GLC Leadership Team - Global Life Campaign

GLC Leadership Team.

The Global Life Campaign is an approved project of the New Horizons Foundation, Inc., and its 12-member Board of Directors has ultimate oversight of the GLC. New Horizons Foundation Board of Directors can be found at: https://newhorizonsfoundation.com/about/board-of-directors

The GLC also has a Board of Governors (BOG) to serve as a unified leadership team of the ministry, and provide wise counsel and accountability; it currently has three members. These leaders are listed below.

Thomas Jacobson - Founder

Thomas W. Jacobson is the founder and executive director of the Global Life Campaign (2011-present), and President of GLC Publications LLC (2018-present). He is the project director and co-author of the Abortion Worldwide Report: 1 Century, 100 Nations, 1 Billion Babies. The History, Policies and Sacred Accounting, and the Means to Restore Protection of Human Life (GLC Publications, 2018). He is also the author of Fire At The Founding: Christian Clergy Laid Essential Foundations for Liberty, Righteousness, Morality, and Just and Limited Government” (GLC Publications, 2020)

Prior to forming the GLC, Jacobson served as representative to the United Nations for Focus on the Family USA (2001 to 2010), and as senior policy analyst monitoring the United Nations for Freedom Alliance (1999 to 2001). Prior work included public policy, teaching, and U.S. Congressional staff. He earned a master's in Public Policy from Regent University, a bachelor’s in Psychology from George Fox College, and a diploma in Biblical Studies from Lutheran Bible Institute. Thomas is the father of two sons, Gabriel, who is married to Tess, and Seth. He enjoys Bible study, family and good friends, historical and policy research and analysis, the beauty in nature, and changing the world for the better.

Michael Jacobson - BOG Chairman

Michael D. Jacobson, DO MPH is a graduate of Seattle Pacific University (B.A. Chemistry), Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.), and Wright State University (Master of Public Health). Before retiring in 2019, Colonel Jacobson served in the U.S. Military as a flight surgeon, Chief of Medical Staff and as the inaugural Director for the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine’s Operational Graduate Medical Education (OGME) program. Dr. Jacobson currently serves as Medical Director to New Destiny Treatment Center and to Christian Healthcare Ministries, the nation’s largest private cost-sharing network, and is on faculty with Wright State University. He has authored two books and is board certified in family, addiction, aerospace, and occupational medicine. A resident of West Chester, Ohio, Dr. Jacobson has been married for 37 years to his wife Susie. They have three children and seven grandchildren.

Stan John - BOG member

Stanley R. John is the CEO & Founder of the J1721 Movement, LLC (2013-present), delivering collaboration support and consulting services that provide Mission Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Self-Sustainability to faith based missions seeking a genuine Global impact for the Gospel. Stan was formerly a founding member and teaching elder for HOPE Church; Senior Vice President for Global Ministry Development (2009-2013), Senior Vice President for Innovation and Strategy Development (2006-2008), and Group Vice President for Operations (2003-2005) at Focus on the Family (USA). He is the Board Chairman of Life Equip Global (Colorado Springs, CO), and was formerly the Board Chairman of Life Network (Colorado Springs), on the Board of Directors of Voice of the Martyrs (Bartlesville, OK), and provided strategy consulting and planning for the U.S. Homeschool National Alliance. Stan is a mentor and great friend to Thomas.

I Have A Dream

Thomas W. Jacobson, Founder & Executive Director, Global Life Campaign (2012-02-03)

I’ve never had a dream for my own life, but this is the dream in my heart.

I have a dream that the womb of every woman will be the safest place for a baby anywhere in the world, instead of the most dangerous place. I have a dream that the sanctity of human life, as created in the image of God, will be upheld everywhere by Christians, Jews, Muslims, and all peoples. I have a dream that abortion will end in every nation, and legal protection be restored for preborn children by every government. I have a dream that we will no longer engage in evasive debates and discussions to justify abortion and decide under what circumstances a baby may be ripped apart in the womb. I have a dream that we will cherish every life as a gift, whether perfect or imperfect, defective or deformed. I have a dream that girls and boys will be equally cherished, and that sex-select abortion will end. I have a dream that African American babies, and babies in Africa and developing nations, would no longer be the primary target of abortion efforts.

I have a dream that pastors and priests in every church, synagogue, and temple across our land will rise up with courage and meekness; and will, every year, faithfully teach their congregations the Biblical basis for the sanctity of human life, purity in relationships, and the sacredness of marriage. Further, my hope is that they will inspire their members to reach out with truth and compassion to every person who has been involved in an abortion – the men too – and with strong love to convince those who are considering abortion that God has a better way.

I have a dream that every girl and woman who aborted one or more of her children will not live one more day denying what she did, filled with remorse, guilt, and self-hatred; but will run to the loving, waiting arms of our Savior Jesus Christ, confess her sins, be set free, and live the rest of her life forgiven and free of shame. And further that she, as a humble, honorable vessel of God, will allow Him to take the most tragic event in her life, and through His wondrous grace, use it for good in her life and through her to bring a healing touch to many others.

William Wilberforce had a dream that the slave trade would be no more, and eventually it was so. Horatio R. Storer, M.D., LL.B., had a dream in the 1800s to protect mothers and save babies by convincing governors and legislators to criminalize abortion, and it was so. Martin Luther King, Jr., had a dream of respect and equality for African Americans that transformed a nation. I have a dream that abortion will be no more.