South African Religious Leaders Find the Tools Needed in The Scientology Handbook
Ministers, pastors and their congregations are using Scientology tools to solve life’s problems and uplift their communities.
Rev. Shadrack Lekoana of the Uniting Reformed Church in South Africa was born a Christian. He studied theology, looking for answers to help people in need. He saw early on how people would backslide, making the same mistakes repeatedly, and he wanted to know why.
Thirty-two percent of South Africans were without steady employment. People were turning to drugs. And churches were losing attendance. Church ministers needed effective tools to address the problems that congregations were bringing to them.
Rev. Lekoana met a Scientologist who invited him to the Church of Scientology at Castle Kyalami in South Africa. He was introduced to the tools in The Scientology Handbook. He used these in his counseling and achieved the success he had been lacking.
“If the book can change me, and if the book can change the next person, this, I am sure, can change the family,” he says. “If it can change the family, it’s going to change the community. And if it can change the community, automatically, the whole country can be changed. So we need to take it where it belongs.”
He brought the book to church leaders and invited them to Empowerment Seminars at the Castle. Attendance grew to nearly 500 as word spread about the effectiveness of the tools. Leaders shared the problems their congregations brought them and learned the tools from The Scientology Handbook.
Thirty-two percent of South Africans were without steady employment. People were turning to drugs. And churches were losing attendance.
They each took a copy home and used the tools in their sermons and seminars. The congregations, ministers and pastors saw results and wanted more. They were all enrolled on the free online courses. The successes grew.
The Empowerment Seminars rekindled interest in churches, bringing religion up to where it is supposed to be: that beacon of hope, the place where one finds help. Church attendance increased by 20 percent.
Rev. Lekoana says, “We are a movement influencing people positively to show them the difference, to show them how to live a better life. And that’s how we are going to have a better world.”
Learn more about Rev. Lekoana’s work at Scientology.TV/RevLekoana.
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