Compassionately Surrounding the Most Vulnerable
We’re on a mission to globally make disciples of Jesus among those most vulnerable, breaking down barriers to the gospel and offering wholistic care we all need to thrive.
A Global Mission
First Love International exists to compassionately surround the most vulnerable people (our MVPs) with wholistic, Jesus-saturated love. We long to see our MVPs thrive.
Hope for the Vulnerable
Who We're Called to Love
We serve some of the most exploited people in the world. There are no quick fixes. No easy formulas. But with you, we can carefully come alongside them, so they can experience true healing.
Where’s The Love?
While we are narrowly focused on loving our MVPs (most vulnerable people), we are intentionally not prescriptive as to where or "who." Our singular desire is to see the most vulnerable become disciples of Jesus all over the world.
Philippines
There are people with limited access to the Gospel due to poverty, trafficking, disability, and / or ethnicity, and we're on a mission to change that.
Through partnerships with Faith Academy, Project Pag-Asa, Masa Ati School, Asian Theological School, Banaba House, Ina-Inakay Ministries, Bethel International School, Waray Bible Translation, Tacloban Community Church, and The Butterfly Project. First Love also operates a K-8 school in Boracay.
Philippines
First Love Market partners work with those at-risk of sexual exploitation due to poverty. They provide education, job skill training, discipleship, and community development. Purchases from these artisans offers ethical work so families can stay in tact, pursue education, and begin to break the cycles of poverty.
Cambodia
First Love Market partners are dedicated to the prevention, rescue, restoration, transformation, and rehabilitation of vulnerable and exploited women, children, and men. They provide adults vocational training in sewing and community development.
Myanmar
First Love Market partners work with people who have been sex trafficked. Wholistically caring for their physical, emotional, spiritual, economic, and social well-being.
Thailand
Our First Love Market partner provides dignified work to at-risk and low-income individuals. Artisans are able to open a joint savings account where our partner matches their savings to a certain amount. They also provide Bible education, training in the areas of leadership, mental health, agriculture, and business, peer counseling, and offer support to local churches.
Ukraine
Where's the Love: Near the front lines of the war with Russia and throughout the country that has been ravished by war. First Love has local partnerships with Father's House, Safe Haven Transition Home, and Next Generation School, surrounding children, the elderly, widows and communities with Jesus-satured love. They provide local outreach/relief work, foster homes, front line support for soldiers and help meet basic needs in their communities.
Kenya
First Love operates children's homes for orphaned and at-risk children/youth, providing a safe, loving environment, meals, education, and job skill training.
Kenya
First Love Market partners are working to provide dignified work to vulnerable women, including mothers of children with special needs. Children receive special education schooling and needed therapies. Maternity homes overseen by local widows provide young women a loving place to learn how to care for themselves, their children, and receive daily discipleship and job skill training.
Uganda
First Love Market partners work with widows and abandoned women to provide spiritual support and craft training to make handcrafted items sold around the world. Partners invest dollars back into the community to provide jobs, fight poverty, encourage sustainability, and keep vulnerable children with their families.
South Asia
First Love partners with a children's home and seminary, providing basic needs and loving care to very vulnerable children and equipping college students in their pursuit of ministry as the next generation of leaders in a culture that is not embracing of Christianity.
Middle East
First Love partners with a ministry providing wholistic care for people with disabilities and their families - with a vision to see inclusivity embraced throughout the country! One key component to this model is an inclusive camp for children with severe or multiple disabilities. It’s the only one of its kind in the country!
Haiti
First Love Market partners focus on breaking the cycles of poverty and fight against the orphan and child slavery crisis. Empowering artisans and their communities through selling handcrafted items for a livable wage and enabling children to remain in school through the dignity of their parents' work.
The Himalayas
First Love has 6 children's homes for children who are either in the process of being trafficked, in danger of becoming trafficked, or are children of prostitutes. We also have 3 college hostels, ministries to widows and seniors, kids’ clubs, and provide relief work, church planting, evangelism, and discipleship. There are many children in the areas we serve that have disabilities. They are treated as outcasts and need a loving, supportive environment, so we are in the exploring stages of adding this type of ministry.
The Himalayas
First Love Market partners focus on preventing women and children from being lured into human trafficking. Providing life skills classes, vocational training, education, Bible studies, detox, and Christian counseling. Other partners work with artisans and proceeds are invested back into the communities to provide jobs, fight poverty, encourage sustainability, and help keep vulnerable children with their families and out of orphanages.
Taiwan
First Love partners with a local pregnancy support center to lovingly surround women who have unexpected pregnancies with support, information, or recovery after an abortion. They also provide a safe place to stay and heal after their child's adoption or to help transition new single mothers during their first year of parenting.
United States
First Love's U.S. work includes a traveling international theology teacher and Christian publishing in the Philippines through our partner ministries, as well as our U.S. base of operations and the First Love Market, where artisan handcrafted items are available to purchase to provide economic empowerment to the most vulnerable.
United States
First Love Market partners work with women fleeing homelessness, domestic abuse, or sex trafficking and mothers in crisis. Learning work-sustaining skills to support themselves and their families and offered a variety of discipleship and educational programs, including a developmental preschool.
South Korea
First Love partners with church planters in Seoul. The ministry focus is to reach the next generation of South Koreans.
Colombia
First Love partners with church planters and evangelists in Santa Marta and in Bogota. Their goal is to share the Gospel with those in low-income neighborhoods where there are great physical and spiritual needs and not much Christian presence. Also, in Santa Marta, the focus is to equip children and teens for evangelism.
Peru
First Love Market partners work with local artisans to create felt ornaments. All proceeds get invested back into the communities to provide jobs, fight poverty, encourage sustainability, and help keep vulnerable children with their families and out of orphanages.
The Philippines
Cambodia
Myanmar
Thailand
Ukraine
Kenya
Uganda
South Asia
Middle East
Haiti
The Himalayas
Taiwan
United States
Colombia
Peru
South Korea
Insights & Stories
We love sharing stories of impact and insights from our frontline team members and global partners. Stay up to date on God's global Kingdom work and how you can get involved.
*Amy’s Hope-Filled Future
Like many of the most vulnerable First Love works with, *Amy is gradually finding her way back to stability and joy through wholistic care that is saturated in Jesus’ love!
NEW Location and Global Partner
The First Love family is expanding! NEW Disability Initiative with a new global partner!
A New Beginning: *Arthur and *Sam’s Journey to Family
The transformation in *Arthur and *Sam’s lives has been nothing short of remarkable. Just a few weeks ago, they were living in a state run orphanage…
