Well-Being Australia has provided respite facilities to the Australian Institute of Sport for nineteen years with Basil Sellers Moruya (Timeout in Moruya), Basil Sellers Tweed (Timeout in the Tweed) and more recently Basil Sellers Laguna Quays on the Whitsundays.
The ministry's chairman Mark Tronson co-ordinated the Basil Sellers Moruya athlete respite ministry for 14 years before relocating to Tweed Heads and establishing Basil Sellers Tweed in 2006 and this year in bringing on-line Basil Sellers Laguna Quays.
Tim Wilson heads up the Sports Ministry component of Brisbane YWAM's International Discipleship Training School (DTS) and invited Mark and Delma Tronson to speak to their students two years ago.
Mark Tronson interviewed Tim Wilson for the Australian Missionary News IPTV at that time and invited Tim Wilson to accompany him to the AIS Cricket Centre of Excellence last year.
Having to slow down due to medical issues Mark Tronson has been steadily passing off areas of responsibility, one of these was his role of visiting the SE Qld Australian Institute of Sport Units promoting athlete respite and passing out the AIS athlete and coach respite flyer.
Tim Wilson meanwhile had been looking for a limited component of practical sports ministry to add to his bow of responsibility at the DTS (Discipleship Training School) and it seemed to Mark Tronson this might dove tail nicely into the SE Qld AIS respite ministry "visiting" role.
Last month Mark Tronson introduced Tim Wilson to AIS Diving Head Coach Hui Tong and staff and then AIS Squash Head Coach Byron Davis and staff at their respective sport units.
The AIS Softball Unit that had been based in Brisbane in which the respite ministry had very good relationships has relocated to Melbourne.