Mr. David Miscavige Chairman of the Board,
Religious Technology Center
Opening Address
In honor of L. Ron Hubbard’s Birthday 2002
And for proof of that, you need go no further than Clearwater’s Student VM’s.
After tracking stories of what they had done, a Florida TV producer ran a feature news spot on local television. But he took it one step further, and tipped off other media to the story. The result was a three minute news segment, broadcast repeatedly just last month, on CNN Student News and in class rooms nationwide.
Meanwhile, and since the disaster of 9/11, VM’s have been working at virtually every planetary hot spot. Last December, they trained a Fire Sergeant responsible for instructing more than 10,000 firefighters, in Brazil’s largest city. That was followed by a training session for hundreds of those Sao Paulo firefighters — held in the local sports arena. Meanwhile, that sergeant is now doing the Volunteer Minister Course himself.
Then in January, when Mount Nyiragongo erupted in the Congo, more than 150 VM’s from that nation, and neighboring Rwanda, mobilized to provide help to the half-million displaced residents.
They delivered group processing on local radio and television, and hatted an official from the Ministry of Defense — using the Scientology Handbook. Soon, he was wearing the yellow shirt of a Volunteer Minister and working alongside the other VM’s. As he put it, “While so many others ‘promised’ to help, the Scientology Volunteer Ministers actually delivered.”
Then there’s Australia, where brush fires raged throughout December and January. As firefighters worked around the clock to contain the blaze, our VM’s were right there, again the focus of national news.
But word of the results of
L. Ron Hubbard technology at Ground Zero preceded our Volunteer Ministers in Australia. As a matter of fact, when a firefighter saw one of the first VM’s on the scene, he asked: “You’re from Scientology, aren’t you?”When he was told the statement was correct, he responded, “I’m ready for my first assist!”
That was the story, over and over, as our VM’s worked alongside thousands of firefighters and delivered hundreds of assists. And when the work was done, they were cheered as heroes as they marched in two parades — including the “ticker-tape” parade down Sydney’s main street!
But, for a final example of how a Volunteer Minister can have far-reaching effects, there is this, from Macedonia. It was from this land of civil unrest and ethnic conflict, that a government official called a VM for help.
He wanted assistance to handle a situation in his life — an “ethics situation.” Soon, with the help of the VM and the booklet on ethics, he was applying condition formulas for the first time. The result, as he described it:
“I have in my hands a golden tool from L. Ron Hubbard that will forever help me to survive.”
