Earliest American Church

Published on: Oct 25, 2009Updated on: Jan 3, 2019

Last weekend I was in Jamestown (the first permanent English settlement) and saw a huge building – a church! The settlers were instructed to initially construct 3 public buildings inside the fort: a storehouse, a guardhouse and a church, so religion was very important to these people.

I took my new Kodak Zi8 mini HD video recorder with me just in case I saw something interesting. I was with CBN News producer Tracy Winborn – she shot my video introduction as well as helped produce the clip. It even ended up on CBN News last week.

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Don Chapman

A prolific arranger and songwriter, Don has had songs published by Word, Integrity Music, G3worship and Worship Today, and has orchestrated music for Christian artists Chris Sligh and Jeremy Camp. He’s been featured on the 700 Club, has been quoted in USAToday and is a guest lecturer at Liberty University.