{"id":92761,"date":"2023-08-19T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=92761"},"modified":"2023-08-18T18:51:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T22:51:33","slug":"learn-how-a-simple-act-of-kindness-inspired-a-movement-on-meet-a-scientologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/learn-how-a-simple-act-of-kindness-inspired-a-movement-on-meet-a-scientologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn How a Simple Act of Kindness Inspired a Movement on Meet a Scientologist"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Aug. 19, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — \u201cI never realized until I had my first son just how much you can love another person and just how far you\u2019re willing to go for them,\u201d says Scientologist Cristal Logothetis. In an episode of\u00a0Meet a Scientologist\u00a0<\/em>on the Scientology Network, Logothetis describes how she came across the image of a three-year-old boy who drowned off the coast of Greece at the height of the Syrian refugee crisis.\u00a0She was then riveted by news reports of thousands of families arriving in Greece. Parents carried their babies and toddlers in their arms as they trekked across Europe in search of a safe place to raise their families.<\/p>\n

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Image Caption: Cristal Logothetis is featured in an episode of Meet a Scientologist on the Scientology Network.<\/em><\/p>\n

Logothetis set up a\u00a0crowdfunding website to collect 100 baby carriers for these families. The response was overwhelming. Within days, she had not merely surpassed her goal, she\u2019d rented and filled several storage lockers with more than 900 carriers.<\/p>\n

Meet a Scientologist<\/em>\u00a0travels with Logothetis to Greece. She was joined by another woman who simply learned about the project online and volunteered to go with her. They distribute these carriers, showing moms and dads how to use them, often having to resort to sign language.<\/p>\n

Her simple act of kindness has grown into an international movement. Today, her nonprofit,\u00a0Carry the Future<\/a>, has more than 50 volunteer staff and some 6,000 global volunteers. It provides aid to refugees, especially moms and babies, in countries including\u00a0Greece, Jordan, Cyprus, Yemen, Bangladesh, and at the U.S.\/Mexico border.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the amazing things about Carry the Future is that it attracted people from the first day from all walks of life. And it all starts with one person helping one other person,\u201d says Logothetis. \u201cFor us, it was simply a humanitarian mission to make sure that the most vulnerable people on the planet have an opportunity to get help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carry the Future changed the narrative, because it showed people that they\u00a0too<\/em>\u00a0could get involved. \u201cAt the core of our message is \u2018You can make a difference; you can do something about it,\u2019\u201d says Logothetis, \u201cwhich also happens to be very much at the core of Scientology.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Scientology Network debuted on March 12, 2018. Since\u00a0launching<\/a>, the Scientology Network has been viewed in over 240 countries and territories in 17 languages. Satisfying the curiosity of people about Scientology and Founder L. Ron Hubbard, the network takes viewers across six continents, spotlighting the everyday lives of Scientologists, showing the Church as a\u00a0global organization<\/a>, and presenting its\u00a0social betterment programs<\/a>\u00a0that have touched the lives of millions worldwide. The network also\u00a0showcases documentaries<\/a>\u00a0by independent filmmakers who represent a cross-section of cultures and faiths, but share a common purpose of uplifting communities.<\/p>\n

Broadcast from\u00a0Scientology Media Productions<\/a>, the Church\u2019s global media center in Los Angeles, the Scientology Network is available on DIRECTV Channel 320, DIRECTV STREAM, AT&T U-verse and can be streamed at\u00a0Scientology.tv<\/a>, on\u00a0mobile apps<\/a>\u00a0and via the Roku, Amazon Fire and Apple TV platforms.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/meetascientologist.tv<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.scientology.tv\/series\/meet-a-scientologist\/cristal-logothetis.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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VIDEO https:\/\/www.scientology.tv\/series\/meet-a-scientologist\/cristal-logothetis.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Caption: Cristal Logothetis is featured in an episode of Meet a Scientologist on the Scientology Network.<\/p>\n

TAGS: #CristalLogothetis #MeetaScientologist #SyrianRefugees RefugeeCrisis #CarrytheFuture #ScientologyNetwork #Scientology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Aug. 19, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — “I never realized until I had my first son just how much you can love another person and just how far you’re willing to go for them,” says Scientologist Cristal Logothetis. In an episode of Meet a Scientologist on the Scientology Network, Logothetis describes how she came across the image of a three-year-old boy who drowned off the coast of Greece at the height of the Syrian refugee crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8949,"featured_media":92759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[608,12804,10,187],"tags":[17725],"class_list":["post-92761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion-news","category-ap","category-california-news","category-los-angeles-news","tag-meet-a-scientologist","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":3383,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}