Doulos Ministries, Inc.

Summary

Doulos Ministries, Inc. ("Doulos") purpose is to produce leaders to share God’s truth in ministry, the business world and the home. Doulos provides leadership training through LeadTime, the primary discipleship training program, as well as Shelterwood, a residential treatment program, and The Sky's The Limit, an inner-city camp and training program. LeadTime takes college graduate aged men and women and trains them through Biblical studies, mentoring relationships and ministry experience. Shelterwood is a residential care facility with a two-fold purpose of training LeadTime students in leadership roles while providing counseling and support for teenagers and their families in a time of crisis. The Sky's The Limit provides a free Christian day camp experience for children to develop leadership from the inner city - for the inner city. Doulos is Greek for bondservant, and Doulos challenges its staff and students to become bondservants of Christ. Doulos was formed in 1974 and was originally called Richard Beach Evangelistic Association, but changed its name in 1985. This organization is a nonprofit. Contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. It is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).

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Doulos Ministries, Inc. ("Doulos") purpose is to produce leaders to share God’s truth in ministry, the business world and the home. Doulos provides leadership training through LeadTime, the primary discipleship training program, as well as Shelterwood, a residential treatment program, and The Sky's The Limit, an inner-city camp and training program. LeadTime takes college graduate aged men and women and trains them through Biblical studies, mentoring relationships and ministry experience. Shelterwood is a residential care facility with a two-fold purpose of training LeadTime students in leadership roles while providing counseling and support for teenagers and their families in a time of crisis. The Sky's The Limit provides a free Christian day camp experience for children to develop leadership from the inner city - for the inner city. Doulos is Greek for bondservant, and Doulos challenges its staff and students to become bondservants of Christ. Doulos was formed in 1974 and was originally called Richard Beach Evangelistic Association, but changed its name in 1985.

This organization is a nonprofit. Contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. It is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).

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Doulos describes its program accomplishments as follows:

LeadTime
20 students participated in LeadTime in 1999. 28 new students entered in September. Since 1980, LeadTime has graduated 429 students.

Shelterwood
65 families participated in Shelterwood in 1999 (25 in Branson, MO and 40 in Denver, CO). Since 1982, Shelterwood has helped restore 469 families.

The Sky's The Limit
1,726 campers came to The Sky's The Limit during 1999. 103 leaders were trained, 213 volunteers served from 16 mission groups. 12 Metro schools brought 773 students to the Denver facility for esteem-building activities. Since 1986, The Sky's The Limit has served 16,069 campers and trained 1,217 leaders.

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Doulos uses the following to express its statement of faith:

In the verbal, plenary inspiration of the Bible and that it is the supreme and final authority for faith and life.

In the Unity and trinity of the Godhead; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. These three Persons are one God, having precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections.

In Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son, our sole Mediator; we believe further in His eternal existence as God, His incarnations and virgin birth, His sinless life, His death on the cross as the substitutionary atonement for sin, His literal, bodily resurrection from the dead, His present ministry of intercession in Heaven, and His personal, future return to earth.

In the Holy Spirit, His personality, and His activity in regeneration, sanctification, and preservation.

That man was created in the image of God, that he sinned in Adam, and that he is now a sinner by nature and by choice.

In salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, apart from human merit, works, or ceremonies.

That the church is the spiritual body of which Christ is the Head and that there is a twofold aspect to the church, the universal and the local.

In the resurrection of the human body; the eternal existence of all men either in heaven or Hell; in divine judgments, rewards, and punishments.

That we are under obligation to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

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Ranking Category	Rating	Overall Rank	Leadership Training Sector
Overall Efficiency Rating		166 of 348	9 of 16
Fund Acquisition Decision		166 of 348	9 of 16
Resource Allocation Decision		of 348	2 of 16
Asset Utilization Decision		of 348	2 of 16