With special guest:
- Warwick Marsh
Today we welcome Warwick Marsh as we approach Father’s Day in 2016. Warwick started the Dads4 Kids Fatherhood Foundation not long after Dads on the Air first hit the airwaves and has been one of our most frequent guests over the years.
Warwick brings enormous enthusiasm to everything he does and he does a lot. To get the message out about what it can mean to be a father Warwick has through the Dads4 Kids Foundation produced Community Service Announcements which have been taken up by network television stations. We urge everyone to see these vignettes, if not on your local TV station then on Dads4Kids YouTube channel. In the 2016 edition it tears at your heartstrings to hear a range of children from many different backgrounds provide a script with the simple word “Dad” or sometimes “Daddy”.
In this program we talk about what it means to be a father these days and how the role has changed over the years to broaden a father’s activities with his family.
Warwick has travelled widely around the country and has a wealth of personal experience about what it means to be a dad. He does not shy away from the problems with the Family Court and he has personally led efforts for reform. Warwick has also inspired the Indigenous community with his love and support.
We hear from Warwick Marsh about forming a band with members of his family who share his love of music. We get to hear a track from the double CD “Fathers” by The Marshes chosen for the show by Warwick.
We also hear about the Instagram Photo Competition for the month of September.
Father’s Day is a day for celebration and we wish all dads including the dads deprived of their children because of the actions of others a very happy Father’s Day, a day in the year when dads can think about their greatest creation.
This is a special show for a special day in the calendar.
Warwick Marsh
Warwick Marsh is the Co-Founder and President of Dads4Kids Fatherhood Foundation. He has been married to Alison since 1975. They have five children aged between 26 and 14 years. Warwick is also on the board of Australian Heart Ministries (AHM), the Illawarra Pastor’s Network and the advisory board for Music-Oz. He is the convenor for the National Prayer Council and an active committee member for the National Day of Thanksgiving. These are all community based non-profit charitable organisations. Warwick’s background is in the building construction industry as an employer and employee.
Warwick is a public speaker, writer, musician, minister, producer and TV director. He is a member of ACAN and the Australian Independent Record Association. He was formerly vice president of the Wollongong FGBMFI (Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International) from 1981-1990. Warwick was also the national coordinator and a founding board member for the Praise Corroboree 1996-98, an Aboriginal reconciliation prayer movement.
In 1998 Warwick received the FOL Fatherhood of the Year Award and in 2001 was awarded a centenary medal by the Governor General for ‘service to musical leadership for youth and the Aboriginal community, both in Australia and internationally’.
Song selection by our guest: Hearts of the Fathers by The Marshes