Category Archives: Book Collection

A Sacred Trust

Four Part Program and Facilitator’s Guide A Sacred Trust is a four part DVD training curriculum available as a part of the Teaching Healthy Boundaries 101 & 201 Training Kit. The goals of this fundamental boundaries program are to: Increase awareness of the need for healthy boundaries in the clergy-congregant or teacher-student relationship Provide clergy, lay leaders and […]

Book of Common Worship, 2018 edition

This useful volume includes everything church leaders need for Sunday worship, the Christian year, the sacraments, and pastoral and occasional services, such as ordinations, weddings, wholeness services, and funerals. This revision adds brief passages of practical commentary before each section and service, as well as more guidance for those who pray spontaneously or compose their […]

Principles of Presbyterian Polity

Pastors, church leaders, and students of Presbyterian polity will find this a useful guide to Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) governance based on foundational principles. Recent changes in the PC(USA) Constitution have meant fewer rules and more flexibility in governance, making it imperative that leaders understand the historical principles that guide the church. Wilton explains the Book […]

The Presbyterian Deacon

In this highly useful book, Earl S. Johnson, Jr., explores the role of the deacon in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The author explains the freedom for churches to define the roles of deacons, and he supplies many helpful suggestions regarding their responsibilities. Johnson examines the ministry as it is described in sections of the Book […]

One Under God

In recognition of the contributions women have made to the congregations that now form the Presbytery of Ohio Valley, the Advisory Council on Women – with the help and love of the individual church ‘historians’ – has compiled these histories and sketches. ACW’s contribution to the celebration of America’s Bi-centennial is to share with each […]

Soul Biopsy

The spiritual journey of the soul takes a radical turn when one hears the word ‘cancer’ from the physician’s mouth. Share in the ‘adventure’ of a woman, mother, oncology and intensive care nurse, former Hospice chaplain and pastor as she tells her own spiritual and intimate story in the letter to a ‘dear Friend.’ Diagnosed […]

Soul Design

Life is much like a cluster of grapes… Writing your own spiritual autobiography can be a wonderful harvest of the soul. Picking your stories, tasting them, pressing them and extracting their unique flavor, and allowing them to ferment into a rich wine is the goal of this guide. You will have the opportunity to remember, […]

Running Quickbooks In Nonprofits 2nd Edition

Updated to include additional topics and to cover all versions of the software, this guide provides the most vital information on using QuickBooks to track financial data in nonprofit organizations. Management of donors, grants, and pledges, and topics such as allocating expenses to programs, handling donor restrictions, and generating the reports needed for donors and […]

A History of the Todd-Dickey Rural Training Parish

The Todd-Dickey Rural Training Parish consisted of 13 churches in Clark, Jefferson and Scott Counties. The churches were: Charlestown, Miller’s Chapel, Mt. Lebanon, Henryville, Otisco, Nabb, Owen Creek, New Market, New Washington, Bethlehem, Hebron, Sharon Hill, and Lexington. This history was assembled and published in print form by the Presbytery of New Albany in 1963. Digital […]