|PIC1|Well-Being Australia provides two facilities for cricketer respite, 'Basil Sellers Tweed' on the far north coast of New South Wales, a one hour drive from the Cricket Centre of Excellence in Brisbane, and 'Basil Sellers Moruya' on the south coast.
Mark and Delma Tronson have been involved in Cricket ministry since 1984 with the Australian Cricket Team chaplaincy which 17 years later was extended to 'Life After Cricket' along with a bi-annual Retired Australian Cricketers Newsletter.
"In 2007 Well-Being Australian established 'Cricket Family Respite' which is a further extension of our existing Cricket Ministry. This is the vehicle by which we make available 'Basil Sellers Tweed' to the wider cricket fraternity," Delma Tronson noted.
"It can become a little complicated with our Cricket ministry," Mark Tronson explained, "with all these different names associated with the various ministry activities as there is also a fair degree of crossover."
He has shown the association between different areas of his ministry by listing the components as follows:
Cricket Family Respite
'Basil Sellers Tweed' and 'Basil Sellers Moruya' facilities
Life After Cricket
All year ministry to retired cricketers and their families, and the Australian Retired Cricketers Bi-Annual Newsletter (published on the 30 November, and the 30 March)
Australian Cricket Ministry
Established after 17 years as the Australian Cricket Team Chaplain, this ministry is to administrators, coaches, national selectors, support staff, the Festival of Cricket, and includes Mark Tronson's annual pastoral letter to Australian cricketers (over the past 24 years) and pastoral letters at any time to current and former cricketers.
Mark Tronson the Well-Being Australia chairman and a Baptist minister of 31 years explained there was on-going and intertwined contact with cricketing people. He notes that once a man or woman becomes a cricketer, they are always a cricketer, for example:
- The AIS women's cricket doubles up as the Australian Women's Cricket team.
- AIS men's cricketers regularly become selected as Australian cricketers.
- Many retired Australian cricketers have coaching stints to the AIS Cricketers
With his lifetime interest in sports ministry, Mark Tronson has been able to draw on these extensive networks and expand them within the various aspects of his cricket ministry under the wider umbrella of his Well-Being Australia mission.