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Roger Reid reveals the due diligence!

Reverend Roger Reid was the foundation Chairman of the Sports and Leisure Ministry. This week, he revealed for the first time why, in 1982, the InterChurch Trade and Industry Mission (ITIM) and Heads of Churches supported Baptist minister Mark Tronson's remarkable vision for ministry into professional sport.

Each of these Heads of Church denominations subsequently appointed a representative to what Kenneth McDowell called the “Sports and Leisure Ministry” (SLM), under Roger Reid, who was appointed as the foundation Chairman. These representatives became accountable to the Heads of Churches.

At the inaugural national board meeting, a gathering of senior churchmen prayed their blessing on M V Tronson so as to initiate this new work as a 'faith financed mission'. Over the following 18 years SLM grew to 250 part time volunteers of which 150 were chaplains to sports.

In March 2000 Heads of Churches released Mark and Delma Tronson so that they could establish a less demanding ministry (Well-Being Australia), as they continued their well established cricket ministry and their respite ministry for Australian Institute of Sport athletes at 'Basil Sellers House' in Moruya.

Subsequently, Mark and Delma Tronson have duplicated this respite ministry at Basil Sellers Tweed, and Mark has found his own respite and relaxation in diversifying into an Art ministry. The story of Mark and Delma Tronson that started with the SLM all those 26 years ago, still continues into the future in a different format.

“It has been noted that people come away from their pastoral care or conversations over a cuppa, with the conviction that with God, anything can be achieved; and achieved in the joy of the Lord.

“In recalling this history we give credit to God for what He has achieved as His Spirit led Mark and us all into the Sports and Leisure Ministry and its continuing off shoots,” Reverend Roger Reid concluded.

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