$1.5 MILLION WE OWED.

AND THEN THE LETTERS KEPT

COMING.

THAT WOKE ME UP IN THE

MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.

THEY WANT MORE MONEY THAN

YOU EVER COULD POSSIBLY

HAVE.

WE WERE DRIVING THE CAR AND

JUST CRYING.

THERE IS NO WAY WE HAVE THIS

MONEY.

Reporter: WHEN THE

RECESSION HIT IN 2008, LARRY

AND LAURA WATCHED THEIR

ROOFING BUSINESS TAKE A

DIVE, RESULTING IN

$1.5 MILLION IN BACK TAXES.

NATIONAL SINGLE-PLY HAD ONCE

BEEN A MULTI-MILLION

ENTERPRISE, INSTALLING ROOFS

FOR LARGE CORPORATIONS.

BUT NOW THE ECONOMIC

ELEVATOR THAT HAD TAKEN THE

BUSINESS UP WAS YOU GOING

DOWN.

WE WERE ALWAYS HAVING TO

PUT MONEY INTO THE COMPANY

AND MONEY INTO THE COMPANY.

AND THEN YOU START RUNNING

OUT AND I HAD NO CUSHION.

Reporter: LARRY AND

LAURA AGREED THEY WOULD KEEP

TITHING AND WHAT LITTLE THE

COMPANY DID MAKE.

YOU CAN'T AFFORD NOT TO

DO IT.

IF I'M GOING TO TRUST HIM TO

SAVE ME AND TAKE ME TO

HEAVEN WHEN I DIE, YOU HAVE

TO TRUST HIM WITH THIS.

IT IS EASY TO GIVE WHEN

TIMES ARE EASY.

WHEN TIMES ARE TOUGH, YOU'VE

GOT TO SUCK IT UP.

Reporter: ONE PLACE

THEY CONTINUED GIVING WAS

CBN.

LAURA SAYS BECAUSE GOD TOLD

THEM TWO.

I LIKE GIVING TO

POVERTY-STRICKEN PLACE, AND

THE PEOPLE COME TO KNOW

CRIES.

Reporter: THE COUPLE'S

FAITHFULNESS IN GIVING ENDED

LAST FULL.

ONE OF LARRY'S COMPETITORS

DECIDED TO DOWNSIDE, GIVING

LARRY THE OPPORTUNITY TO

BID, MAKING HUNDREDS OF

THOUSANDS MORE.

IT IS LIKE A WEIGHT WAS

LIFTED OFF YOUR SHOULDER.

IT WASN'T A SPRINKLE.

IT WAS LIKE A DOWNPOUR.

IT WAS WONDERFUL.

IT IS ALMOST OVERWHELMING.

Reporter: IN LESS THAN

A YEAR, THE COUPLE PAID

THEIR BACK TAXES AND OTHER

DEBTS.

THEY ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO

GIVE.

DO IT.

YOU MUST DO IT.

YOU CAN'T AFFORD NOT TO DO

IT.

GOD WILL HELP YOU TO BE

FAITHFUL AND TRUE.

HE WILL HONOR THOSE WHO

HONOR HIM.

YOU CANNOT AFFORD NOT TO

TRUST GOD.

ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE DOWN

LIKE THAT, YOU CANNOT AFFORD

NOT TO TRUST GOD.