Church of Scientology Nashville Helps Communities Stay Well as the City Reopens

The Churches of Scientology Disaster Response are known for helping communities during times of emergency.

The Church of Scientology’s Volunteer Ministers have taken part in an initiative designed to back up the city’s reopening. They distributed over 15,000 “Stay Well” booklets to local stores, restaurants, grocery stores, clinics, hospitals and homes.

Based on the principle that an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure, they dressed in their signature yellow jackets and caps and additional protective gear and loaded up with sets of three booklets: How to Keep Yourself & Others Well, How to Protect Yourself & Others with a Mask & Gloves and How to Prevent the Spread of Illness with Isolation.

Scientology Volunteer Ministers are making these booklets available across Nashville, and in communities around the world in 21 languages. The booklets are packaged in custom-designed boxes that fold into counter displays and invite people to “please take one.”

Nashville and Tennessee were not the worst hit by the pandemic, but still have more than 35,000 cases in Tennessee, and 8,600 in the Nashville area and counting. “We’re stepping up to take this pandemic down,” said one of the Volunteer Ministers. “People have been so grateful for the booklets.”

Each booklet has a QR code on the back that goes to the How to Stay Well Prevention Center on the Scientology website, which makes these 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 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.