Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Meet a Scientologist - Barbara Schneider's Happy Ending


Scientologist Barbara Schneider is a model, TV personality, paramedic, Scientology counselor and mother of four who didn’t anticipate how well things would turn out 18 years ago when things went wrong.  

Born and working as a paramedic in Lugano, Switzerland, in the early 1990s a failed relationship left her desperate to get away.


“I went to a travel agent and told him I needed a change,” she says. “I wanted to be someplace far away and on the sea.”
The next thing she knew, she was flying to Majorca with her 3-year-old son. Once there, she was paying a friend a visit at a hotel when a man directed her ‘right this way for the audition.’  She tried to tell him that was not why she was there, but he insisted, and she ended up being cast as co-host of a TV show.
Despite the change in scenery and an exciting new job, a year and a half later, Schneider was still suffering.
“My twin sister Elena could tell I was unhappy,” says Schneider. “She had been a Scientologist since we were 16 and she was convinced Scientology would help me.”
Agreeing to give it a try, she received some Scientology spiritual counseling and was amazed—the upset vanished.
Schneider relocated to Clearwater, Florida—the spiritual headquarters of the Scientology religion.  It was there that she met and married husband Roberto. 
A Scientology auditor (religious counselor), she credits the skills she has gained from her training for her success as a mother and in so many other aspects of her life.
“I don’t know how I would raise a family in the world today without what I’ve learned in Scientology,” she says.
She is tremendously proud of how self-reliant and responsible her children are.
“My kids have a very good life but they work hard for it,” she says.  “It’s not automatically—‘Oh, you’re 16 so here’s a car.’ They earn what they get by studying hard and doing well in school. Even with my little one who’s only four, she loves contributing to the family.  She helps me around the house.  We make it a game and she’s proud of what she does.”
Schneider’s commitment to helping others extends beyond the family.  A Scientology Volunteer Minister, she traveled to Port-au-Prince in January 2012 with her three sisters and several close friends to help in the wake of the Haiti earthquake. 
 “We are all mothers and the children there really touched our hearts,” she says. “We took on helping more than 100 children who were living on the streets, orphaned or separated from their parents. We built tents, turned an old school bus into a cafeteria, cooked and served their meals, arranged medical care, and tutored them.  Where possible, we helped them find their families.  My sisters stayed on for months and made sure the children would be cared for when they left.”
Involved with helping others since she was a child, Schneider finds being a Scientology auditor (counselor) enormously gratifying.
“What I like most is to touch someone’s life with a bit of magic—that’s what I really love to do,” she says, “to inspire them, bring out the best in them, so they can see solutions on their own and go ahead and resolve their problems and be happy.”
To meet more than 200 Scientologists and hear their stories, watch the “Meet a Scientologist” videos at www.Scientology.org
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The popular “Meet a Scientologist” profiles on the Church of Scientology International Video Channel at Scientology.org now total more than 200 broadcast-quality documentary videos featuring Scientologists from diverse locations and walks of life. The personal stories are told by Scientologists who are educators, teenagers, skydivers, a golf instructor, a hip-hop dancer, IT manager, stunt pilot, mothers, fathers, dentists, photographers, actors, musicians, fashion designers, engineers, students, business owners and more.
A digital pioneer and leader in the online religious community, in April 2008 the Church of Scientology became the first major religion to launch its own official YouTube Video Channel, with videos now viewed more than 7 million times.


A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.~~~L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion

Sunday, September 02, 2012

Bridge Publications Wins Top Honors in 2012 Premier Print Awards


Publisher of the works of L. Ron Hubbard acknowledged as industry leader

Bridge Publications Inc., publisher of the works of Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard, has been awarded the “Benny Award” and seven certificates of merit in the 2012 Premier Print Awards. The publishing house won for the Basics Books and Lectures of L. Ron Hubbard in Chinese—the core Scientology Scripture comprising 18 books and 284 recorded lectures, and The L. Ron Hubbard Seriesthe 16-volume complete biographical encyclopedia of the life of L. Ron Hubbard. Both publications series were released in March 2012 in honor of the 101st anniversary of Mr. Hubbard's birth.

The Premier Print Benny Awards, hosted by Printing Industries of America, are the printing industry's oldest and largest worldwide graphic arts competition. Now in its 63rd year, the annual contest recognizes those responsible for the creation and production of superior print communications. First-place winners in each category of the competition receive the Benny Award, named after Benjamin Franklin.

The international contest promotes excellence in print communications and recognizes the highest-quality printed pieces in various categories. This year, more than 2,800 entries were received from printing and graphic arts firms from around the world.

The Basics Lectures of L. Ron Hubbard in Traditional Chinese received certificates of merit for “Foil Stamping and Embossing/Debossing;” “Special Innovation Awards—Printing;” and “Hard Cover Trade Books, Journals and Other Books;” and top honors for their innovative labels in the category “Labels and Wraps—Rolled products/pressure-sensitive.”

The L. Ron Hubbard Series received four certificates of merit: the entire series for “Digital Printing On Demand;” and “Hard Cover Trade Books, Journals and Other Books;” and the individual volumes L. Ron Hubbard: A Profile for “Foil Stamping and Embossing/Debossing;” and L. Ron HubbardPhotographer: Writing with Light for “Art Books.”

Bridge Publications Inc. took home first place in another prestigious industry competition earlier this year, the Manufacturing Leadership 100 Awards, in the category of “New Workforce.” At the May 3 award ceremony, the accomplishment was described in these terms: “When Bridge Publications decided to move production of its book and CD products in-house, the size of its manufacturing staff suddenly expanded by ten times…. Bridge responded by developing an in-house training program which involves an apprenticeship, testing of staff knowledge, and on-the-job training. Bridge’s staff is now among the most proficient in the world, setting records for production volume.”

Bridge manufactures all Dianetics and Scientology audio lectures internationally and all books and course materials for the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania. In conjunction with New Era Publications, which provides the books and course materials for Europe and the United Kingdom, they have the capacity to print 600,000 books and 1 million compact discs a week, or 31 million books and 52 million CDs annually.

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Housed in a 276,000-square-foot facility in Los Angeles County, California, Bridge Publications and its sister organization New Era Publications in Copenhagen, Denmark, are two of the world's largest all-digital, print-on-demand facilities and are visited frequently by industry leaders as models of innovation and efficiency.


A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.~~~L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion