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Scientology Volunteer Ministers Assist Emergency Services in London
Added: (Thu Jul 21 2005)
Teams of Volunteer Ministers from the Churches of Scientology assisted police and emergency services personnel in the aftermath of the terrorist attack in London on Thursday.
The Volunteer Ministers (VMs) began arriving hours after the bombings, and by mid-afternoon 250 VMs were on the scene. Police officers initially asked them to help direct people so that the police could give their full attention to the rescue operations around Russell Square and Edgeware Road, Moregate, and Liverpool Street underground stations. The Volunteer Ministers also provided refreshments to the emergency workers, arranging with local stores to donate the supplies.
The Volunteer Ministers have been providing their unique form of help known as *assists to the injured or traumatized. After the bombings, many people, even if not among the injured themselves, were disoriented and confused. The volunteer Ministers helped by giving them a “locational,” a type of spiritual assist that orients a person to his present-time environment.
One office worker who received an assist was so impressed with the results that he quickly learned how to do it and then returned to his office and gave one to everyone in his office.
The Scientology Volunteer Minister force, founded in 1976, was hundreds strong at Ground Zero following the 9/11 tragedy. Since then, it has continued to help wherever needed on an international scale – from leading salvage and rescue efforts in response to Florida hurricanes, to being appointed an official “civil defense force” by the Italian federal government, and more recently VMs were called upon to help manage crowd-control teams in Rome during the Papal funeral.
After the Southeast Asian Tsunamis hit, 500 Volunteer Ministers from 11 nations were mobilized and close to a third of a million people in the regions affected were directly assisted as a result. National leaders in Indonesia, India and Thailand commended the VMs for their relief work.
In all, Volunteer Ministers have been able to help more than 4.7 million people since 9/11, with more than 50,000 active members of the Volunteer Minister Corps internationally, on call.
*Assists operate on the principle that one tends to withdraw mentally or spiritually from an injured area. Only by restoring communication with this area can one bring the spiritual element into healing, thereby greatly speeding the healing process. Assists are used to alleviate stress and physical aches and pains, or to orient a confused or distraught individual to his present environment.
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Submitted by:
Georgina Tweedie