PCA HISTORICAL CENTER
Archives and Manuscript Repository for the Continuing Presbyterian Church


Thomas Claude Waldecker

Manuscript Collection MS#039
Box #474

Content Summary: Minutes and Reports of Southwest Presbytery (RPCES); Illiana Presbytery (RPCES & PCA); Position Papers and other materials on the Joining & Receiving; Papers on Church Office; Chapter 4 of The History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, by Betsy Clark.

Span dates: 1970 - 1988 Size: 0.5 cu. ft. (one carton)

Access: This collection is open to researchers.

Preferred citation:
Thomas Waldecker Manuscript Collection, Box 474, PCA Historical Center, St. Louis, Missouri.

Rev. Thomas Claude Waldecker
[23 February 1927 - 10 September 2017]

Related Collections: Illiana and Southwest Presbyteries of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod

Box 474

File—Subject
ƒ01—Finding Aid

ƒ02—Clark, Betsy, History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, chapter 4, with accompanying letter to RPCES pastors regarding declension in purity of doctrine and worship [14pp.]

ƒ03—Illiana Presbytery (RPCES), 1977 - 1979, Church Extension Committee: Minutes; Reports

ƒ04—Illiana Presbytery (RPCES), 1980, Church Extension Committee: Minutes; Reports

ƒ05—Illiana Presbytery (RPCES), 1981, Church Extension Committee: Minutes; Reports

ƒ06—Illiana Presbytery (RPCES/PCA), 1982, Minutes

ƒ07—Illiana Presbytery (RPCES/PCA), 1982, Church Extension Committee: Minutes; Reports

ƒ08—Illiana Presbytery (PCA), 1983, Minutes

ƒ09—Illiana Presbytery (PCA), 1983, Church Extension Committee: Minutes; Reports

ƒ10—Illiana Presbytery (PCA), 1984, Minutes

ƒ11—Illiana Presbytery (PCA), 1984, Church Extension Committee: Minutes; Reports

ƒ12—Illiana Presbytery (PCA), 1985, Minutes

ƒ13—Illiana Presbytery (PCA), 1986, Minutes

ƒ14—Illiana Presbytery (PCA), 1987, Minutes

ƒ15—Illiana Presbytery (PCA), 1988, Minutes

ƒ16—Joining & Receiving, 1981 - 1982, Correspondence Regarding; Reports

ƒ17—Joining & Receiving, 1981 - 1982, Personal Statements and Position Papers: Clark, Gordon H., The Proposal to Abolish the RPCES [5pp.]; Ford, Stephen B., Position Paper in Favor of Union [2pp.]; Malkus, Nelson H., Statement Concerning the Proposed Joining & Receiving [4pp.]; Waldecker, Tom, Report to Illiana Presbytery, [8pp.]; Dunkerley, Donald A., Summary Overview [1pg.]; Baughman, R. Michael, "Called to Unity But Not to Union" [Letter], New Horizons, Vol. 2, No. 9 (Nov. 1981), pg. 2.; Unsigned, Re: The J&R Offered by the PCA [4pp.];

ƒ18—Joining & Receiving, 1981, Information Booklets: Information Introducing and Comparing the PCA, OPC, RPCES and RPCNA [36pp.]; Information for the RPCES to Prepare It to Vote on Being Received by the PCA [March 1981, 23pp.]; Progress Report No. 3: Recommendation and Information for the RPCES to Prepare It to Vote on Being Received by the PCA [Dec. 1981, 39pp.]

ƒ19—Miscellaneous Reports:  The Qualifications of a "Presbyter" by Alton J. Shirey [4pp.]; The Qualifications Encompassed in the Titles "Pastor" and "Minister" by James J. Conrad [6pp.]; The Bishop and the "Bishop" by Harris Langford [4pp.]; Questions to Ask a Candidate for the Pulpit [1pg.]; Crowns [Topical study, 2pp.]

ƒ20—Southwest Presbytery (RPCES), 1970, Minutes [9 leaves]

ƒ21—Southwest Presbytery (RPCES), 1971, Minutes [7 leaves]

ƒ22—Southwest Presbytery (RPCES), 1972, Minutes [11 leaves]

ƒ23—Southwest Presbytery (RPCES), 1973, Minutes [10 leaves]

ƒ24—Southwest Presbytery (RPCES), 1974, Minutes [10 leaves]

ƒ25—Southwest Presbytery (RPCES), 1975, Minutes [11 leaves]

ƒ26—Southwest Presbytery (RPCES), 1976, Minutes [18 leaves]

ƒ27—Southwest Presbytery (RPCES), 1977, Minutes [11 leaves]