Bob and Nicole Schwartz, with their young son, Joshua, live in the quiet suburbs of Marietta, Pennsylvania.In 1997, math whiz and the young entrepreneur Nicole fell in love. She was a young math education college student at Elizabethtown College.
Bob was an outgoing young businessman in the same city. They married on September 23, 2000.
Bob and Nicole own a successful magazine called The Home Business Advertiser.
"It's a magazine that is kind of like a match-maker between people who are offering work from home--opportunities like direct sales and network marketing--to people who are looking for them," Bob said. "So it's kind of like the bridge between those two people."
While business is booming now, things weren't always looking up for Bob. He was plagued by years of stress and anxiety.
"When I was young, my parents and my family went through a bankruptcy where we lost everything. We lost our house and our cars and just went through a real trying time," Bob said. "It was the time before that and after that that was tough."
Bob had a heart attack. He survived, but the stress of making their business work was still taking its toll. But when Bob and Nicole started to give in obedience to God's Word, something amazing happened.
"It was $300 our first month, so we gave $30," Bob said. "The next month we made $900, so we gave $90. And then in our fourth month we made over $4,000, so we gave $400."
Bob and Nicole's magazine, The Home Business Advertiser, started to explode. While their business took off, Bob and Nicole prayed for God to specifically direct their giving.
"It came to our hearts that we should just be giving to the people who have the greatest need," Nicole said. "Then when we saw the piece on the wells one night on The 700 Club, we just thought to ourselves, 'Wow, that's it!' These people don't even have water to drink."
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SOURCE: CBN
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