Embark on the incredible true story of the Virginia Colony & the Jamestown Settlement

Odyssey of Faith

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The Jamestown settlers arrived on the shores of Virginia Beach on three English ships, the Susan Constant, the Godspeed and the Discovery, led by Captain John Smith, Edward Maria Wingfield, and their chaplain Reverend Robert Hunt.

What You’ll Discover

Read the exciting story of the founding of America from the fresh perspective of primary sources!
Primary source quotes that even children can understand.
Can be read to your children, or used as part of your Virginia history curriculum.
For use in schools, home schools, churches, history camps and other educational settings.
A “Did you know section” section with 22 fascinating little-known facts.
A Coloring book, featuring 26 original line drawings, available for print.

ISBN-13: 978-0-9836436-2-3

Publisher: The Biblical Thinker

Publication Date: 2025

Edition: 2nd Edition

Reading Age: 8-18

Format: Softcover

Print Length: 80

Weight: 8.5 oz.

Product Dimension:

11” x 8.625” x .25”

About the Author:

Chris Evans has homeschooled her two children and also worked in promotion, publicity and history events at StoneBridge School. She has been politically active in public policy in conservative and social issues for 34 years. Chris has spent 25 years researching and studying Christian history specializing in the providential history of America and the Virginia Colony.

Personally, Chris Evans enjoys genealogy research, traveling, especially to historic sites, and walks along the beach with her husband, Jim.

She is currently available to lead tours to the First Landing site and the historic district specializing in tours to Jamestown.

Visit HisHistoryVirgina1607.com for these Additional Resources:

3D Flip-Book Teachers Guide & PDF download

Video Clips of Past Guided Tours

Photo Album of Jamestown, First Landing, and Henricus

Additional Reviews & Endorsements

Read this incredible article by Heather Hall

What Educators Are Saying

5.0

Based on 4 reviews

Martin Barlau

What a treasure. Odyssey of Faith has provided a beautiful link in my understanding of the history of our nation, and even of God’s plan to share His love with the world. What a handsome production.

My mind is awhirl with thoughts of how to help others, especially all those involved in Christian education, to become more aware and more appreciative of the truths revealed by this book. At the same time, I am embarrassed to realize how many students I led through the history of America without offering them, in my ignorance, a clue about God’s involvement in our first permanent colony.

What does this mean for me? As a recipient of the riches of God’s grace and blessing, and a beneficiary of the godly aims and goals of those first settlers, I am a part of this Odyssey of Faith, as are each of those students I was teaching. Our own odyssey of faith is a part of that begun by Martin Luther and the reformers, and taken up by those leaders in England in the 1600s, and those courageous commoners who climbed aboard those ships and headed for the new world.

What can I do to reach the “salvages” living in our nation today? Their numbers are growing once again, and their “arrows” are striking and hurting God’s family, the Christian Church. Odyssey of Faith is both armor and armament against the onslaughts of Satan’s tribe.

I’m not sure just yet where this will lead, but I hope to find a way to be of service to those who are leading today’s students in the Lutheran schools of our nation.

Thank you, most sincerely, for your gift, Chris and Max. May God continue His blessings upon you and all those engaged in the Savior’s mission, to “disciple all nations.”

John A. Eidsmoe

Our secular age tends to assume that our forefathers were as those of today. Accordingly, when they write history, they often distort the role of religion in history, or more often, they filter it out, leaving us to assume that religion just wasn’t very important to those who settled this country.

This is especially true of Jamestown, where even tour guides will tell sometimes us the Jamestown settlers had no interest in God. This leaves us with a distorted picture of how the Jamestown settlers thought, why they crossed the Atlantic, and what they did when they arrived. And it is possible to give the impression that Jamestown was purely secular without distorting a single fact but rather by telling the facts selectively. Sometimes the telling of history is shaped not by what is told but by what is left out.

But this leaves an incomplete picture of Jamestown. Laws and customs are shaped by moral values, and moral values are based on religion. What the Jamestown settlers believed about God and the Bible is therefore of utmost importance.

And that’s why Odyssey of Faith: The Colony of Virginia, Jamestown, and You, by Chris Evans, is a vital and timely contribution. Going back to original documents rather than just following modern sources, Evans gives us the story behind the story: the vision of Richard Hakluyt of Christian colonies in North America, the Charter of the Virginia Company signed by King James I which declares the purpose of the colony to be the conversion of the “salvages” to Christianity, the faithful ministry of Rev. Robert Hunt and Rev. Alexander Whittaker, the Christian character of Captain John Smith, the conversion of Pocahontas, and so much more.

Beautifully illustrated, Odyssey of Faith is directed toward children, but adults will learn much from reading it. With the help of the Teacher Guide, Odyssey will be a spiritually uplifting learning experience for you and your children.

John A. Eidsmoe, Colonel(MS), Mississippi State GuardSenior Counsel, Foundation for Moral LawPastor, Association of Free Lutheran Congregations

Jose L. González

“Providential history – like the grace that inspires it- is redemptive: refreshingly innocent, but eternally fecund. In a time when scorn for the noble and defilement of virtue abound, this little tome celebrates unabashedly the good. It will sow seeds of greatness in the young minds of tomorrow’s Virginians. Generations will be inspired by the bold zeal, resilient faith and providential provision of the first settlers, who brought the early seeds of Reformation to New World.”

“Odyssey of Faith elegantly mixes the adventure and the testimony that its title promises. It imparts eternal principles and surprises us with the “whizz” of flying arrows while teasing curious young minds with rich leading questions.”

Jose L. González, Stonebridge School parent, grandparent and Board member emeritus President of Semilla, a Latin American Christian Leadership Development Ministry

Peter & JoAnne O’ Halloran

This book masterfully describes the founding of our country in words and pictures. With emphasis on the true reason for this great work, it will dispel many erroneous ideas about the motivation for the Jamestown settlement. Text and illustrations quickly draw the reader into the story. It should be required reading for every student and parent!

Peter O’ Halloran, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, retired

JoAnne O’Halloran, mother and former teacher