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 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. Today, that same country is 70 million people and 62% Christian — 40 million professing believers, up from 14 million when the ministry began. The ministry now works across East Africa in Tanzania, Malawi, and Uganda, with 47 teams deployed to million-person geographies.In this Partner Highlight episode of ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast, host Tim Barker sits down with Andy Blakeslee, leader of Here's Life Africa, to walk through:The Amazon jungle origin: Andy grew up in the same place in Ecuador where Jim Elliott, Nate Saint, and three other missionaries were martyred in 1956 — and accepted Christ at age 5 in that jungleThe Toña story: the Helio Courier plane that flew Andy and his family was named after the first Waorani Indian to receive Christ — and then was martyred for going back to his own tribe with the gospelThe 14-year detour: EDS, Accenture, and "I'll never be a missionary" — until God's call was unmistakableThe $0.95-per-decision number: third-party-validated by Calvin Edwards, and how it compares to the 30,000× upside in kingdom impact when resources reach the world's poorest, lost peopleThe LAMP method (Listen, Ask, Consider the Message, Pray) — a four-letter, four-week discovery Bible study that turns 3,000 raised hands a day into small groups meeting weekly for 7-10 yearsHow $42 starts a small-group Bible study that meets weekly for up to 10 years — about 40 cents per person per year for a decade of discipleshipHow $2,250 per month (or $27,000 per year) sponsors an entire team and produces roughly 50 evangelistic crusades a yearThe 0.33% problem: only one-third of one percent of all Christian giving reaches the world's poorest, lost people — and why that number has not budged in two decadesWhy the Great Commission shows up 5x in the New Testament and the Greatest Commandment only 3x — and what that means for how you allocate your giving portfolioHow to give to Here's Life Africa anonymously through the ROI Ministry Top 10 (no fees, no skim, 100% reaches the ministry)About ROI MinistryROI Ministry is a free resource that reviews 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. Tim calls it EROI: the eternal return on investment.Every dollar Tim receives from BOOM goes to vetted gospel + compassion ministries. No fees. No overhead. No skim.Free resources:https://roiministry.org/https://hereslifeafrica.org/BOOM book: https://www.amazon.com/BOOM-What-When-Blows-Around/dp/1646459016/Subscribe and know you're making a difference.