Mark Tronson
Press Service International
Dr Mark Tronson - a 4 min video
Chairman – Well-Being Australia
Baptist Minister 45 years
- 1984 - Australian cricket team chaplain 17 years (Ret)
- 2001 - Life After Cricket (18 years Ret)
- 2009 - Olympic Ministry Medal – presented by Carl Lewis
- 2019 - The Gutenberg - (ARPA Christian Media premier award)
Gutenberg video - 2min 14sec
Married to Delma for 45 years with 4 children and 6 grand children
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Ron Ross 2019 series on ‘Persons of Faith’
Ron Ross has been one of the stalwart senior writers for Press Service International in conjunction with Christian Today.
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Money keeps missions afloat (PSI Best of 2018)
The Church of England's former Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali says that what the great faiths condemn is the irresponsible use of wealth, not wealth itself. The worship of money is the root of all evil and not money on its own.
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War Artists (PSI Best of 2018)
Over the years it has come my way to give an ANZAC Day speech and in recent years I have touched on War Artists.
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Creditable history associated with faith financed missionary support (PSI Best of 2018)
Reliable statistics on evangelical missionary endeavours has always been of interest to many of us. Over the past few years I have written much on the nature of faith finances such as how CrossGlobal Link and The Mission Exchange merged representing 35,000 evangelical missionaries deployed in every country by more than 190 agencies and churches in North America.
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2019 looks like a good year for Aid
Here are some statistics from Baptist World Aid that few are aware of that will put a feel-good into the cockerels of our heart: For example – I found this stat – there are in 2018 – 17,000 fewer children die per day than in 1990 – and when you consider the population growth, that is an astonishing figure.
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Team work on steam – Footplate Padre (PSI Best of 2018)
New South Wales Government Railways locomotive crews in the days of steam out the back blocks of the state an all country town depots, everyone worked together to get their trains over long difficult dusty destinations, especially in mid summer.
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Our family pets and the neighbours (PSI Best of 2018)
The number of times Shire Councils are asked to adjudicate neighbourhood disputes over pet animals and birds is legion, and some finally end up in a court of law when all other possibilities and compromises and negotiations breaks down.
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Basil Sellers Annual Young Writer “Art”
Once again the annual Basil Sellers Young Writer Art work by Tronson du Coudray has been received by Mr Basil Sellers AM. This is the sixth such art work.
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Population increase is a science
Previously I have mentioned in this column on numerous occasions since 2008 that a former missionary (a lady) who spent many years in Bangladesh and who travelled extensively throughout the sub-continent and south east Asia said that Australia could settle 20 million from that region.
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A point of view – men do matter
Out of my archives I retrieved the article from the Sydney Morning Herald – a published review of Dr Helen Smith’s then new book, Men on Strike: Why Men are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood and the American Dream – And Why it Matters and what it contains will be like lighting a bushfire to ready sets of ears.