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PCA
Historical Center |
| 12330
Conway Road |
| St.
Louis, MO 63141 |
- (314)
469-9077
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Our Mission:
The primary purpose
of the Historical Center of the Presbyterian Church in America
(PCA) is to assist the people of the PCA in making a record of
God's continuing faithfulness in our midst. We do this by training
church historians, by the production of relevant literature and
by serving the historical preservation and research needs of the
Presbyterian Church in America, its committees and agencies and
the churches of the denomination.
In order to fully accomplish this mission, the PCA Historical
Center also seeks some documentation of the larger ecclesiastical
context or background of the PCA. Thus, the development and progress
of every American Presbyterian denomination is to some extent
an interest of the Center, particularly where there has been a
direct historical connection. For instance, the PCA was largely
formed from churches that were once part of the old Southern denomination,
officially known as the Presbyterian Church, U.S. (PCUS). This
makes the history of the PCUS a legitimate interest of the Historical
Center and so we welcome materials into the Collection that document
the history of that denomination.
From the 1982 Joining and Receiving of the Reformed Presbyterian
Church, Evangelical Synod (RPCES), which was itself a merged group,
the PCA participates in the rich heritage of several other denominations.
Likewise, the PCA actively participates as a fraternal member
of the North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council (NAPARC),
and as a result the Historical Center seeks to document not only
the history of that organization, but in limited ways the histories
of the other participating NAPARC denominations.
Archival resources exist to be used. There is little point in
simply filing away papers that will never be looked at again.
The materials housed here have lasting value. They are relevant
to future generations of God's people and it is the purpose of
the PCA Historical Center to make these records accessible, both
now and for as long as God may give us the ability to preserve
them.