Arthur Lee Mansure's ashes are with his second wife Geneva Burrows.
Arthur Lee Mansure was always known as Art. While pursuing a business degree at the University of Michigan, Art felt called to the ministry. With trepidation he told his father a self-made inventive engineer. It was during the great depression that Art approached his father saying I want to be a minister. To his surprise Art was told that his father had always wanted to be a minister but could not afford to go to seminary. Thus, Art had his father's blessing and support to become a minister. Apparently, it was in Art's blood because his grandfather Robert Mansure was a lay preacher.
In seminary at Boston college, Arthur introduced his roommate, Mark Birrell, to his cousin Jeanne Dum – the only daughter of his mother's twin sister. Mark returned the favor by introducing Art to his first wife, Marie Evangeline Wachs.
Art and Marie began life together in Detroit, but when Art decided to pursue a PhD they moved to Peterborough New Hampshire so he commute to Boston University. His master's dissertation: Was Mark a Reporter or an Interpreter? And his answer was both or "it seems reasonable that he was led to write, not by one motivation alone, but by a combination of desires."
While at Boston University the Methodist Church asked Art and Marie, if rather than return to the pulpit, if they would become missionaries to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to teach in the Methodist Seminary in Old Umtali (now Old Mutare). Their work there is best summarized there by Bishop Muzorewa who wrote
"Today it is the living example of my teachers more than their formal teaching that remains impressed on my memory."... The teacher "brought from Boston University not only new insights in New Testament interpretation but also an example of humility that remains with us all.
"One day news came that Darius Jijita, my close friend and brother of my classmate, was seriously ill. The usual practice was for the Principal to give a student permission to return home by his own means. Imagine our surprise and pleasure when Dr. Mansure himself offered to drive us there in his own car, to sleep in our modest home, and to pray with us there for healing. Such involvement by a white person in the problems of an African family was not common in Rhodesia in those days."
After 5 years we were furloughed and thus he began Art's career as a professor.
Quote from Rise Up & Walk Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa, An Autobiography, Abbington Nashville, 1978. P33-34.
Arthur Lee Mansure was always known as Art. While pursuing a business degree at the University of Michigan, Art felt called to the ministry. With trepidation he told his father a self-made inventive engineer. It was during the great depression that Art approached his father saying I want to be a minister. To his surprise Art was told that his father had always wanted to be a minister but could not afford to go to seminary. Thus, Art had his father's blessing and support to become a minister. Apparently, it was in Art's blood because his grandfather Robert Mansure was a lay preacher.
In seminary at Boston college, Arthur introduced his roommate, Mark Birrell, to his cousin Jeanne Dum – the only daughter of his mother's twin sister. Mark returned the favor by introducing Art to his first wife, Marie Evangeline Wachs.
Art and Marie began life together in Detroit, but when Art decided to pursue a PhD they moved to Peterborough New Hampshire so he commute to Boston University. His master's dissertation: Was Mark a Reporter or an Interpreter? And his answer was both or "it seems reasonable that he was led to write, not by one motivation alone, but by a combination of desires."
While at Boston University the Methodist Church asked Art and Marie, if rather than return to the pulpit, if they would become missionaries to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to teach in the Methodist Seminary in Old Umtali (now Old Mutare). Their work there is best summarized there by Bishop Muzorewa who wrote
"Today it is the living example of my teachers more than their formal teaching that remains impressed on my memory."... The teacher "brought from Boston University not only new insights in New Testament interpretation but also an example of humility that remains with us all.
"One day news came that Darius Jijita, my close friend and brother of my classmate, was seriously ill. The usual practice was for the Principal to give a student permission to return home by his own means. Imagine our surprise and pleasure when Dr. Mansure himself offered to drive us there in his own car, to sleep in our modest home, and to pray with us there for healing. Such involvement by a white person in the problems of an African family was not common in Rhodesia in those days."
After 5 years we were furloughed and thus he began Art's career as a professor.
Quote from Rise Up & Walk Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa, An Autobiography, Abbington Nashville, 1978. P33-34.
