What follows is a listing of manuscript collections, books, and other
resources at the PCA Historical Center. We do not operate as a lending library,
but will be happy to assist in locating various works, where possible.

Sermon video clips :
"Feminine Faithfulness"

Manuscript Collections at the PCA Historical Center

WORKS BY, FOR, OR ABOUT WOMEN IN THE FOLLOWING CONTEXTS:
The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARPC)

Jones, Douglas O., The Ten Commandments. A Study Resource. Rock Hill, SC: Women's Synodical Union of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, n.d. Pb, 56 p.; 28 cm. Accession #014a055026

The Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC)

Clawson, Patricia E. and Diane L. Olinger, Choosing the Good Portion: Women of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) :
[Links embedded in the names below point to biographical information about that author;
title links point to our online public access catalog & provide further details on that entry.]

Belcher, Anita Carmen Anderson [1929-2020], Mountain Echoes: Collected Stories & Interviews. (2022)
Cogdill, Melanie, Beyond the Roles: A Biblical Foundation for Women and Ministry.
DuBose, Sara Ann ("Candy"), Conquering Anxiety.(1989)
Franklin, Patricia Muhlig, Leader's Guide for A Sure and Firm Foundation. (circa 1984-1992)
Haack, Margie, The Exact Place: A Memoir. (2012)
[See also Margie's newsletters, Notes from Toad Hall, 1991-2014 & Letters from The House Between (2014-2020)], collections of which are preserved at the PCA Historical Center.
Hunt, Susan
• By Design. God's Distinctive Calling For Women. (1994)
• Spiritual Mothering. The Titus 2 Model For Women Mentoring Women. (1992)
Ivill, Sarah, The Covenantal Life: Appreciating the Beauty of Theology and Community.
Jakes, Sue and Priscilla Stewart, Heart of the Home Ministries. A Ministry of Encouragement, Teaching, Bible Study, And Practical Helps for Moms. (1993)
Kraemer, Sharon Celeste, Public relations practitioner involvement in environmental monitoring research as a predictor of involvement in corporate planning. (Dissertation, 1981)
Langberg, Diane, Suffering and the Heart of God. How Trauma Destroys and Christ Restores.
Muhlig, Mary Anne Ross [1933-2012], A Sure and Firm Foundation.(circa 1984-1992)
Nielson, Kathleen Buswell
• Ecclesiastes.
• Isaiah: The Lord Saves. Living Word Bible Studies (2011).
• John: That You May Believe. Living Word Bible Studies (2010).
• 1 & 2 Thessalonians.
• Women & God : Hard Questions. Beautiful Truth. (2018)
Patterson, Jeanne Taber[1923-2009]
• A Woman Looks at the Confession of Faith. An Introductory Study, Part 1. (circa 1975-1980)
• A Woman Looks at the Confession of Faith. An Introductory Study, Part 2. (circa 1975-1980)
• Study Guide on 1st Peter.(ca. 1975)
• Today's Woman Looks at Philippians. (1982)
Poynor, Alice
•Silence, God Working. (n.d.)
• —Works by Alice Poynor not yet in our collection : (1.) From the Campus to the World : Stories from the first fifty years of Student Foreign Missions Fellowship (1986); (2.) Spice Islands Mystery (1989); (3.) East into Yesterday (1990); (4.) East of the Misty Mountains (1991); (5.) East to the Shifting Sands (1992); (6.) Qualities of a Mission Organization most valued by potential career missionaries (1993); (7.) The Coming Day : a true Christmas story from China (2011).
Risher, Diana [1935-2020]
• but God. Words of Encouragement.(circa 2008)
Rodriguez, Paula, Communion with our God. Studies in the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Vol. 3, Questions 82-107
Settle, Georgia Brown [1935-2010]
• Seasons of Change, Seasons of Grace. (1988)
• Women in the Bible. (1978)
Settle, Georgia Brown & Paul Gunter
• To God All Praise and Glory: Celebrating the past, claiming the future, the Presbyterian Church in America. (1998)
Shaw, Jean Andreae
• Greater Love: A Woman's Workshop On Friendship. (1983)
• The Better Half of Life : Meditations from Ecclesiastes. (1983)
Spencer, Emalyn [1920-2015]
• A Woman that Feareth the Lord. A Study of Godly Womanhood from Proverbs 31:10-31. (1982)
—• in German translation, Sie lacht des kűnftigen Tages. Ein Bibelstudium űber das Frauenbild nach den Sprűchen, Kapitel 31, Vers 10-31. (1986)
• The Incredible Round Trip. According to Luke. (1987). Also present, Teacher's Guide for this title.
• Too Wonderful for Me. Studies from Job. (1983)
• With My Whole Heart. (1979).
Sherman, Amy L., Restorers of Hope: Reaching the poor in your community with church-based minnistries that work.
Tada, Joni Eareckson
• Heaven : Your Real Home. (1995)
Taylor, Lee, Behind the Scrim: Studies in Faith and Work.(1991)
Tippets, Kara Lynne Thewlies [1976-2015]
• The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard.(2014)
• Just Show Up: The Dance of Walking Through Suffering Together. (2015)
• And It Was Beautiful: Celebrating Life in the Midst of the Long Good-bye.(2016)
Wilkin, Jen, God of Covenant: A Study of Genesis 12-50.

