Author/Ministry
While the 1980s were a decade of prosperity for most Americans, they were not for Mansfield. Facing insurmountable debt, he was financially and spiritually broken when he arrived in Nashville in 1984. Mansfield had gone from having servants, gardeners, housekeepers, cooks, gofers, drivers, Mercedes cars, expensive toys, guesthouses, fame, bucks and glory to bankruptcy and desperation. He arrived in Tennessee with three suitcases and three cardboard boxes – the only mementos of his heady days in Los Angeles.
After a born-again experience in the late 1980s, Mansfield rebounded in his personal and professional life. He produced the legendary Imperials and the Gaither Vocal Band's 1991 album, Homecoming. The Grammy Award-winning album featured a who's who of gospel artists including the Gaither Family, The Speer Family, Jake Hess, Hovie Lister, Howard and Vestal Goodman, George Younce, Glen Payne, James Blackwood, Eva Mae LeFevre, Buck Rambo, J.D. Sumner, The Stamps and Rudy and Larry Gatlin of The Gatlin Brothers. In addition, this classic recording received a Dove Award that same year.
The new millennium brought even greater fortunes to Mansfield, who penned The Beatles, The Bible and Bodega Bay in 2000. Published by Broadman & Holman, the work had three printings and was the only book ever approved by the Beatles (Yoko Ono on John Lennon's behalf) outside their own Anthology. That literary endeavor was followed by The White Book, The Beatles, the Bands, the Biz: An Insiders Look at an Era (Thomas Nelson) in 2007.
'The White Book' has been endorsed by many Apple/Beatles related people including Andrew Loog Oldham, Peter Asher, Alan Parsons, Robin Leach, Pete Dicks of Europe's no1 Beatles Radio Show (BeatlesandBeyond) and former Apple President Jack Oliver.
Mansfield's third book, Between Wyomings, published by Thomas Nelson, was released on June 9, 2009.
Stumbling on Open Ground, his fourth, most heavily endorsed and insightful book, is also a Thomas Nelson Publishing release (January 15, 2013), and reaches a whole new audience for Ken’s innovative writing approach.
Today Mansfield has a unique traveling outreach ministry with a message that draws heavily from his record industry days.
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