Joseph Jacowitz

is the founder and Chairman of the Board of FirstLove Ministries. He was born and raised in a conservative Jewish home in Brooklyn, New York. He trusted Christ as his Messiah and Savior while serving as a rifle instructor in the U.S. Marines in 1976. He has been the pastor of Christ Bible Church, Pleasanton, CA, since 1990. He has a bachelor’s degree in Pastoral Theology. Joe has over forty years of experience in Christian radio, including 30 years with Family Radio and Salem Broadcasting. Joe has used his radio experience to establish FirstLove Radio in 2015, a worldwide, 24-hour live streaming radio station. As a pioneering outreach, Joe has developed live Q&A broadcasts and incorporated them in most FirstLove mission trips overseas. Joe officially established FirstLove Publications in 2006. Joe has been a pastor for 42 years and is a conference speaker at pastors' conferences, bible conferences, and churches.

Joseph Jacowitz and his wife Sherry have been married since 1978 and have five children and eight grandchildren.

Christ Bible Church

Mission Trips

FirstLove Missions Update from Nigeria

By FirstLove Missions | July 23, 2024 | Missions, Nigeria, Updates

God continues to do great things in Lagos and surrounding towns and villages in Nigeria. The FirstLove Ministries mission team was greatly blessed over the ten days of ministry to see the growth of the church, church plants in Lekki, Ipaja and Abeokuta, and the hunger for gospel truth.

The Person & Work of The Holy Spirit – 2024 Conference Report

By Austin Huggins | April 8, 2024 | Missions, United States, Updates

This past February 23-25, 2023, many of the friends and partners of FirstLove Ministries who gathered last year at the Inaugural FirstLove Bible Conference, hosted by FBC Bagdad, came together again for the 2nd Annual FirstLove Bible Conference, with the theme: The Person & Work of The Holy Spirit.

Mission Trip to Nepal – December 2023

By FirstLove Missions | January 22, 2024 | Missions, Nepal

Our missionary trip to Nepal in early December was truly blessed of God and bore much needed fruit. We arrived in the city of Chitwan on Friday (Dec. 1) and checked into the Rhino Hotel where wild rhinoceroses and elephants daily visited the premises. On Saturday we were dispatched to preach at various local churches […]

2023 November Mission & Conference Report

By FirstLove Missions | November 6, 2023 | Missions, Nigeria, Updates

God has been gracious to us as we traveled and ministered alongside the leadership and members of Sovereign Grace Bible Church (SGBC) in Lagos, Nigeria this past week. The FirstLove team Joe Jacowitz, Austin Huggins, and Tom Smith arrived safely in Lagos on Tuesday morning, Oct 31. We were picked up by the brothers of the church and […]

Examining the New Birth – 2023 Conference Report

By Austin Huggins | April 24, 2023 | Missions, United States, Updates

This year’s conference addressed the doctrine of regeneration, commonly referred to as "The New Birth.” Biblical Christians for millennia have asked of their families, friends, neighbors, and perfect strangers the all searching question, “are you Born Again?” In our day, though the phrase, “born again Christian” has become common place, and not given a second thought. We fear that this phraseology, or the doctrine of regeneration, has been absentmindedly set aside so that it doesn’t have the weight and meaning it once did....

2019 February Mission Report

By FirstLove Missions | February 11, 2019 | Kenya

This Mission Report actually begins January 2018 (the previous year) during the G3 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. FirstLove Publications was attending G3 for the first time as an exhibitor where Mike Reid (pastor of Grace Fellowship Church in Davenport, Iowa), approached Pastor Joe and began a conversation about mission work occurring in areas within Kenya. […]