Marriage Seminar Check List

PRE-EVENTS Due date:

___Set Date and Connect with Seminar Leaders ___________

___Advertising--Posters on Wings ___________

___Identification of Host Church ___________

___Motel Reservations & Meeting Room--Woodville Inn ___________

___Applications to Inmates ___________

___Lists of Inmates & Wives to Warden -- Initial Screenings ___________

APPROVALS

___Inmates’ IOC of acceptance As soon as selection

___Inmates’ IOC of denial “ “ “ “ “ “ “

___Inmates’ IOC Standby (If any) “ “ “ “ “ “ “

___Wives’ Letters of acceptance/instructions/deadlines (with postcards) “ “ “ “ “ “ “

___Wives’ Letters of standby “ “ “ “ “ “ “

___Wives’ Letters of denial “ “ “ “ “ “ “

___Example of letters sent to Warden “ “ “ “ “ “ “

___List of Inmates by name, #, & house “ “ “ “ “ “ “

PREPARATIONS Due date:

** Month Before

___Confirmation of Host Church (invited to wives orientation) ___________

___Host Church Leader Visit to Unit ___________

___Initial IOC to Food Services about final date and times ___________

** 2 Weeks Before

___Lay-in for men for Orientations and Seminar ___________

___Confirmation of Seminar Leaders ___________

___Confirmation list Wives Started ___________

___1st Pre-Meeting with men for orientation (get clothes size) ___________

** 1 Week / Monday Before Seminar

___Confirmation Received by Tuesday from Wives ___________

___Check standbys & finalize list of confirmations

___Clearance & Outline Distributed

___Rooming list to Woodville Inn

___Check for Meeting Room for Wives Orientation Friday Evening

___2nd Meeting with Inmates (Wed./Thurs Evening)

** Friday Night Post-Seminar Follow-up

___Clothes and table cloths to chapel/chaplain’s office ___T/Y to Seminar Leaders

___List of Inmates and Wives to Seminar Leaders ___T/Y to Host Church

___List of Inmates to third shift (to clear them for showers at 0500) ___T/Y to Food Services

___Wives’ Orientation at Motel meeting room (7:30 PM) ___T/Y to Necessities

___Media Release from wives taken

** Saturday Morning

___0600 Men in chapel to change clothes -- Media release from men

___Arrangement of chapel for seminar

___Men write notes to wives on blackboard

___Saturday Evening, Check with Food Services on return of flatware