Mark Tronson

Mark Tronson

(Rev. Dr.) Mark Tronson (born 1951) is a well-known Australian Baptist pastor who established a nation-wide sports and leisure ministry known as Specialised Life-Orientated Ministries (SLM), popularly known amongst Australian churches as Sports & Leisure Ministries.

Tronson was trained in theology at Morling Baptist Theological College in Sydney, 1977-1980. Following pastorates at Croydon Park and Warragamba (1979–1983), he served as a part-time industrial chaplain until 1992.

Inspired at an international congress on sports mission in Hong Kong (1982) he pioneered the Sports and Leisure Ministry, in association with the Australian Heads of Churches. The Australian Cricket Board was the first to adopt the idea of a Sports Chaplaincy with the appointment of Tronson as their chaplain. Over the next 18 years he extended this ministry also to many other Australian professional sports associations - involving the placement of 150 chaplains - and developing networks of Christian athletes. He also arranged chaplaincies to Executive Ministries as many board members of sports were in the corporate world, also to the Entertainment, Media, and Tourism sectors.

Kevan Gosper, the Australian Olympic Committee President, invited Tronson to be a Chaplain at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. At subsequent Olympics, Tronson has appointed Australian Olympic chaplains. In 2000 Tronson was invited to the IOC Lausanne Switzerland to assist in the development of an Olympic Villages Religious Services protocol.

Tronson has undertaken numerous study tours on sports mission, speaking at seminars and engaging in evangelism in United States, United Kingdom, South Korea, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Israel, Turkey, Italy and France. In 1984-86 he wrote a doctoral dissertation on sports mission, which earned him a PhD from Louisiana Baptist University in association with Morling College.

In 2000 due to ill health, the Heads of Churches released Tronson from the Sports and Leisure Ministry, establishing a new venture - ‘Well-Being Australia’. He continues to network with athletes, especially Australian cricketers and developed athlete respite facilities, Basil Sellers Moruya and Basil Sellers Tweed.

In 2005 Mark Tronson was voted as one of Australia’s 25 most influential Evangelicals by the national evangelical newspaper New Life. Olympian of the Century Carl Lewis presented Mark Tronson and his wife Delma, 'Gold Medals' in February 2009 in Dallas, Texas, for their 27 years of sports and Olympic Ministry.

( Sports Chaplains are well established and since May 2005, SLM has undergone significant changes and is now known as Sports Chaplaincy Australia Inc.

Books

Mark Tronson has authored five books on Field Hockey:

  • From 1978-1994 he was The Australian newspaper's hockey writer for Olympics, World Cups and Champions Trophies.
  • No Orchestra, No Trumpet ISBN 0 6462032 5 8 (The story of Australia’s Sports Ministry)

Mark Tronson has also had published 16 books about his hobby, steam trains

External links

Well-Being Australia [1]

Sports Chaplaincy Australia [2]

References

Cricket Ministry

Mark Tronson - an Australian Baptist

Mark Tronson

Well-Being Australia

Sports Ministry Planning Guides

Retired Cricketers and Suicide

Mark Tronson - Pedigree of Families 1580-1792, 1792–2006

Mark Tronson - Basil Sellers 'Together in Ministry'


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