ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast
Most Christian giving doesn't produce a single soul saved.
Welcome to ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast — the show for Christians who measure what really matters: not just meals and clean water, but souls saved and lives transformed. Tim calls it EROI — the eternal return on investment.
Host Tim Barker is the founder of ROI Ministry, a free resource that reviews over 100 ministries each year and publishes a top-10 list of ministries that beat the best charities in the world on cost per person served — while still sharing the gospel and making disciples. Every dollar of every copy of Tim's book, BOOM: What to Do When Life Blows Up Around You, goes straight to vetted gospel + compassion ministries. No fees. No overhead. No skim.
New episodes every Thursday. Topics include: the parable of the talents, the real cost-per-soul in Christian giving, donor advised funds, the kingdom advisor movement, and the verses on the poor that the prosperity gospel skipped.
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ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast
Latest Episodes
The Mailbox Club: $0.80 Disciples a Child to Jesus — A Partner Highlight with John Mark Eager (Ep. 12)
For about 80 cents a child, The Mailbox Club walks a kid through a complete course of Bible lessons. Last year: 17.3 million children enrolled, nearly 12 million completed the course, and 8 million made a decision for Christ — across 100+ count...
The Bucket Ministry: 220 Come to Jesus in a Week — A Partner Highlight with Cory Akin (Ep. 11)
220 people came to know Jesus in a single week — through clean water, in a Nairobi slum, at a cost of $1.34 per person per year. In this Partner Highlight, Tim talks with Cory Akin of The Bucket Ministry about how a CFO became a missionary, why...
Here's Life Africa: How $0.95 Brings One Person to Jesus — A Partner Highlight with Andy Blakeslee (Ep. 10)
$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 f...
Neverthirst: How $50 Gives Someone Clean Water For Life — A Partner Highlight with Matt Letourneau (Ep. 9)
$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 2...
Explore God: 3 Billion Gospel Presentations for 3 Cents Each — Jamie Radtke (Ep. 8)
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 ...
