Arthur Leon Lindsay

Arthur was born on 18 January 1934 in Kokomo, Indiana, the youngest of George and Verda Mae Lindsay’s eleven children. After graduating from high school, he studied journalism at Purdue University and Notre Dame University, but served two years in the U.S. Army during the Korean War before finishing that degree, and after his military stint enrolled at Asbury College and Asbury Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky as a Bible scholar, earning a Master of Divinity in 1963. As an ordained Methodist minister Arthur pastored Mount Hope and Mount Gilead churches in Cynthiana, Kentucky, and then Methodist churches in Shipshewana and Scott, Indiana during the mid-1960s. From 1968 to 1972 he served as Director of Public Relations back at Asbury College, but then answered a call to the mission field and with his wife Carol founded Cornerstone, Inc., a non-denominational missionary society now celebrating its 54th year of worldwide ministry. Along with their three children, Arthur and Carol started the Evangelical Church of Casal Palocco near Rome, Italy, which served a large international community of worshippers for ten years, then returned to the United States to administer Cornerstone as it grew to encompass efforts in countries beyond Italy.

1988 was a watershed year in Arthur’s life, during which he split with Cornerstone and with his wife, and started a new chapter as an insurance salesman with Security Mutual Life (now Assurity) in Lincoln, Nebraska. Along with his considerable success in this new profession, Arthur authored a series of thirteen published books ranging from sports biographies and institutional histories to devotional studies and even works of fiction. In addition to short-term mission trips to such far-flung places as Honduras, Nigeria, and Ukraine, Arthur was a decades-long member of Grace Community Evangelical Church in Lincoln and was deeply involved with the Nebraska Fellowship of Christian Athletes and with Nebraska state-sanctioned prison ministry. He leaves behind many dear friends from all three groups.

Arthur was an avid sports enthusiast, and loved ministerial involvement with coaches and athletes alike, because more than anything he loved prayer and Bible study, and devoted many hours daily to his own private worship and the public sharing of his faith, referring to himself frequently and simply as “a servant of Jesus Christ,” the words he chose for his own memorial grave marker.

Arthur is survived by his three children Tedrin Blair Lindsay of Lexington, Kentucky, Timothy Lindsay and wife Brenda of Richmond, Virginia, and Linda Mae Silva and husband Brian of Nicholasville, Kentucky, seven grandchildren (Adam, Noah, Micah, Sara, and Grace Lindsay, and Colin and Lindsay Mae Silva), and numerous nephews and nieces and their progeny. He was preceded in death by both of his parents and all of his siblings, and by an infant son Colin in 1970.

A funeral service will be held on Friday 6 November 2026 at 10:00 a.m. at Lincoln Memorial Funeral Home, 6800 S. 14th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska 68512. Memorial contributions may be made to the Nebraska Fellowship of Christian Athletes.