One of these interviewees was with the Footplate Padre, retired Baptist minister Mark Tronson who served as the Australian cricket team chaplain for 17 years, involved in Olympic ministries since 1984, founded the Sports and Leisure Ministry in 1982, earned two doctorates, written 24 books and since 2000 has been Chairman of Well-Being Australia which specialises in respite ministry.
Dan Wooding, 70, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for 47 years. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS) and was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC.
Dan Wooding hosts the weekly "Front Page Radio" show on KWVE in Southern California which is also carried on the Calvary Radio Network throughout the United States. The program is also aired in Great Britain on Calvary Chapel Radio UK. Besides this, Wooding is a host for His Channel Live, which is carried via the Internet to some 200 countries.
He is the author of some 44 books. Two of the latest include his autobiography, "From Tabloid to Truth", which is published by Theatron Books. Wooding, who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, has also recently released his first novel "Red Dagger".
The Dan Wooding interview of Mark Tronson centered on his Footplate Padre (railways) ministry, his athlete and missionary respite ministries (Chaplain to the Australian cricket team for 17 years, Ret.) and his Olympic role where since 2000 he presents Olympic host cities an Olympic Village Religious Services 'Protocol of Ideas' document and awarded an Olympic Ministry Medal (LWFCI) in 2009 by Olympian of the Century, Carl Lewis.
This interview was aired last Sunday across four continents on KWVE in Southern California and many other stations in the US (North America), the United Kingdom (Europe), in Belize (South America) and South Africa (Africa).
The 26 minute interview can be heard on Dan Wooding's the Assist New Service web site: Listen to the MP3.