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Sunday 17 January 2021
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New young writers  

By Mark Tronson - Press Service International

Photo  -    Barry Kirby, Wellington NZ

The Press Service International young writer program in conjunction with Christian Today sees numbers of new young people become part of the program each year.

So too 2019 and these first three months has seen another fresh contingent of young people become part of the young writer program.

Internationals 18-30 years

Crystelda Naidoo  -  South Africa

Rume Kpadamrophe  -  Nigeria

Francesca Tavares  -  West Indies

Tamika Smith  -  USA

Liliana Ferrao  -  Mozambique

Dat Nguyen  -  Vietnam

Kacy Garvey  -  West Indies

Jhonelle Grant  -  West Indies

Kimberley Morgan  -  West Indies

Neville Hiatt, Melbourne

Australians 18-30 years

Rochelle Ross  -  Sunshine Coast

Hope Pratt  -  Sydney

Roden Meares  -  Melbourne

New Zealand   18-30 years

Barry Kirby  -  Wellington

Rebecca Howan  -  Wellington

Petro Swart  -  Christchurch

Blake Gardiner  - Auckland

Over 31s

Diana Fowler  -  Adelaide

Travis Barnes  -  Melbourne

Neville Hiatt  -  Melbourne

Jennifer Javed Khan  -  Pakistan

Photo  -   Tamika Smith, USA

Moving on

Each year there are those who have moved on, young writers who have given several years of writing and these too are acknowledged.

Thomas Devenish (Hobart), Cheryl McGrath (Melbourne), Tom Anderson (Ipswich), Tim Robertson (Sydney), Christopher Archibald (Sydney), Leigh Clough (Gold Coast), Clarissa Yates (Perth), Zach Radloff (Gold Coast), Meenal Sim (Sydney), Steve Cole (Grafton), Liam Denny (Sydney), Mel Cleary (Wellington NZ).

Cyclical

Daniel Jang a former NZ Basil Sellers Young Writer Award winner and now a senior writer sent an Email to me in January identifying the nature of the young writer ministry has a cyclical aspect with young people coming and going.

Yes, we have found this over our 10 years of this young writer ministry. The cyclical nature of this demonstrates how young people engage and experience various aspects of Christian ministry. We are a part of this phenomena.

In my view reading the science historically, so too is climate change is cyclical.

As 97.5% is natural (undisputed) and 2.5% contributed by human engagement, and Australia an infinitesimal part of that 2.5% and with the high cost of renewables, I am now even more convinced that the climate change industry will fight tooth and nail for the massive $ it acquires. A very helpful explanation is from Professor Ian Plimer

Photo  -   Rebecca Howan, Wellington, NZ

Dr Mark Tronson is a Baptist minister (retired) who served as the Australian cricket team chaplain for 17 years (2000 ret) and established Life After Cricket in 2001. He was recognised by the Olympic Ministry Medal in 2009 presented by Carl Lewis Olympian of the Century. He mentors young writers and has written 24 books, and enjoys writing. He is married to Delma, with four adult children and grand-children. Dr Tronson writes a daily article for Christian Today Australia (since 2008) and in November 2016 established Christian Today New Zealand.

Mark Tronson's archive of articles can be viewed at http://www.pressserviceinternational.org/mark-tronson.html

Dr Mark Tronson is a Baptist minister (retired) who served as the Australian cricket team chaplain for 17 years (2000 ret) and established Life After Cricket in 2001. He was recognised by the Olympic Ministry Medal in 2009 presented by Carl Lewis Olympian of the Century. He mentors young writers and has written 24 books, and enjoys writing. He is married to Delma, with four adult children and grand-children. Dr Tronson writes a daily article for Christian Today Australia (since 2008) and in November 2016 established Christian Today New Zealand. Dr Mark Tronson’s Press Service International in 2019 was awarded the Australasian Religious Press Association’s premier award, The Gutenberg. In September 2020 Summer Moore presented her commission portrait of Dr Mark Tronson holding the Gutenberg plaque. The above photo is the upper part from this portrait.

Mark Tronson's archive of articles can be viewed at: http://www.pressserviceinternational.org/mark-tronson.html

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