PCA Women's Ministry Resource Quarterly, 1st Quarter 2009 [we have a lot more of these issues, and this prompts recognition of the need to work on arrangement & description of that and related WIC collections]. Accession #009a010000.

The Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (PCUS; aka Southern Presbyterian Church)

Brown, Mrs. J.A., History of Wilmington Presbyterial Auxiliary, 1888-1922.
Cathcart, Ellenor Lee, Yesteryears. The Heritage and History of The First Presbyterian Church, Anderson, South Carolina. Sesquicentennial, 1837-1987.
Cobbs, Aleathea Thompson [1860-1953], Presbyterian Women of the Synod of Alabama, U.S.
Glasgow, Samuel McPheeters [1883-1963], Studies in the Epistles of John, for use in Auxiliary-promoted Bible Classes of the Presbyterian Church, U.S. Atlanta, GA: Committee on Woman's Work, Presbyterian Church, U.S., 1940. Pb, 47 p.; 19 cm. Accession #005a170000.
Howell, Gertrude Elizabeth Jenkins [1867-1959], The Woman's Auxiliary of the Synod of North Carolina, 1912-1937.
Howell, Gertrude Jenkins [1867-1959], and others, History of the Women of the Church, Synod of North Carolina, Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1912-1962.
Gist, Margaret Adams [1865-1949], Presbyterian Women of South Carolina.
Irvine, Mary B. and Alice L. Eastwood, Pioneer Women of the Presbyterian Church, United States.
McGaughey, Janie W., Studies in the Psalms. Prepared by The Committee on Woman's Work for the Women's Auxiliary of the Presbyterian Church, U.S. Atlanta, GA: Committee on Woman's Work, Presbyterian Church, U.S., 1933. Pb, 64 p.; 23 cm.  Prepared by Janie W. McGaughey, Mrs. S.H. Accession #021a062064. 
Ryburn, Mrs. White M.; Mrs. Ellen S. Bowen; Mrs. J.W. Walker, Women of Old Abingdon.
Winsborough, Hallie Paxson [1865-1940], Yesteryears (Atlanta, GA: Committee on Women?s Work, Presbyterian Church, U.S., 1937), hb, 224pp.; 19 cm.
Winsborough, Hallie Paxson [1865-1940] and Sarah Lee Vinson Timmons [1889-1976], Glorious Living: Informal Sketches of Seven Women Missionaries of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.

Presbyterian Activities in Louisiana; A Synopsis for Use as a Study Book by Auxiliaries, Sunday Schools, Young People's Societies, and others. Prepared and Published by the Synod of Louisiana of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. New Orleans, LA: Louisiana Synod's Board of Education, 1927.

The Faith We Live By : Twelve Meditations on The Faith That Works, for Personal Reading and for use in guiding Group Worship. Atlanta, GA: Board of Women?s Work, Presbyterian Church in the United States, n.d. Accession #012a110000

Minutes of the Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Women of the Church, Synod of Missouri, Presbyterian Church in the United States. South Presbyterian Church, Kansas City, MO, September 25 and 26, 1963. Accession #015a052000

The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA, 1789-1958)

Corner, Julia, Sabbath Day Readings, or Children's Own Sabbath Book. Revised by the Committee of Publication. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, ca. 1855. Hb, 208 p.

