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

Don Chapman‘s passion is for the Church, music and technology, and he blends all three into resource websites devoted to contemporary worship: Hymncharts.com and Worshipflow.com. He’s the editor of the weekly Worshipideas.com newsletter that’s read by over 30,000 worship leaders across the world.