SCIENTOLOGY VOLUNTEER MINISTERS
DISASTER RELIEF
HURRICANE KATRINA
Disaster Relief in Mississippi
September 12th, 2005
A Volunteer Minister truck arriving at the distribution point in McLain, Mississippi.
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Scientology Volunteer Ministers unloading supplies from the truck upon arrival in Gulfport, Mississippi.
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While supplies are unloaded, Tom Steiner, head of the relief operations for the Scientology Volunteer Ministers, speaks with a youth in McLain.
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People arrive to collect supplies brought by the Volunteer Ministers.
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Although two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, towns throughout the region are still in urgent need of help.
Hearing that Biloxi and Gulfport had not yet received relief, a team of fifty Volunteer Ministers headed to Mississippi where they distributed food and supplies to survivors.
As one Volunteer Minister described the scene, “As we drove into Biloxi, it was just horrific, the coastal area is completely devastated. I saw one church standing but all the other buildings were flattened. I’m so glad we’re here. These people in the shelters really need assistance.”
In Gulfport the Volunteer Ministers found people with serious medical situations and a shortage of medical personnel to help them. Working with the National Guard, the Volunteer Ministers evacuated the most serious cases. They then went door to door through the town, finding out what people needed, and providing it.
Fourteen days after 155 MPH winds hit McLain, Mississippi, the town still had no power and only a few homes had water. As a result, a Volunteer Minister team from Baton Rouge, Louisiana headed by Tom Steiner drove there with a truck filled with supplies, which they distributed to people in McLain.
One thing the Volunteer Ministers are finding is that most people need help with the trauma from the hurricane and what they have experienced since. To help the people of the area with this, Volunteer Ministers have been giving assist to the survivors to help get them in shape to put their lives back together. Anyone can learn these simple procedures to help themselves, their friends or their loved ones. Click here to learn how. (www.scientologyhandbook.org)
If you can help with donations or wish to volunteer time, call the VM Hotline 1-800-435-7498 (US & Canada) or from outside North America call 1-323-960-1949 or e-mail vm@volunteerministers.org
For more information: Scientology Volunteer Ministers News
1. 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 or to orient a confused or distraught individual to his present environment. Assists are not "massages." They are techniques developed by L. Ron Hubbard to alleviate the spiritual component of physical pain, shock and emotional trauma. are techniques developed by L. Ron Hubbard. They 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.
Learn on-line how to do Scientology Assists.
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