Chad’s heart disease led to serious financial challenges. He and his wife, Kim, found a way out—and taught their kids this life-changing strategy. It's a plan that can bring your entire family financial health too.
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Reporter: CHO CHAD AND
KIM LIVED OFF THEIR FARMS.
I BEGGED MY HUSBAND FOR A
GOAT.
HE SAID YOU CAN HAVE A GOAT
IF YOU DO SOMETHING WITH
IT.
WE DID LOTS OF THINGS.
WE MADE CHEESE AND ICE
CREAM.
I LOVE THE OUTDOORS, SO I
THANK GOD FOR GIVING ME HIS
NATURE TO WORK WITH.
Reporter: A FEW YEARS
EARLIER, CHAD DEVELOPED
HEART DISEASE AND HAD TO
HAVE OPEN-HEART SURGERY.
HE WAS UNABLE TO WORK FOR
FOUR MONTHS.
DESPITE THE CHALLENGES, CHAD
AND KIM CONTINUED TO TITHE
AND CONTINUED TO WORK,
SELLING THE GOAT MILK.
IT SEEMED LIKE ANY TIME
WE WERE IN REAL NEED,
SOMEONE WOULD CALL AND SAY,
I NEED 10 BARS OF SOAP AND
WE WOULD HAVE WHAT WE
NEEDED.
Reporter: WHILE CHAD
WAS LAID UP FROM SURGERY,
FRIENDS FROM CHURCH PUT
THEIR MONEY TOGETHER AND
TOOK CARE OF THEIR BILLS AND
BOUGHT THE FAMILY
GROCERIES.
WE HAD $1,000 IN VISA
GIFT CARDS, AND ANOTHER $500
IN FOOD CARDS FOR MONEY.
Reporter: WHEN THEY RAN
OUT OF HAY TO FEED LIAR
THEIR ANIMALS, A NEIGHBOR
HAPPENED TO CALL AND SAY HE
HAD SOME HAY.
I SAID, I CAN'T PAY YOU.
HE SAID YOU CAN ME WHEN YOU
GET THE MONEY.
Reporter: THE BUSHY'S
HAVE ADOPTED THREE CHILDREN,
AND THE OLDEST ONE IS IN
COLLEGE RIGHT NOW.
"ORPHANS' PROMISE" IS THE
REASON THEY JOINED "THE 700
CLUB."
I LOVE HOW THEY CARE FOR
THE ORPHANS AND FEED THEM
AND CLOTHE THEM.
Reporter: AND THEIR
9-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER,
ELIZABETH, IS LEARNING TO
GIVE, TOO.
IN FACT, SHE LOVES CBN SO
MUCH, INSTEAD OF SAVING HER
MONEY FOR A PONY, SHE GIVES
HER $20 TO CBN.
I KEPT ON WATCHING
CBNMENT ANCBN.
AND I FELT LIKE A BIG PAIN
IN MY HEART TO GIVE.
I TALKED TO MY MOM AND DAD,
AND THEY SAID YOU CAN GIVE.
I ACTUALLY STARTED GIVING
JARS TO THE CBN.
IT BLESSES ME VERY MUCH
TO SEE OUR DAUGHTER GIVING,
AND TO UNDERSTAND THE
PRINCIPLES OF OBEYING GOD'S
WORD.
Reporter: THE BUSHYS
UNDERSTAND YOU CANNOT
OUTGIVE GOD.
THAT'S WHY THEY INCREASED
THEIR GIVING TO CBN.
ONLY GOD KNOWS HOW MANY
APPLES YOU CAN GET FROM ONE
SEED.
IF YOU GIVE TO CBN AND GOD,
YOU WILL NEVER SEE THE END
OF THE BLESSING.
YOU SHOULD GIVE, BECAUSE
IF YOU GIVE IT WILL BLESS
GOD.