to service the Scientologists in the Seattle area. The Church of Scientology of Seattle is also responsible for many Scientology missions around the Pacific Northwest, from Bellingham, WA, all the way out to Kalispell in Montana.

Scientologists, spurred on by the recent opening of the new Church of Scientology of London by Mr. David Miscavige, are gearing up on renovations to get this Church completed by the beginning of 2007.

Scientology Volunteer Ministers - New Website

turbotad — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:23:10 -0000

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The Scientology Volunteer Ministers just put up a new website at www.volunteerministers.org.

The site makes it much eaiser to find out about the Volunteer Ministers, but really, I think, shows how big and productive this group has become. They are now the largest independent relief force in the world!

I definitely get from this the communication that Mr. David Miscavige said in his speech on Volunteer Ministers, "So when it comes to helping those in most desperate need, we not only know we can help, we are doing something about it."

Scientology Volunteer Ministers Calming Down the Dangerous Environment

turbotad — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:19:52 -0000

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This is something also articulated by Mr. David Miscavige, when he spoke of the heroics of the Scientology Volunteer Ministers at Ground Zero in the wake of 9/11. The real value they were providing there, quite in addition to the physical lives saved and people helped, was a restoring of calm to the area so that people could get on with what they needed to do.

That's not just mysticism or just "a bunch of nice people". Scientology Volunteers are trained in how to get the job done in such circumstances, which anyone can also learn how to do regardless of your religion.

They're still trying to pump up the jam on this North Korean business...

turbotad — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:03:27 -0000

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They're Still Trying to Pump up the Jam on this North Korean Business

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I know that the media is probably going to go crazy on this subject for quite some time, ensuring that everyone is a beaten down and suppressed as is humanly possible.

As per my last post, I think that any one who's browsing the media on North Korea needs to totally take a step back, real the Solutions for a Dangerous Environment booklet, and then take a good look at things they can do in their own backyards to help calm things down and bring some order to the environment.

As Mr. David Miscavige pointed out when delivering his grand opening speech at the Church of Scientology of New York, it wasn't just the fact that Scientology Volunteer Ministers and Red Cross workers were day and night at Ground Zero, digging people out of the rubble -- it was the other peripheral actions done that really made a difference in terms of calming things down and getting people connected to that whole disaster to be able to continue with their lives.

Scientology Missions Around the World - Xeeks

turbotad — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:27:56 -0000

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Young students learn to help one another using Scientology Assists.

Natural disaster may be a way of life in Indonesia, where devastation from torrential rains and earthquakes are commonplace, but the Scientology Disaster Relief Team has brought real help to the people of this island nation - something I think is a totally honourable endeavour.

While the whole world watched in shock in December 2004 as the estimates of the dead in this Island country approached 10% of the pre-tsunami population, a team of Scientology Volunteer Ministers raced to the disaster zone in Sumatra to help the survivors put their lives back together again.

Training tens of thousands on the simple techniques contained in the Scientology Handbook, by L. Ron Hubbard , the volunteers, who came from Australia, Europe, Africa and the Americas, brought help to hundreds of thousands in Medan and Banda Aceh. Many stayed on for months after the disaster was over and when they returned to their homes they left behind a team of dedicated Indonesian volunteers to carry on the work they had begun.

In 2004, Mr. David Miscavige briefed some of the world's most influential people at the Celebrity Centre Gala, on the effects the Scientology Volunteer Ministers have been having, and the real help they can provide. This is just another example of their effective help being used to train others so they can help each other, and thus bring sanity and more productivity and calm to a nation.

What is a Volunteer Minister?

turbotad — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 05:52:04 -0000

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What is a Volunteer Minister? Who are they?

I found this excellent little article today on ScientologyToday which defines a Scientology Volunteer Minister :

In 1976, L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion, wrote an essay titled, “Religious Influence in Society,” in which he launched the Scientology Volunteer Ministers program and described the role of the Scientology Volunteer Ministers in these terms:

“...a Volunteer Minister is a person who helps his fellow man on a volunteer basis by restoring purpose, truth and spiritual values to the lives of others.

“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.

“How does a Volunteer Minister accomplish these miracles? Basically, he uses the technology of Scientology to change conditions for the better—for himself, his family, his groups, friends, associates and for mankind.”

Also, quoted from VolunteerMinisters.org, from a talk by Mr. David Miscavige:

"They have become internationally known and recognized for what has been described as spiritual first aid, and to that end they are ready and organized to respond to any disaster — 'man-made' or by force of nature.

"Most notable, of course, were our Volunteer Ministers at Ground Zero, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

Get Help - Even if your Town is Burning Down

turbotad — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 06:15:18 -0000

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Scientology Volunteers and Botswana Firefighters Repel Fire in Gabarone Â» Netscape.com

Scientology Volunteer Ministers happened to be in an abandoned section of Gabarone, Botswana when a pretty massive fire broke out . As they were the only ones in a position to help, they pitched in and worked side-by-side with the Gabarone Fire Dept, braving the flames and putting out a massive fire.

Tours like this one were first announced in 2004, shortly after Mr. David Miscavige's landmark speech This is Scientology detailing what Scientology is and does. These tours are now in Fiji, Taiwan, Africa, Brazil, Europe and Russia, and are bringing Scientology and effective solutions to those in each of these areas.