History & Legacy
A Force From The Beginning
Preaching had “effected a revolution in the hearts and minds of the people before the war commenced.”
American clergy were dubbed The Black Robed Regiment by the British government which designated them the primary instigator of ‘the Rebellion” (American Revolution).
One of America’s founding fathers, a patriot and leader of the American Revolution, and second President of the United States, John Adams said that preaching had “effected a revolution in the hearts and minds of the people before the war commenced.”
From the time that English settlers began arriving on our shores in the early Seventeenth Century, the clergy have played a decisive role in securing and sustaining civil and religious liberty in America.
- Rev. Robert Hunt initiated the Anglican Church in Virginia (United States); he first lifted his voice in public thanksgiving and prayer on April 29, 1607, when the settlers planted a cross at Cape Henry, which they named after the Prince of Wales.
- Puritan leader John Winthrop elected Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 12 times
- Johnathan Mayhew, Boston’s Congregationalist minister, who John Adams referred to as “Morning Gun of the Revolution,” whose 1750 sermon condemned unlimited submission to the arbitrary dictates of King Charles I
- Rev. Jonas Clark, Congregationalist minister of Lexington, MA, who helped Deacon John Parker train Lexington’s militia (the “Minutemen”), and many more.
Patriot pastors and Black Robe Regiment financial partners continue to bear responsibility for leading the resistance to arbitrary governance (Tyranny) and promoting God’s gift of liberty.
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Our mission is to help ensure that all Americans continue to enjoy the God-given liberties set forth in the Declaration of Independence, United States Constitution, and Bill of Rights, by equipping every pastor who joins us with training and resources needed to secure liberty.
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