Tag: Cape Henry

Beginnings

On this day in 1607, English colonists made landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. The crew didn’t actually come ashore until April 29, but when the did, the Reverend Robert Hunt offered this prayer: We do hereby dedicate this Land, and ourselves, to reach the People within these shores with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and …

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365 Things I Believe: His Holy Temple

The British settlers who founded Jamestown arrived at Cape Henry, Virginia on April 26, 1607. They placed a rough hewn cross into the ground and their spiritual leader, Reverend Robert Hunt gathered the setters and offered this invocation. “The Lord is in His Holy Temple; Let all the earth keep silence before Him.” Habakkuk 2:20. …

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