ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast

$0.95. That's the third-party-validated cost — confirmed by Calvin Edwards & Company — of one person praying to receive Jesus through Here's Life Africa. One of the ministries Tim's team has kept on the ROI Ministry Top 10 since the first annual list. Here's Life Africa has been at this for 29 years. It started in Tanzania, a country of 30 million that was 47% Christian. To...

$50. That's what it costs — sustainably, for life — to take one person off the water crisis and put the gospel in their hands. One of the ministries Tim's team has kept on the ROI Ministry Top 10 since the first annual list. Since 2008, Neverthirst has provided over 1.6 million people in the 10/40 window with sustainable clean water and the gospel — posted 17 consecutive years of growth,...

3 cents. That's the cost of a single gospel presentation at Explore God (formerly Global Media Outreach) — one of the ministries Tim's team has kept on the ROI Ministry Top 10 for nearly a decade. Since 2004, Explore God has shared the gospel more than 3 billion times. In 13 languages. Across the poorest and least-reached places on earth. On the smartphones of people in Thailand coffee f...

$2.90 a week. That's what it costs to keep a girl from being sold. In the first episode of the new Partner Highlight series on ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast, host Tim Barker sits down with Michele Rickett — Founder and CEO of She Is Safe, a survivor of childhood abuse who has spent the last 24 years building one of the most effective gospel-centered anti-trafficking ministries...

0.33%. 30,000×. Two numbers. One question: what kind of steward are you going to be? In 2001, the Gordon Conwell Center for the Study of Global Christianity published the number. In 2025, they updated it. In 24 years, total Christian giving nearly tripled — and the percentage that reaches the world's unevangelized barely moved. That's the 0.33% problem. The 30,000× is the upside. When a...

100×. That's how much ROI Ministry's top 10 ministries outperform the world's best charities in cost per person served — meals, clean water, shelter, medical care, housing, and protection from sex trafficking — while still sharing Jesus and making disciples. So why do most Christian wealth advisors still point their clients elsewhere? In Episode 5 of ROI Ministry: The Don't Bur...

What does $10 do when you give it through the right ministry? $10. Two people see a doctor and discover Jesus. Three people learn the skills they need to prevent human trafficking. Seven people get clean water for a year in Jesus' name. Twenty people make indicated decisions for Christ. Seventy-six hand mills in Africa. Most Christians give and hope. This episode shows you how to give and kno...

The parable of the talents ends in darkness. Not metaphorically. Literally. The third servant — the one who buried what he was given — is cast into outer darkness. There is weeping. There is gnashing of teeth. Jesus told this story to make a point about what we do with what God entrusts. Two servants got to work. They traded, they invested, they doubled what they were given. The master called them...

Twice. That's how often Jesus talked about the poor compared to the Great Commission. We have built entire movements around the Great Commission. Most Christians have never heard the rest. In Episode 2 of ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast, host Tim Barker walks through the research his team did on the words of Jesus — how often He spoke about the poor, the lost, generosity, money,...

Most Christian giving doesn't produce a single soul saved. In the very first episode of ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast, host Tim Barker opens the books on the largest untapped opportunity in the modern church. The Gordon Conwell Center for the Study of Global Christianity tracked where every Christian dollar actually goes. After 25 years and a near-tripling of total giving, the...