This coming week will be the only opportunity for Americans - amidst a year-long series of events - to actually “celebrate” the 400th anniversary of the founding of America at the Jamestown, Va. settlement, because all of the official “commemorations” have determined the arrival of the Europeans actually was an “invasion.”

The actual “celebration” is being put on by a ministry organization, Vision Forum Ministries, whose president, Doug Phillips, has warned against the revisionism that is taking place in the nation’s history.

Actual celebrations were held at the 200th, 250th, 300th, and 350th birthdays of the settlement, but they now are being denigrated as inaccurate and incomplete by government-sponsored events, he said, even though the official Jamestown site managers have documented for WND that the primary goal of the trip that sent settlers to the New World in 1607 was to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ....

This year, the official events, instead of celebrating, “are telling us we need to mourn and lament the actions of our Christian forebears,” Phillips said. The New York Times called the events something to mark Jamestown, “a town which disappeared into the mud,” and the Virginia Gazette noted the nation is spending millions of dollars and “entirely too much energy” to mark events accomplished by “a bunch of British buffoons who knew nothing of what they were doing for the sake of Christianizing Indians.”

The official statements have called the founding of Jamestown a “holocaust” and a “lynching.”

However, “the truth is these imperfect but nonetheless Christian settlers came to a world dominated by ... warring tribes” under the influence of spiritualism, Phillips said.

“They brought with them the Gospel of peace, Jesus Christ, and a dominion vision for establishing a land of freedom,” Phillips said.

“Why did the settlers come? The answer is simple: They came because they were commissioned to do so under the premise of the Great Commission,” Phillips said.

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