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The numbers get acknowledged

Baptist minister and Well-Being Australia chairman, Mark Tronson, is becoming more surprised that the secular media is acknowledging the numbers of Evangelicals (which statistically includes Pentecostals) by happily publishing \'bums on seats\' data..

  • Is it in the blood?

    Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister, is fortunate to be able to trace his family back to circa 1580. His family tree between this date and 1792 is detailed on an authenticated parchment that has come down to him, and it shows a long line of Christian Ministers.

  • God's economics

    "The topic of economics is exceedingly difficult to talk about in most First World churches, more taboo than politics or even sex. Yet no aspect of our individual lives and corporate lives is more determinative of our welfare. And few subjects are more frequently addressed in our scriptures."1

  • Interview: Alice Achan, Director of the Christian Counselling Fellowship

    Christian Today Australia recently caught up with Alice Achan, Director of the Christian Counselling Fellowship, to talk about her ministry and the amazing transformation that has occurred for the young girls who have accepted Jesus Christ into their lives.

  • Cricket Season Nearly Over

    For Mark Tronson, when the cricket summer season starts, his cricket ministry engagements tail off. When he moved sideways in 2001 after 17 years from being the Australian cricket team chaplain to \'Life After Cricket\', and more recently extended that to \'Cricket family respite\', the seasons for his \'cricket ministry\' went \'into reverse\'.

  • The Dawkins Delusion

    \"I do not, by nature, thrive on confrontation,\" declares Richard Dawkins, the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University and one of the world\'s leading skeptics concerning Christianity and belief in God.

  • West Indies cricket outreach

    Mark Tronson has been the Australian cricket chaplain for 23 years. For 17 of these years, he was the Australian team chaplain until he moved sideways to \'Life After Cricket\' in 2001 and this year, he established \'Cricket family respite\'. This ministry is now calling on Christian men and women who are cricketers to make up a team for a mission outreach to the West Indies.

  • Thank God for football

    This statement will likely raise a few eyebrows. Is God really interested in football? In fact, for many, football is their god. But what is its relevance to WER as a Christian relief and development charity?

  • Early Church Fathers on Trinity

    The weekly \'one-minute\' bible teachings on Well-Being Australia's web-site, are now centering on the early church fathers. Cricket ministry\'s Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister and chairman of Well-Being Australia, presents the current series on the doctrine of the Trinity.

  • Coaches are important too !!

    Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson says that coaching staff are as important as athletes within a sports ministry. His credentials in this area go back to 1982, when he pioneered the Sports and Leisure Ministry in association with Australian Heads of Churches, and he held the Australian cricket chaplaincy from 1984.

  • Feast or Famine?

    For fifty years I have served people who lack the basic requirements of life. At the start of my ministry, my wife and I spent 8 years among the slums of Melbourne. There, in every street were people without adequate housing, food, clothing, employment and health care.

  • Mosques and Miracles affirmed again and again

    Dr Stuart Robinson, a former missionary to Muslim countries, wrote a book entitled 'Mosques and Miracles', which cites many astonishing and remarkable occurrences of Muslims from Middle Eastern countries responding to Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. This phenomenon has been verified by numerous others, including South African minister David Smethurst, who relocated to Australia from South Africa and Zimbabwe in 1988.