Dana, Daniel [1771-1859], Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women, who were ornaments to their sex?blessings to their families?and edifying examples to the church and world. Abridged from the large work of Dr. Gibbons, London.  Newburyport: Printed for the Subscribers by Angier March, 1803. Leather, vi, [3], 10-396 p.; 18 cm. Accession #014a043000.

Fergus, Julia, Historical Sketch of the Women's Synodical Society for Missions in Montana, Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. 1944. Pb, 8 p.

Ritchie, Elizabeth, Lessons of Life and Death: A Memorial of Sarah Ball, who died in her Eighteenth Year. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, ca. 1850. Hb, 144 p.

Speer, Robert Elliott [1867-1947], Of One Blood: A Short Study of the Race Problem. Accession #005a045006

Historical Sketches of the Missions under the care of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A.. Fourth Edition, 1897. Philadelphia: Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church, 1897. [Philadelphia: American Printing House]. Hb, 368 p.; 21 cm. Accession #017a046004

Mrs. Kennedy, Decennial Address delivered before the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbytery of Carlisle at Carlisle, March 9, 1887. Accession #015a050000

The United Presbyterian Church of North America (UPCNA)

Charter and By-Laws of the Women?s General Missionary Society of the United Presbyterian Church of North America. Adopted 1888. Amended 1897. Re-print ? 1930. Accession #016a017001

The Women's Missionary Magazine of the United Presbyterian Church, 22.4 (Nov. 1908); 27.10 (May 1914); 28.2 (Sept. 1914); and 28.9 (Apr 1915). Accession #007a179000.

Reports of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, 1872-1880. Bound volume deaccessioned from the United Presbyterian Mission Library, NYC. Accession #011a075000

Tenth Anniversary Memorial: Young People's Christian Union of the United Presbyterian and Associate Reformed Presbyterian Churches of North America, 1889-1899.

Puritans and/or Reformed

James, John Angell [1785-1859]
• Female Piety. The Young Woman's Friend and Guide to Life and Immortality. Foreword by Edna Rachel Sackau Gerstner [1919-1999].
• A Widow Directed to a Widow's God.
VanDoodewaard, Rebecca, Reformation Women: Sixteenth-Century Figures Who Shaped Christianity's Rebirth.

Africa

Mackenzie, Jean Kenyon [1874-1936], Black Sheep: Adventures in West Africa; with Illustrations. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. Hb, [xii], 314 p.

India

Ferger, H. R., et al, After One Hundred Years: Being Papers prepared for the Centennial Meeting of the North India Mission of the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. at Landour, June 26 to July 2, 1936. 

Rockey, Helen M. and Harold B. Hunting, The Wonderland of India. New York City: The Board of Foreign Missions and the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1922. Pb, 126 p.; 19 cm. Accession #012a03300.

Japan

Kelly, Arlene Woods, Kinjo Gakuin 1889-1989: Educational Institution for Women.

Watanabe, Yoshichika, Kinjo Gakuin One-Hundred-Year History.

Scotland

Macdonald, Leslie A. Orr, A Unique and Glorious Mission. Women and Presbyterianism in Scotland, 1830-1930.

Other

Zaka, Anees & Diane Coleman, Cry of the Heart and Quest of the Mind. An Analysis of Muslim and Christian Women's Search for Truth and Honor. Foreword by Diane Langberg. Philadelphia: Church Without Walls, 2006. Pb, 156 p.; 22 cm. Accession #023a033003.

Recent Accessions or Additional Items to Sort:

"1937 History Women's Auxiliary, Presbyterian Church. [inadequate description]. Accession #007a223000.

Women in Office: A Report to the Christian Reformed Churches. Grand Rapids, MI: CRC Publications, 1990. Pb, 62 p.; 23 cm. Accession #022a095004.

Kloosterman, Nelson D. and Cornelis P. Venema, A Cause of Division : The Hermeneutic of Women's Ordination. Orange City, IA: Mid-America Reformed Seminary, 1991. Pb, 23 p.; 22 cm. Accession #021a062037.

Menchinger, Lisa and Melissa McPhail, Galatians: Redeeming Grace and the Cross of Christ. Wheaton, IL: Sophron Studies, 2017. Pb, 177 p.; 28 cm.