|PIC1|M V Tronson, a Baptist minister of 32 years is a regular at this monthly men's dinner, as he lives close by and he also likes to attend the Anglican 8.00am Sunday morning service before worshipping at the 9.30am Baptist Church with his wife Delma.
"It has been enjoyable to be part of the Tweed Anglican men's dinner ministry and moreover, it has been a privilege to have been invited as a speaker each year at one of these monthly meetings," M V Tronson smiled.
Over the past three years he has addressed the Tweed Anglican men's dinner fellowship on the following topics: his ministry as the Footplate Padre (2008); Sports ministry (2007), and in 2006 his Holy Land tours and attendance at the 'March of the Living' Auschwitz visit the year before.
In addition, in 2008, Mark Tronson coordinated the July men's dinner as a fund raiser for the Tweed 'Special Religious Education' (SRE) teachers and invited the men from other local churches. As as a draw card, he invited the international evangelist, the Reverend David Smethurst, to speak. There was a huge attendance.
For his 2009 speaking engagement M V Tronson sought something different, and as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) had recently uploaded the Dan Wooding interview (mentioned above) for their program 'The Making of Modern Australia', he considered this an ideal alternative to a speech.
Dan Wooding wrote of this interview:
'Many of you will know that I do a weekly "Front Page" interview for Safe Worlds IPTV in Irvine, California, and a recent one that I did was with Mark Tronson from Australia.
'Now comes the news that it is featured on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation website where they are featuring a series about the Making of Modern Australia. If you go to: http://makingaustralia.abc.net.au/_Chaplaincy-to-Australian-Sport/BLOG/217397/73526.html and click on the first picture of Mark, you can see this hilarious and wonderful interview with Mark who certainly is a great character and who, during the interview, tells the story of how chaplaincy to Australia's professional sports was pioneered.'
"The men in this fellowship were interested to hear the story from a different perspective, from someone they regard as a peer and colleague," M V Tronson explained. "They were fascinated to learn how the philosophical and theological aspects that impinges on a practical ministry."
Mark Tronson is available for 'outreach dinners' and 'men's breakfasts'. He served as the Australian cricket team chaplain for 17 years to 2000 and from 2001 has co-ordinated the Life After Cricket minstry. He also developed the Basil Sellers Moruya and Basil Sellers Tweed, athlete respite facilities.