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Mark Tronson

Press Service International

Dr Mark Tronson  -  a 4 min video

https://youtu.be/vxhhVbRmUlM

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

  • Away from home

    Christmas is what – only 9 weeks away. Christmas time has special significance for those English and Australians living or visiting in each other's countries as there is a pining to be home with family and friends. In my own family along with wider family members who have experienced such pining when in Britain at Christmas.

  • Implicating homesickness

    When a child, I heard stories of my mother's childhood in England and her adjustment to Australia, where she came as a lonely teenager. She did, however, find more opportunities here. She was a lover and player of cricket, even barracked for the Aussie team. Although nostalgic for some of the English experiences of her childhood, she never ever mentioned she wanted to go back.

  • Senior writers adjusting  

    The Press Service International young writer program in conjunction with Christian Today has a number of senior writers which seems something on an anomaly. The young writer program faced an issue – what happens when the young writers were no longer that young!

  • ARPA 2019 ‘Best New Writer’ - Bronze

    These past three weeks the young writer ministry ‘Press Service International’ (PSI) has been celebrating three accolades from the 2019 Australasian Religious Press Association conference in Christchurch.

  • Selecting a church - 10 errors

    It was fascinating to read an archive article in the Sydney Morning Herald by Stephen Ottley, entitled "Top 10 car buying mistakes". I considered the parallels with these issues when considering which church to choose.

  • Sport franchise ideas

    Business franchising is a common idea known to us all. Most local major business houses are under franchises or similar financial agreements. McDonalds, Kentucky Fried. White goods firms, bedding and furniture, huge building enterprizers and even the big-time hotel industry.  

  • The Ashley Saunders Story

    “You can take the boy out of Newcastle; but you can’t take Newcastle out of the boy” – a saying that is very true of me. Although I haven’t lived in Newcastle for almost 30 years, I still answer the question, “Where are you from?” by reference to my city of birth rather than by reference to my present place of residence.

  • Grafton locomotive depot

    As the Footplate Padre I have visited the Grafton Locomotive Depot and met the enginemen whose tasks varied from being senior drivers to that supervising the rosters for locomotive crews.

  • What is ‘faith financed’ for mission people

    Reliable statistics on evangelical missionary endeavours has always been of interest to me as I was pleased to read reliable data when the merging of two large American evangelical organisations was announced some time ago.

  • Planning for Schoolies

    In Eastern Australia, the traditional end-of-school celebration, is popularly called 'Schoolies Week'. In Australia, the end of the academic year and impending summer also coincide with the forthcoming Christmas holidays. The air of festivities is therefore multiplied several-fold.