DAUGHTERS OF OUR LIVING LORD & SAVIOR

Programs

1. 5 Main Conference - DOLLS hosted our annual 4-day training conference in August. The event was attended in- person by 25 student Officers aka: 5 Main who represented the five active chapters who would be operating during the 2023-2024 school year. The event was also attended by fifteen Ambassadors so they could be trained under the same curriculum that our officers received in the event that an officer needed to be replaced mid-year. Training content included an overview of church history New Testament Reliability the Absolutes vs. Convictions of Christianity a worldview training on cultural hot topics logic and reason student religious liberties leadership development team-building exercises and personality analysis and training. As a student-led ministry this preparation was essential toward equipping these young leaders for the work of ministry they performed on their campuses during the school year. The ladies reported back to us that this conference was critical to them as it helped them gain the skills and confidence to run their ministries as student-initiated and student-led enterprises as the Equal Access Act demands.

   $14,147 spent
   58% of program spending

2. 5 Main Boot Camp - In January each of the active officers from the 2022-2023 school year leadership teams were required to attend Boot Camp. Boot Camp is a mid-year refresher course. After serving in ministry for the prior 4-months our student leaders were inevitably introduced to the challenges of ministry. Our aim at this event was to pick the officers up dress their ministry-battle-wounds and fire them up to finish their course of leadership strong through the end of the school year May. Officers left reunited as a team reinvigorated for the work of ministry and reengaged with the vision and mission of DOLLS.

   $366 spent
   2% of program spending

3. Apologetics Conference - In February 2023 DOLLS officers & members attended an Apologetics Conference put on by Stand to Reason called Reality. Biblical worldview training is an important focus of the DOLLS ministry. We were delighted to be able to bring just under 75 of our members and officers to attend this conference with us. The students heard from well-known speakers that helped our girls understand that what they believe about the world determines how they live in the world and that living outside of the Christian worldview puts them at odds with the way the world is reality. At the completion of this event the girls show a demonstrable increase in their confidence and understanding of the Christian faith and worldview. Officers left encouraged to finish their year of ministry strong and several members testified that it was this conference that emboldened them to apply to be officers themselves for the 2023-2024 school year.

   $6,339 spent
   26% of program spending

4. Betrothal Banquet - This program related event is a bi-annual event for DOLLS taking place in the even- numbered calendar years; therefore this was an off-year for this program.

   $1,140 spent
   5% of program spending

5. In the Spring of 2023 we closed out our 2022-2023 school year with SIX active chapters. These young Christian leaders met faithfully on a weekly basis throughout the school year devotedly gathering week-upon-week to teach each other from God's Word and to encourage each other in their faiths. It is with confidence before the Lord that we can state that the Gospel was declared boldly with accuracy and with urgency. Moving into the 2023-2024 school year five of those six chapters were able to successfully pass the torch down to future leaders who then picked up the mantel and led the chapters into the next school year. Sadly one of our chapters Curtis MS was unable to find students willing to lead so the chapter was dissolved.

   $2,228 spent
   9% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,220.