$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 in the world.

In one of the most honest conversations about money and ministry you will hear this year, Michele walks through how She Is Safe keeps girls in high-risk communities safe for less than the cost of a venti latte a week — and how that work has cut trafficking in pilot villages by 85%. She shares the story of one woman sold at age 4 for a case of beer, the husband who later said "we don't allow that here anymore," and the men who ended up donating land, baking bricks, and building the school themselves. She also opens up about her own past, the forgiveness that set her free, and the moment she looked over a fence in Africa and saw a girl being sold — and heard God say: "What are you going to do for these children of mine?"

This is the first Partner Highlight — sit-downs with the leaders of the ministries on the ROI Ministry Top 10. If you have ever wondered what a vetted, gospel-centered, auditable, impact-per-dollar ministry actually looks like in practice — this is it.

She Is Safe served 100,502 women and girls in their last audited year. They are ready to scale from 11 countries to 14 — but not without partners.

To give directly: sheissafe.org To support the work through ROI Ministry's National Christian Foundation platform (no fees, no skim): roiministry.org

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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 dollar flows to a faithful, fruit-bearing ministry serving the poorest and least reached, the same dollar can produce 3,000 to 30,000 times the eternal impact of where the average gift goes today.

In the season-one recap of ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast, host Tim Barker walks the entire series in a single pass: the global giving crisis (Episode 1), the words of Jesus on the poor and the lost (Episode 2), the framework for wise generosity (Episode 3), the free due diligence tool (Episode 4), and the kingdom-advisor litmus test (Episode 5). Then he lands the question that holds the whole season together: are you inspecting the fruit of where your dollars go?

In this episode, you'll hear:

• The 2025 update: $677 billion in Christian giving, 0.33% to the unevangelized, 0.1% to unreached peoples
• The 30,000× upside: the maximum EROI measured across 100+ ministries reviewed
• Why "follow your heart" is the worst stewardship advice in the Bible (Jeremiah 17:9)
• The 1 Timothy 6:17–19 framework: God first, family, local church, strategic kingdom investments
• The fruit-inspector test: how to evaluate any ministry in 60 seconds
• The kingdom-advisor litmus test: 100× the world's best charities while sharing Jesus
• Why ROI Ministry never touches a dollar — and the donor-advised funds that make it possible

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 one of Tim's dollars from every copy of his book, BOOM: What to Do When Life Blows Up Around You, goes straight to vetted gospel + compassion ministries. No fees. No overhead. No skim.

Subscribe to ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast and know you're making a difference.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The top-10 ministry list and 90+ reviewed ministries: roiministry.org
• BOOM: What to Do When Life Blows Up Around You: https://www.amazon.com/BOOM-What-When-Blows-Around/dp/1646459016/

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 Bury It Podcast, host Tim Barker names the litmus test of a true kingdom advisor — and tells the story of the Christian wealth-management book that cited the parable of the talents to defend an "all in the family" legacy approach, then blocked him when he pointed out the verses on the poor the book had skipped.

This is the episode for the financial advisor, the wealth manager, the kingdom-advisor candidate, and the donor who wants to know the difference between wise kingdom advising and the bigger-barn version.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• The 100× litmus test: how to tell a real kingdom advisor from a Christian brand on a wealth-management brochure
• The parable of the talents as Jesus actually used it — and the book that used it wrong
• Ron Blue's vision: "Help Christians steward money biblically, live generously, and direct resources towards eternal purposes"
• Hugh McCulloch, Ron Blue, and David Wills — the three who said yes when no one else would
• Why "retirement" is not in the New Testament — and what that means for kingdom investing
• The donor-advised-fund trap: bigger barns, smaller grants, wealth managers earning fees on money that should be deployed
• The parable of the rich fool: Luke 12:20 — "This very night, your life will be demanded of you."
• The ECFA / Ministry Watch / Candid / Charity Navigator due diligence stack — and why all four still aren't enough

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 one of Tim's dollars from every copy of his book, BOOM: What to Do When Life Blows Up Around You, goes straight to vetted gospel + compassion ministries. No fees. No overhead. No skim.

Subscribe to ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast and know you're making a difference.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The top-10 ministry list and 90+ reviewed ministries: roiministry.org
• BOOM: What to Do When Life Blows Up Around You: https://www.amazon.com/BOOM-What-When-Blows-Around/dp/1646459016/