Two years later, in 1965, the couple graduated with honors from Middle Tennessee State University. The couple, who now host the daily television program "LIFE Today", started their ministry together in late 1965 and then went into full-time television ministry, through the Rev. Dr. Billy Graham, in 1968. James and Betty have three children and 11 grandchildren, and reside in Fort Worth, where their program "LIFE Today" and their ministry "LIFE Outreach" are based. They lost their daughter Robin to throat cancer in late 2012.