John Robinson is known as the pastor of the pilgrims because he was the pastor of the ‘pilgrim fathers’ before they set out on the Mayflower. He was a significant part of The Scrooby Covenant of 1606 which rejected a worldly and coercive system of social and religious organizations in favor of a covenant between God and man entered by individuals binding themselves together before God through a solemn covenant which they freely acknowledged on behalf of themselves, their families, and their heirs. It was his congregation that joined with others who had traveled to the new world to create America’s first great covenant, The Mayflower Compact. The Robinson/Scrooby Compact of 1606 was the model for The Mayflower compact of 1620, which later was a model for the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Although Robinson died before he made it to the new world, we honor him for his powerful impact over the Spiritual foundations of this great nation.