Volunteer Minister, your stories

[Lohan2008]

Wondered if any members would be willing to share their experience as a "Volunteer" Minister ?

Did you have to bring your own supplies?
Did you have recruitment targets to meet??

[Dulloldfart]

In LA just after the 1994 Northridge earthquake most of the staff (Sea Org) in the HGB (like 500 people) did the VM thing for most of a day. We didn't wear yellow shirts. Some people gave assists. Some just did whatever was needed, like help residents talk to their landlords about structural worries, or whatever. One guy afterwards gave a win after running Reach & Withdraw on a kid who was too scared to go back into his home again, and after a bit of approaching and backing off from the front door he was soon running all the way into and out of the house, whooping with joy about it.

I mostly slunk around and handed out some supplied TWTH booklets, being too scared to actually approach people and talk meaningfully to them.

I don't think we had any individual quotas of any kind to meet.

Paul

[Lohan2008]

No one else ?

[thefiredragon]

It depends. If a Volunteer Minister works for the Church, his goal is to recruit people as FSM. But if he just does what he does because he believes he can help, there is no reicrutment goals. I've done both.