Faith and Freedom Mini-Tours
When we walk in the footsteps of our fathers, we gain context for who we are as a people and hope for the next generation. To further this goal, the Jamestown Quadricentennial will host Mini-Faith and Freedom Tours each day to some of America’s oldest and most important sites, including the Original Jamestown Settlement, Colonial Williamsburg, and the Yorktown Battlefield — the scene of the final defeat of the British in the American War for Independence. Space is limited. Each tour will run approximately two hours. Attendance will be limited on a pre-registration basis.
Should you choose to attend any of the Jamestown walking-tours, please note that they are held on historic Jamestown Island. Each car driving out to the island to meet for the tour should be prepared to pay the National Park Service $10 per person ages 16 and older (children 15 and under are free). Your National Park Service pass is then valid for seven days of free access to Jamestown and to the Yorktown Visitor’s Center, should you desire to spend time visiting there.
Jamestown Tour with Gary DeMar
Christianity is written on every page of America’s amazing history. Join Gary DeMar as he presents well-documented facts which will change your perspective about what it means to be a Christian in America. He will explore the Christian character of colonial charters, which laid the basis for Jamestown, Plymouth, state constitutions, and the US Constitution. If you are tired of the revisionism of the politically correct crowd trying to white wash our Christian history you will not want to miss this tour with Gary DeMar.
Monday, June 11 at 1:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)Tuesday, June 12 at 9:00 a.m. (Registration Closed)Thursday, June 14 at 9:00 a.m. (Registration Closed)
Jamestown Tour with Col. John Eidsmoe
Jamestown represents the first transplant of the common law to America, join Col. Eidsmoe for a four-part presentation and overview of the common law’s development and arrival at Jamestown. Col. Eidsmoe will trace it’s Celtic Roots; Its Anglo-Saxon Foundations; Its Norman Development; and Its Virginia Fruition. The common law laid the basis upon which our founding fathers built our system of government. In fact, it is twice mentioned by direct reference in the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. On this tour you will see the markers on Jamestown Island that our ancestors have laid commemorating the common law foundations of the Magna Charta and the Common Law.
Wednesday, June 13 at 2:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)Thursday, June 14 at 2:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)
Jamestown Tour with Dan Ford
The English principles of Christian Dominion varied greatly from the model of the Spanish who had preceded them in settling America. What was behind the English ideas of taking dominion? How did those ideas of family, law, and government vary from those who had come to America before them. Which model proved successful, and which ultimately led to the guarantees of liberty that Americans have enjoyed ever since? We will endeavor to draw out those precepts which laid the foundation of our nation in order to rediscover the grandeur of our providential God, and redirect America’s glory back to His Name.
Thursday, June 14 at 2:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)
Jamestown Tour with Dr. Marshall Foster
On this exciting tour, Marshall Foster will trace the Jamestown Settlement from its Christian origins in 1607, including the remarkable life of Capt. John Smith, the establishment of the Christian Common law, the experiment in Republican government, the first Christian baptism and marriage, and the glorious Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676, which should rightly be called America’s first War of Independence. He will explain the historical and spiritual significance of the Jamestown Colony. This is one tour you will not want to miss!
Monday, June 11 at 1:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)Tuesday, June 12 at 9:00 a.m. (Registration Closed)Wednesday, June 13 at 9:00 a.m. (Registration Closed)
Jamestown Tour with Dr. Paul Jehle
Join Dr. Paul Jehle as he traces the lives of Captain John Smith, William Bradford, and King James I, and how the Lord would providentially use each one of them for his own glory in the advancement of his kingdom. You will learn about the education, character, and preparation that each one of these men underwent which would eventually lead to John Smith and William Bradford establishing colonies in the New World with charters signed by King James I. This will be a fast paced and inspiring tour that will help Americans understand the providential hand of God in developing this nation.
Tuesday, June 12 at 2:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)Wednesday, June 13 at 2:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)Thursday, June 14 at 9:00 a.m. (Registration Closed)
Jamestown Tour with Stephen McDowell
Join veteran tour guide Stephen McDowell for a wonderful overview of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America. Stephen will lay out the four providential reasons according to Richard Hakluyt why the Jamestown settlement was so important for America:
- Enlarge the glory of the Gospel — that is, be a nation that produces the fruit of obedience to God’s truth (which is liberty, justice, prosperity, charity, virtue, and knowledge) and then spread that truth throughout the world.
- Be a place of refuge and freedom for the persecuted from many nations.
- Be an example of liberty — all kinds of liberty: personal, religious, civil, economic, political.
- Propagate the Gospel to the lost.
You won’t want to miss this important tour which lays out the founding vision for Jamestown.
Monday, June 11 at 1:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)Tuesday, June 12 at 2:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)
Jamestown Tour with Dr. Joe Morecraft
Not only is Dr. Joe Morecraft one of the great church historians of our day, but he is one of this generations most capable and passionate communicators of the providence of God in American history. Those attending Dr. Morecraft’s Faith and Freedom Mini Tour on the Island of Jamestown will be treated to a passionate presentation on the character of John Smith, insights into the work of God in the life of America’s first permanent colonial community, and the meaning of the coming of Christianity and Christian law to North America.
