Mobilization
Teams of Volunteer Ministers were among the many community groups which mobilized during the Northridge earthquake. Nearly 200 volunteers fanned out to parks, relief centers and Red Cross shelters in those parts of the city hardest hit by the quake, providing blankets, water, food, clothing and other desperately needed items.
During the ensuing weeks, volunteers provided thousands of blankets, 5,000 gallons of water, ten tons of clothing, thousands of diapers, medical supplies and more than 40 truckloads of food, contributing more than 10,000 volunteer hours to the relief effort.
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“After Northridge, there was a gap in servicing a lot of the community organizations. The Emergency Network Los Angeles filled that gap."—Ellis Stanley,
Assistant City Administrative Officer
LA Emergency Preparedness Division
................................. Volunteer Ministers worked with other community groups involved in handling the emergency, including the Red Cross and the Federal Management Agency (FEMA), where they helped to process over 2,000 applicants for federal assistance. Working with the Los Angeles Mayor’s office, others joined the city’s Reassurance Teams, touring parks and public shelters to help get people back to their homes or into other appropriate shelters.
Throughout, Volunteer Ministers delivered thousands of Scientology assists to adults and children left injured or traumatized in the wake of the temblor. Several physicians who are also Volunteer Ministers went to the parks and shelters to tend medically to more than 200 children who were at high risk or had already contracted illness by living outdoors in the chill of January for days on end.
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