In light of the official organizers’ approach to the commemoration, Vision Forum Ministries is sponsoring its own celebration, dubbed « The Jamestown Quadricentennial. » The ministry’s event will highlight the role Jamestown played in introducing Christian common law to North America, establishing the first experiment in representative republican government, and conducting America’s first Protestant Christian worship services and baptisms.

Doug Phillips, director of Vision Forum Ministries, says the Jamestown settlement was the primary tool for the founding of America and was « based on a charter called the Virginia Charter of 1606, which was directly based in the Great Commission. And America, he observes, »had been a nation under the control of individuals that were cannibals, that worshipped trees and rocks, that were spiritists.« However, Phillips observes, »with the Jamestown settlers, as imperfect as they were, came the gospel.« He feels organizers of the official Jamestown 2007 activities, in taking what he sees as a revisionist approach to the founding of the settlement, are robbing an entire generation of Americans of their history. »I mean, we’ve had celebrations, on every 50 years, of Jamestown — 1957, 1907. One out of every 29 Americans came to Jamestown to say ’Thank you’ for our history,« the Vision Forum Ministries spokesman points out. Even in 1857, he notes, »President John Tyler gave a three-hour message on the providence of God through Jamestown.« However, Phillips contends, »This is the first time in history where we’ve said we want to have a birthday party and then kill the parents and lament the birth." So, while official events marking the founding of the first English settlement in America take place in May, Vision Forum Ministries’ intends to celebrate Jamestown’s 400th anniversary by emphasizing the settlement’s significant contributions to American history, government, and society.