With more than 853,000 cases of COVID-19 in Tennessee,
and 12,400 deaths, many church leaders were reluctant to resume in-person
worship services, even with restrictions lifting across the state. The Church of
Scientology Nashville is inspiring other faith leaders with safe return methods
involving deep sanitization of church spaces so any trace of the COVID-19 virus
is vanquished.  The Church of Scientology’s Volunteer Ministers have
taken part in an initiative designed to keep communities safe while cities and
states reopen. They distributed over 15,000 “Stay Well” booklets to local
stores, restaurants, grocery stores, clinics, hospitals and homes in the
Nashville area. And now, Volunteer Ministers are helping to sanitize places of
worship as they prepare for in-person services again.  One Volunteer Minister explained that they are armed with
DECON 7, the most effective decontamination substance. “We decontaminate these
buildings at our own expense,” she says. They follow it up with hygiene
education to ensure the spaces they sanitize are kept clean and germ-free. The education is available online at the How to Stay Well
Prevention Center on the Scientology website, which makes booklets and other
prevention materials available, free of charge. The booklets can be read on the
website or downloaded. More than a dozen brief videos illustrate the key
information, making it easy to understand what a virus is, how it spreads, and
the actions anyone can take to protect themselves and their families.   Worldwide distribution of these booklets began in May 2020
in communities around Scientology Churches and Missions across the globe. The
Church of Scientology International Dissemination and Distribution Center made
this possible by printing and shipping 5 million copies of Stay Well booklets. The Church of Scientology Volunteer Ministers program is
a religious social service created in the mid-1970s by Scientology Founder L.
Ron Hubbard. It constitutes one of the largest and most visible international
independent relief forces. The Volunteer Minister’s mandate is to be “a person
who helps his fellow man on a volunteer basis by restoring purpose, truth and
spiritual values to the lives of others.” For more information or to learn more, visit Scientology.org/StayWell.