First Love: A Historic Gathering of Jesus Music Pioneers is a 2004 concert film and documentary that looks back into theJesus Music of the 1970s. In 1997, a group of Jesus Music pioneers gathered in southern California for three days of music and fellowship.[1] The event was both recorded and filmed, and was released in a 2-CD/2-DVD set simply titledFirst Love: A Historic Gathering of Jesus Music Pioneers. It was compiled and edited by the spouses of two of the artists who appear in the documentary: Dan Collins (husband ofJamie Owens-Collins) and Steve Greisen (husband ofNelly Greisen (2nd Chapter of Acts)) produced the project. The CD contains each of the 31 songs that were performed during the gathering, and the DVDs shows the live performances of the songs, interviews with the individual performers and groups, interviews with others who were involved in the roots of Jesus Music, and rare pictures and footage of the artists from the 1970s.[2] Other artists who were interviewed for the documentary include pastorChuck Smith,Pat Boone,Phil Keaggy, andMichael Omartian, among others.[3]
