Jim Jacobson, President and Founder of Christian Freedom International, has assisted the persecuted church in many restricted countries around the world. He has faced personal danger to deliver Bibles to underground churches in China, care packs to families in the brickyards of Pakistan, and medical aid to refugees in the war zones of Burma.
Mr. Jacobson has testified and conducted briefings before Congress, the White House and the State Department on behalf of Christians who are persecuted for their faith each year.
At the invitation of First Lady Laura Bush, Mr. Jacobson participated in The Dialogue on Burma, a roundtable discussion conducted during the September 2006 U.N. General Assembly that allowed activists and government officials to speak openly about the severe humanitarian crisis that has plagued Burma for decades.
Before founding CFI, Mr. Jacobson served as a policy analyst in the Reagan White House, a political appointee in the George Herbert Walker Bush administration, and was a senior legislative assistant in the U.S. Senate. He is also Vice-President and Co-Founder of the National Right to Read Foundation, an organization dedicated to phonics-based reading instruction in elementary schools throughout America.
Mr. Jacobson has also been a frequent guest on radio talk shows and has appeared on numerous television programs, including 60 Minutes, Fox News, and The 700 Club.
Mr. Jacobson is a graduate of the University of Michigan. He and his wife Karen have four children and have been married for more than 20 years.
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