Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center

Keynote Address at the Grand Opening of the Church of Scientology of San Francisco (cont.)

Yet, despite those similarities, each one also presents their own unique circumstances: ethnic diversity, socio-economic standing, their most pressing concerns in the here-and-now. Which is why, each of the new churches we have recently opened represent that model for all similar cities of this world.

Tampa: It's a church that stands in the shadow of our Mecca and with its field composed of the top Scientologists, was a first test on how rapidly a church could be built from the ground up. Today it's the 13th largest church on Earth.

Johannesburg: It's one of the farthest points on the globe. Moreover, it's in a nation where 90% of its population was suppressed for more than 50 years and, although now freed, has the highest crime and unemployment rate on Earth, over 40%. So it was established as a model to bring our programs into the world's most underprivileged townships on a massive scale.

It's already begun with their Deputy Prime Minister presenting our education programs to Parliament, while we further are providing materials to open thousands of Volunteer Minister groups. In just a month that organization has grown to the 14th largest on Earth.

Then there is Buffalo which, although the second-largest city in New York State, represents "Any-Town USA" or, for that matter, the world. It is comprised of your blue-collar workingman and is representative of middle class communities everywhere. Yet it, too, now stands as a model of the Golden Age of Tech, and even its city leaders just urged the org staff and public to achieve St. Hill size.

Which brings us to San Francisco, and a city far different from them all. For if we speak of bringing our help to communities everywhere, here stands a city representing them all, with one of the most diverse cultures on Earth, diverse ethnics, diverse races, diverse creeds.

Even more than that, and let's face it, San Francisco is one of the finest cities on the planet, and only, arguably, rivaled by places like New York City, Paris, London, and maybe a handful of others. In a word, San Francisco is truly world-class.

And, if this is where it all began, then it was time, after all these years, for your church to take its rightful position in Scientology. So, as for where you stand today, right at this moment?

Well if San Francisco represents a world-class city, then what you have created is the world-class church that now stands at the very pinnacle of all of Scientology!

So now, it is time to move forward. For this is a place you can not only achieve personal victory over the reactive mind, and attain the freedom of Clear, it is a place from which you can bring that freedom to an entire city.