Pilgrim ThanksgivingThanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday dating back to the Pilgrim’s first feast after arriving in Plymouth MA. Read more about the history here. It is also a uniquely Christian celebration of God’s Providential supply of our needs.

Thanksgiving Day Proclamations

washingtonvalleyforgeThanksgiving Day Proclamation – 1777

“Tomorrow being the day set apart by the Honorable Congress for public Thanksgiving and Praise; and duty calling us devoutly to express our grateful acknowledgments to God for the manifold blessings he has granted us, the General… earnestly exhorts, all officers and soldiers, whose absence is not indispensably necessary, to attend with reverence the solemnities of the day.” —George Washington (December 17, 1777), Congressional Thanksgiving Day Proclamation

Thanksgiving Sermon: Text of sermon preached by the Rev. Thomas Baldwin of Boston in response to President George Washington’s 1795 Thanksgiving Proclamation.

Thanksgiving Day Proclamation- 1863: The text of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation.

Thanksgiving Day Proclamation- 1887: The text of President Grover Cleveland’s 1887 Thanksgiving Proclamation.

NormanRockwell Thanksgiving

Psalm 100

Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all you lands!
Serve the LORD with gladness;
Come before His presence with singing.
Know that the LORD, He is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
For the LORD is good;
His mercy is everlasting,
And His truth endures to all generations.