CLASS V ORGANIZATIONS
Scientology Class V Churches minister the following religious services:
All Introductory Services Ministered by Missions
Dianetics and Scientology Auditing
The Minister’s Course and Ordaining Ministers
Clear
A local Scientology church is both a spiritual and a social hub for its parishioners—a bustling center of activity and a focal point for the religion. The next level in the hierarchy above missions and groups, these churches express their own special ambiance. It is partly the friendliness, partly the sense of dedication that permeates the place, and partly the dynamic mix of people, individuals of different ages, backgrounds and lifestyles all working so well together under one roof. All of these combine to result in what L. Ron Hubbard characterized simply as “the spirit of Scientology.”
And that spirit
is unique.
Like Scientology field groups and missions, a local church provides introductory lectures, workshops, seminars and other religious services to people new to Scientology. This is where those who are curious about Scientology can call or visit and immediately find out about—and participate in, if they wish—introductory services. And it is where they can also discover exactly how to chart their path to Clear and beyond.
What is most distinctive about these Scientology churches is that each is a
technical hub as well. Here a young woman who wants to learn the exact technology that will help her resolve a difficult relationship sits next to a grandmother who is studying so she can help her grandchildren do better in life. And at the next table there may be a teenager who wants to learn auditing so he can help others. These parishioners are all intent on learning to apply
L. Ron Hubbard’s technology and achieving the spiritual results that technology delivers. Skillful Case Supervisors help them progress through the auditing levels of the Scientology Grades and New Era Dianetics and guide them as they receive training through Class V Graduate Auditor level. For this reason, these churches are known to Scientologists as Class V organizations.
“My church is like no other place I have ever been,” said a parishioner of a Scientology church in a large city. “I am
cared for there, in the most valuable way possible—I learn about myself as a spiritual being, and then how to use that when I go out the doors of the church into my daily life. My auditing and training address the most important aspects of
my life, and I love going into my church.”
At a Class V church one finds parishioners of all walks of life actively moving up the Bridge. Here a Scientologist takes his first steps toward the states of Clear and Operating Thetan (OT). He usually takes courses, whether attending on a schedule at night and on weekends while he works, or arranges his life so he can study full time during the day.
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