Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church history.

Tomorrow is the American holiday of Thanksgiving.

Now, different countries around the world celebrate Thanksgiving in different times.

But here in America, we celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth or the last Thursday

of the month of November. Now, I love Thanksgiving, and I'm sure you do too, and I'm sure

you have your own Thanksgiving traditions. At the top of my list is our Thanksgiving chapel

here at Reformation Bible College.

All the chapels are great here at RBC, and I look forward to each and every one of them,

but I especially look forward to that Thanksgiving chapel.

We gather together.

Some of our student leaders read psalms.

We sing hymns together, and then we have a very simple meal together, just celebrating God's

goodness and His kindness to us and all of the good things that we have to be grateful

for.

Well, on five minutes, we also love Thanksgiving, and over the years we have talked about

different Thanksgiving moments in church history. We could go all the way back to June 1564. That was the first Thanksgiving on what would come to be American soil. It was not up in New England. It was right here in Florida at Fort Caroline, right next to St. Augustine.

And there the Huguenot gathered together, read Psalms, sang Psalms, offered up prayers

of Thanksgiving, had a feast together, and celebrated a day of thanksgiving for God's

good hand of providence and the good things he has done in their lives. Well, we can go up to New England then,

December 11, 1621, there in Plymouth Colony and that first Thanksgiving in New England.

A decade later, Boston had its first Thanksgiving in February of 1631.

It had been a brutal winter and famine was looming on the horizon, and then into the port

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