Help from Down Under, The Scientology Volunteer Ministers of Sydney

The Church of Scientology of Sydney helped over 13,000 this past year through their weekly outreach actions in their community.

In recent weeks the Church of Scientology Sydney has set up their tent in the town of Luddenham for the Vicars Vineyard Market Fair, at Burwood Park on the west side of the city and Narrabeen in the northeast.

In Ettalong, one Scientology Volunteer Minister who had just finished studying a course on the basics of administration, helped a stallholder in the market with the technology he had just studied. And it certainly worked. By the end of the day the man was delighted — he had tripled his normal sales.

Earlier this year the Scientology Volunteer Ministers helped restore peace when a gang war erupted in Cronulla, a suburb in southern Sydney. The conflict was between Australian and Lebanese youths. Although the police cut off access to the area, shutting down all incoming trains and busses, the Scientology Volunteer Ministers were welcomed. They helped calm the area by distributing over 10,000 copies of The Way to Happiness, a common-sense non-religious moral code.

In an article titled Religious Influence in Society L. Ron Hubbard wrote, "If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he can do something about it. He can become a Volunteer Minister and help civilize it, bring it conscience and kindness and love and freedom from travail by instilling into it trust, decency, honesty and tolerance."