Generosity is Catalyst for Thriving Business

CBN.com Bob and Nicole Schwartz and their young son Joshua live in the quiet suburbs of Marietta, Penn.

In 1997 the math wiz and the young entrepreneur fell in love. She was a math education college student at Elizabeth Town College, while Bobby was an outgoing businessman in the same city. They married on September 23, 2000.

Bob and Nicole own a successful magazine called The Home Business Advertiser.

“[The magazine is] kind of like a matchmaker between people who are offering work from home—opportunities like direct sales and network marketing—to people who are looking for them,” says Bob. “It’s kind of like the bridge between those two people.”

Though business was booming, Bob was plagued by years of stress and anxiety.

“When I was young,” explains Bob, “our parents and our family went through a bankruptcy where we lost everything. We lost our house and our cars and just went through a real trying time. 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. The next month we made $900, so we gave $90. Then, in our fourth month, we made over $4,000, so we gave $400,” Bob explains.

Bob and Nicole’s magazine business became more and more profitable. That’s when 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 recalls. “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.”

When they gave to CBN, they couldn’t believe what happened.

“The very next month,” says Bob, “our magazine made $10,000, which it had never done before.”

“That was a five-fold increase in our profits, and that just blew us away. We really didn’t expect that,” says Nicole.

As they prayed and continued to give, something else started to change.

“When we started to give first to God, that’s when the blessings and the deliverance really started to happen in our lives,” Bob says. “He delivered me from the fear of ever having to worry about money.”

Now Bob and Nicole’s magazine is growing by leaps and bounds.

“The issue that we just closed now was our biggest issue ever,” says a grateful Bob.

“Each time we give,” Nicole says, “He blesses us more abundantly than we could’ve guessed.”

Adds Bob, “I show up for work every day and make my calls, but God is blessing us with a business that is bigger than we are.”

God wants to bless you too, just as He has blessed Bob and Nicole for their faithfulness. One way you can give to God’s work is through CBN. Not only will you reach thousands each day with a message of truth and hope through The 700 Club, you will also help feed and clothe children around the world, bring medical aid to those suffering and so much more. Please join with us today.