Hit hard by business failures and bankruptcy, Glenn and Regina were in such a bad place they couldn’t even afford a refrigerator for food. There didn’t seem to be a way out, until they discovered a biblical principle from Pat Robertson that ...
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- [Narrator] Glenn Hendersonof Jacksonville, Florida,
serves as a consultant for corporations
like Hobby Lobby and theAmerican Bible Society.
He and his wife, Regina,are successful entrepreneurs
who seem to have it all.
- My husband and I are type A individuals,
we're very driven, we're nonstop.
- [Narrator] When they first married,
the Henderson's starteda transport business,
and initially, did very well.
- We had been living very, very high
and enjoying things thatwere shiny and glitzy,
but not really focusing on the god
that we had both beenraised to love and know.
We were more takers than givers,
we got in trouble with theInternal Revenue Service
and we incurred a lot of debt.
- Well, it was one blow after another,
one loss after another,
and then that was the timethat we just hit rock bottom.
- [Narrator] They hadto declare bankruptcy.
For the next two years,
the Hendersons struggled to start over,
but all their efforts seemed fruitless.
- We were so poor that wedidn't even have a refrigerator,
we were living out of a cooler.
There was no income
and I had to used toput change into a jar,
whatever lose money I had in my pocket,
and so we actually lived onthat for quite some time.
- [Narrator] Then Reginastarted watching The 700 Club
and shared what she waslearning with Glenn.
- [Regina] The 700 Clubwas very instrumental
in encouraging us during that time period.
- We heard about this law of reciprocity
from this guy by thename of Pat Robertson,
it was at that timethat we began to realize
that God has everythingto say about his money
and money that he affords us to manage,
and that became very important to us
in honoring our Lord
and honoring God in the things that we do.
- We understood from our time of learning
that we should pray about it,
we should ask God to help us,
we should give of ourselves.
We didn't have any money to give,
so we would go to the food banks
and we would help there.
- I delivered meals on wheels,
I remember taking careof our elderly people,
and just say, "Well, Lord,I don't have money to give,
"but I will give up my time,
"I will give whatever talents I have."
- [Narrator] Soon after, Glenn and Regina
got work as contractorsand launched AFC Worldwide,
a transport company from their apartment.
They started tithing from their income
and gradually workedtheir way out of debt.
- We came to learn that yougrow as the business grow,
so when the business actuallyoutgrew the apartment
is when we sublet it, another location,
and then once we grew too big for that,
then we got our own place.
- [Narrator] In 2008, the company
they contracted for folded,
so the Hendersons took overmany of their contracts.
The very next year, theybrought in $200,000 in revenue.
As they grew, they continued to give.
Soon they were servinghigh-profile clients,
including Motorola, Hallmarkand the White House.
- As we were focused andcommitted to biblical principles
and not borrowing and justdoing things little by little,
as Deuteronomy, as those passages says,
the Lord gave us inquiriesand he provided for us,
we had favor, and we beginto see our lives change.
- [Narrator] By the time they sold
their company three years later,
sales were trending tohit 100 million dollars.
- It just change our whole world,
that the business does not belong to us,
it belongs to God.
- [Narrator] Glenn nowoverseas and serves as a pastor
of a 100,000-square-footministry and commercial space.
He and Regina continuetithing from their investments
and enjoy teaching othersthe principles of giving.
- We're givers now,
we enjoy the fact thatwe can not only tithe,
but that we can do above.
- It's really not about the money,
it's about your heart
and it's about how youmanage God's resources.
He will provide for us ifwe manage things his way.
Money is a cruel master,but a great servant,
and if we use it to bring glory to God,
he will bless you.