Mark Tronson

Who is Mark Tronson?

Mark Tronson is a well-known Australian Baptist pastor who established a nation-wide sports and leisure ministry known as Specialised Life-Orientated Ministries, popularly known amongst Australian churches as Sports & Leisure Ministries.

Tronson was trained in theology at Morling Baptist Theological College in Sydney, 1977-1980. Following pastorates at Croydon Park and Warragamba, he served as a part-time industrial chaplain until 1992.

Inspired at an international congress on sports mission in Hong Kong he pioneered the Sports and Leisure Ministry, in association with the Australian Heads of Churches. The Australian Cricket Board was the first to adopt the idea of a Sports Chaplaincy with the appointment of Tronson as their chaplain. Over the next 18 years he extended this ministry also to many other Australian professional sports associations - involving the placement of 150 chaplains - and developing networks of Christian athletes. He also arranged chaplaincies to Executive Ministries as many board members of sports were in the corporate world, also to the Entertainment, Media, and Tourism sectors.