Information about the Advisory Panel Process is available in a brochure from the Office of Abuse Prevention. Details of the panel process are available below. The advisory panel weighs the information to determine whether the allegation is both probable and serious. If the advisory panel believes the allegations are neither probable nor serious, the advisory panel ceases its work. The matter is turned over to the executive committee that requested the panel.
ARTs undergo extensive training to conduct the advisory panel process.
In some cases and in some churches, the full council will be convened. No, the advisory panel is an ecclesiastical procedure intended to give accuser and accused a non-adversarial environment to discuss the allegations. All rights reserved.