Criminal Justice Projected Timeline

 

Record of Task Force Reports 

This timeline lists key events and activities in the process that leads to consideration by the 2013 Churchwide Assembly of an ELCA social statement on criminal justice. 

 

2008              December
Task Force Meeting #1

2009 Winter/Spring
listening posts

Spring
Task Force Meeting #2

May/June
Task Force meets online

Fall
Task Force meeting #3

2010 Winter
  Task Force meeting #4

August
Churchwide Assembly (Report)

Fall
Task Force meeting #5 - finalizes study

2011 February
Study published for use throughout the church

Spring
Task Force meeting #6

Winter
Task Force meeting #7 - finalizes draft

2012 March
First draft of social statement published

March to Fall
Hearings on first draft

Fall
Task Force meeting #8 - what are we hearing?

2013 January
Task Force meeting #9 - completes work on Proposed Social Statement

February
Task Force signs off on Proposed Social Statement

March
Program Committee (CS) receives Proposed Social Statement for consideration

April
ELCA Church Council receives text of Proposed Social Statement and approves it for forwarding to CWA 

May
Proposed Social Statement published

August
Churchwide Assembly considers statement for adoption

October
Text of ELCA Social Statement on criminal justice published

2014 April
Study guide to social statement published by Department for Studies