Page 71 - Pilgrims in Georgia

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Why is this important?

1. The Trustees sought to supply for the religious needs of the colonist with pastors, church property,

and land to be used to provide for both.
2. The Trustees with intent, sought and brought persecuted, and disenfranchised Protestant peoples to
the Georgia Colony.
3. Many of the colonists suffered persecution, loss of property, poverty, hardship, sacrifice, disease, and
death on their pilgrimage from their former homes to settle their new homes in Georgia, they were
the Providential recipients of opportunity and compassion not of entitlement and privilege. They were
true Pilgrims.
4. Trustees brough a mix of different Protestant groups from around Europe and England not just the

official church of England in an ecumenically co-operative endeavor, one of the first in America and a
signal of it’s future.
5. The evangelical and compassionate nature of the efforts of the trustees, from the inception to the
settling of the colony should be acknowledged as manifest history when the story of Georgia is told.
6. The presence of theses colonist contributed to the spiritual heart of the state of Georgia and their
progeny are with still us today. Their endeavors to build and protect their homes in a new land helped
shape the futures of both Georgia and the United States
7. The intertwined threads of international religious conflict, evangelical mission and compassion,
business investment, exploration, and national defense, display the supernal nature of the Providence
of God in human history and in the history of the founding of America.
8. Their story is “the story of how God worked through many Christian people from many backgrounds
and used many diverse circumstances to found a colony which though not necessarily “Christian” by

specific governmental decree, was Christian in its vital Spirit, as demonstrated through the
professions and lives of many of its founders and colonist. A theme that was repeated many times in
the founding of the other colonies that came to be the United States.”