Thursday, June 14 at 12:30 p.m. (Registration Closed)
Williamsburg Mini-Tours
Williamsburg Tour with Col. John Eidsmoe
Walk with Col. John Eidsmoe through historic Colonial Williamsburg to the great locations where the epic events of the eighteenth century took place. Visit the state capital, the colonial courthouse and the lawn of the governor’s palace where you can learn the true story of America’s path to liberty. Col. Eidsmoe will explain the legal and theological issue on the hearts of the patriots of 1776, and the role they played in the formation of the American republic and the drafting of the United States constitution.
Williamsburg Tour with Gary DeMar
Gary DeMar is one of the great Christian apologists of our time period. He understands the necessity of answering controversy with a presuppositionally biblical apologetic. Now he takes this skill to Williamsburg for a Faith and Freedom Tour which will expose you to some of the most controversial issues of the Colonial time period. He will help you to understand the key apologetic controversies during the years leading up to the War for Independence, and he will explain why many of those to you why the issues were important to the Americans of that generation, how that addressed the issues, and will explain why they remain important to this present generation.
Monday, June 11 at 1:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)
Williamsburg Tour with Dan Ford
The way that Britain came to view her American plantations sharply differed from the way the colonists viewed themselves. On one hand, the British administration across the Atlantic was striving to reign in a people whom they viewed as far too independent. On the other, Americans had no intention of yielding up the liberties that their forefathers had passed along to them, and which were their rightful responsibility to hold secure. Although differences had the been simmering for some time, they came to full-boil, in among other places, colonial Williamsburg in the 1770s. That exiting great drama which forged our nation will be the subject of our Williamsburg tour.
Monday, June 11 at 1:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)Tuesday, June 12 at 9:00 a.m. (Registration Closed)Wednesday, June 13 at 9:00 a.m. (Registration Closed)Thursday, June 14 at 9:00 a.m. (Registration Closed)
Williamsburg Tour with Dr. Marshall Foster
Known as “The Trumpet of the Revolution,” Patrick Henry is one of the most inspiring of all the American Patriots. The author of those famous words, “I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” Patrick Henry was born and raised in Virginia, was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and three-time Governor of Virginia, and lived not far from colonial Williamsburg. Dr. Marshall Foster will delight his audience with the history and impact of America’s greatest orator on a traveling lecture through colonial Williamsburg, pointing out landmarks influential to Mr. Henry’s life.
Wednesday, June 13 at 2:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)Thursday, June 14 at 2:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)
Williamsburg Tour with Dr. Paul Jehle
Author, pastor, historian, and one of America’s leading defenders of Christian providential history, Dr. Paul Jehle brings his passion for providence to the shores of Jamestown. Be prepared to take lots of notes. Paul will pack hours of thrilling history stories into this brief two hour tour and leave you breathless, but joyful to see the remarkable hand of God in the founding of America.
Monday, June 11 at 1:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)
Williamsburg Tour with Dr. Joe Morecraft
Dr. Joe Morecraft is probably the most capable church historian we have met. One of his sub-specialties is the history of the work of the gospel in America, and the role of the patriot pulpit in producing the victory that sprung forth from the heroism of 1776. In this tour Dr. Morecraft will take you to some of the key sites in Williamsburg where preachers and statesmen of the eighteenth century articulated the cause of liberty. He will introduce you to the key themes and theologies behind the war for American independence He will answer the question: was it biblically justified to take up arms against King George?
Wednesday, June 13 at 2:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)
Yorktown Mini-Tours
Yorktown Tour with Bill Potter
On October 19, 1781, the British army commanded by General Charles Lord Cornwallis was forced to surrender to General Washington’s combined American and French army. Upon surrender the British played the tune — “The World Turned Upside Down.” And it was. The victory secured independence for the United States and significantly changed the course of world history. Join veteran historian Bill Potter for an unforgettable tour de force overview of the battle and victory at Yorktown. You will hear about twenty-four year old Alexander Hamilton and the “son” of George Washington — Marquis de Lafayette. You will learn about the different engagements and military maneuvers the British and American armies used at Yorktown.
Monday, June 11 at 1:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)Tuesday, June 12 at 9:00 a.m. (Registration Closed)Tuesday, June 12 at 2:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)Wednesday, June 13 at 2:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)Thursday, June 14 at 9:00 a.m. (Registration Closed)
Yorktown Tour with Dan Ford
The momentous Yorktown victory in 1781 forever changed the way in which Great Britain dealt with the United States. That pivotal point in time had a radical effect upon the British policy of conducting its American war and in settling its peace. The years which followed shaped a new America, and in many ways helped shape a new Britannia and the rest of the world. In our Yorktown tour, we will use the decisive days of that marvelous American victory as the pivotal backdrop for so much of subsequent history.
Tuesday, June 12 at 2:00 p.m. (Registration Closed)