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First Love Center (FLC) is a Pentecostal Christian church founded in 2012 by Dag Heward-Mills with headquarters in Accra, Ghana. It is considered to be one of the leading charismatic churches in Ghana, and has over 3000 branches in many other countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, Australia, the Middle East and the Americans.

History
First Love Church is a domination of churches spanning from the United Dominations Originating from the Lighthouse Group of Churches and was founded by Bishop Dag Heward-Mills in 2012. The First Love Church started from a small chapel on the University of Ghana, Legon Campus but with help from the Holy Spirit, what started as a gathering of just a few students grew, now with branches in 36 countries across Africa, Europe, Australia and The Americas[1].

Being instructed by the Lord, Bishop Dag handed over the active preaching in his other churches (including The Qodesh) to his associate pastors and followed the voice of God. The Lord instructed Bishop Dag to “go back to his first love”, and Bishop Dag immediately took a radical decision to hand over the large denomination he had founded and move to a university campus to pastor young people and establish what is now the First Love Church, which he currently pastors today[2].

From starting in a small chapel on campus, God has increased First Love Church to one of the largest churches in Ghana, with over 10,000 members[3]. Thousands of young people gather at the services headquartered in East Legon, Accra, Ghana. Bishop Dag sticks to authentic preaching based on the biblical principle and requirement for every Christian, soul winning and winning the lost to Jesus.

First Love Churches can be found in several locations all around the world, including in 28 locations in Ghana, more than 30 branches in the United Kingdom, and stretches across Europe, USA, Canada, Africa and many more.[4]

Statistics
The First Love Church is situated as of the 16th July 2020 in thirty-nine countries and cited below.

Leadership
The First Love Church was founded by Dag Heward-Mills who also founded the Lighthouse Chapel International church in 1987. The Lighthouse Chapel International derived from Dag's strong conviction that he had been called by God and anointed to teach the Word of God, and thus started teaching and pastoring in a classroom in Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital during this medical degree. As time passed and the attendance of his church grew in number, the small classroom church moved to the Korle-Gonne area, which is now a Cathredral amongst many others built by Dag Heward-Mills.

From this humble beginning arose The Qodesh and First Love Church which are a part of the United Denomination (UD) which forms the complete churches under the leadership of Dag Heward-Mills. The leadership of Dag Heward-Mills includes the inspiring and training of his members to become missionaries, pastors and workers in the house of God. As part of his leadership he hs created books including The Art of Leadership which internationally guides members how to lead using the Word of God. the book collection used to train and lead his members are called the Makarios 60 which is a collection of sixty book

Further in this leadership is the holding of conferences and camps meetings, which have been said to transform ordinary christians into ministers of the gospel.

Conferences
Best recognised in the First Love Center is the conferences that take place. This includes the Pastor's conferences, Give Thyself Wholly conference, Healing Jesus Campaign, Camps and the Iron sharpheneth Iron campaigns

First Love Music
The AidaLive Project is a project founded by Dag Heward-Mills with his solost Aida and pianost Daniel Ayittah. Dag Heward-Mills composes song lyrics in which Aida and Daniel intergrate these words into pre-exsiting songs. The gospel cover uses scriptural reference to compose and develop AidaLive. From AidaLive was built the First Love Music which is similar to the Live project but is sang by other solosts in First Love Center.

The First Love music is split into seven music collections: Jazzbery, Crimson, Misty Rose, Mulberry, Periwinkle, Scarlet and Sunglow. Within this christian collection, there are a variety of genres including gospel music, contemporary christian music and spiritual music. With this combination the First Love Music is unique, set apart christian music found on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.

Beliefs and Missions
The Pentecostal beliefs a of First Love Church is 'Soul Winning' with a saying of Winning the lost at any cost, Loving God loving others and Going All Out For God.

Vision

 * Churches in 190 Nations
 * 2000 Apostles
 * 25,000 churches
 * 2000 church buildings
 * 2,000,000 members