Arthur Lee Mansure's ashes are with his second wife Geneva Burrows.
Arthur Lee Mansure was always known as Art. While pursuing a business degree at the University of Michigan, Art felt called to the ministry. With trepidation he told his father a self-made inventive engineer. It was during the great depression that Art approached his father saying I want to be a minister. To his surprise Art was told that his father had always wanted to be a minister but could not afford to go to seminary. Thus, Art had his father's blessing and support to become a minister. Apparently, it was in Art's blood because his grandfather Robert Mansure was a lay preacher.
In seminary at Boston college, Arthur introduced his roommate, Mark Birrell, to his cousin Jeanne Dum – the only daughter of his mother's twin sister. Mark returned the favor by introducing Art to his first wife, Marie Evangeline Wachs.
Art and Marie began life together in Detroit, but when Art decided to pursue a PhD they moved to Peterborough New Hampshire so he commute to Boston University. His master's dissertation: Was Mark a Reporter or an Interpreter? And his answer was both or "it seems reasonable that he was led to write, not by one motivation alone, but by a combination of desires."
While at Boston University the Methodist Church asked Art and Marie, if rather than return to the pulpit, if they would become missionaries to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to teach in the Methodist Seminary in Old Umtali (now Old Mutare). Their work there is best summarized there by Bishop Muzorewa who wrote
"Today it is the living example of my teachers more than their formal teaching that remains impressed on my memory."... The teacher "brought from Boston University not only new insights in New Testament interpretation but also an example of humility that remains with us all.
"One day news came that Darius Jijita, my close friend and brother of my classmate, was seriously ill. The usual practice was for the Principal to give a student permission to return home by his own means. Imagine our surprise and pleasure when Dr. Mansure himself offered to drive us there in his own car, to sleep in our modest home, and to pray with us there for healing. Such involvement by a white person in the problems of an African family was not common in Rhodesia in those days."
After 5 years we were furloughed and thus he began Art's career as a professor.
Quote from Rise Up & Walk Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa, An Autobiography, Abbington Nashville, 1978. P33-34.
Arthur Lee Mansure was always known as Art. While pursuing a business degree at the University of Michigan, Art felt called to the ministry. With trepidation he told his father a self-made inventive engineer. It was during the great depression that Art approached his father saying I want to be a minister. To his surprise Art was told that his father had always wanted to be a minister but could not afford to go to seminary. Thus, Art had his father's blessing and support to become a minister. Apparently, it was in Art's blood because his grandfather Robert Mansure was a lay preacher.
In seminary at Boston college, Arthur introduced his roommate, Mark Birrell, to his cousin Jeanne Dum – the only daughter of his mother's twin sister. Mark returned the favor by introducing Art to his first wife, Marie Evangeline Wachs.
Art and Marie began life together in Detroit, but when Art decided to pursue a PhD they moved to Peterborough New Hampshire so he commute to Boston University. His master's dissertation: Was Mark a Reporter or an Interpreter? And his answer was both or "it seems reasonable that he was led to write, not by one motivation alone, but by a combination of desires."
While at Boston University the Methodist Church asked Art and Marie, if rather than return to the pulpit, if they would become missionaries to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to teach in the Methodist Seminary in Old Umtali (now Old Mutare). Their work there is best summarized there by Bishop Muzorewa who wrote
"Today it is the living example of my teachers more than their formal teaching that remains impressed on my memory."... The teacher "brought from Boston University not only new insights in New Testament interpretation but also an example of humility that remains with us all.
"One day news came that Darius Jijita, my close friend and brother of my classmate, was seriously ill. The usual practice was for the Principal to give a student permission to return home by his own means. Imagine our surprise and pleasure when Dr. Mansure himself offered to drive us there in his own car, to sleep in our modest home, and to pray with us there for healing. Such involvement by a white person in the problems of an African family was not common in Rhodesia in those days."
After 5 years we were furloughed and thus he began Art's career as a professor.
Quote from Rise Up & Walk Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa, An Autobiography, Abbington Nashville, 1978. P33-34.
