We greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherence of so noble a Work, which may, by the Provience of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, propogating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and may in time bring the Infidels and Savages, living in those parts, to human Civility, and to a settled and quiet Government... 1606 Charter

Much has been said about the motivation for settlement at Jamestown. Herb Titus, fomer Dean of Regent Law School, explains that the express purpose for colonization was to fulfil the Great Commission. According to Titus: “So, the express purpose and the only one written in the Charter, was to establish colonies in the new world as a Christian evangelical witness to the native peoples.” The First Charter of Virginia: Seedbed for the Nation, The Forecast, Volume I, No. 14. April 15, 1994