The ELCA Task Force on Women and Justice: One in Christ, has written a draft as a step toward the development of a social statement that will be considered by the 2019 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. Draft social statements are a means to invite everyone to participate in the process toward the creation of an official statement. There will be two hearings around this statement in the Southeastern Iowa Synod: Saturday, September 22, 2018 at Faith Lutheran Church in Clive, Iowa from 10 – 11:30 AM, Sunday, September 23, 2018 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport, Iowa from 3:15 – 4:45 PM.