{"id":2636,"date":"2015-09-29T14:23:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T19:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2015-09-29T14:23:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T19:23:59","slug":"new-book-adventures-in-development-by-charles-gervais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/news\/new-book-adventures-in-development-by-charles-gervais","title":{"rendered":"New Book:  Adventures in Development by Charles Gervais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/FrGervais_AdventuresinDevelopment_book2_frontcover-Copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2638\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/FrGervais_AdventuresinDevelopment_book2_frontcover-Copy-198x300.png\" alt=\"FrGervais_AdventuresinDevelopment_book2_frontcover - Copy\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/FrGervais_AdventuresinDevelopment_book2_frontcover-Copy-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/FrGervais_AdventuresinDevelopment_book2_frontcover-Copy-300x454.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/FrGervais_AdventuresinDevelopment_book2_frontcover-Copy-260x393.png 260w, https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/FrGervais_AdventuresinDevelopment_book2_frontcover-Copy.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>Veteran missionary with the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society, Fr. Charles Gervais shares poignant stories with a dash of humour about development and justice issues in the Philippines and Ecuador. Fr. Charlie\u2019s stories show how persistent, clever and courageous we must be to achieve success. Many of the lessons he imparts are delivered through short personal stories of ordinary people he met in his decades of ministry. Faith and contemplation mix with stories of violence, warfare, children, construction and celebrations\u2014a world apart from the shelter of the cloister. Vivid and enlightening, this book is sure to engage and inspire all readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Order yours from Novalis today:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.novalis.ca\/Product.aspx?ids=7623210\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.novalis.ca\/Product.aspx?ids=7623210<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran missionary with the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society, Fr. Charles Gervais shares poignant stories with a dash of humour about development and justice issues in the Philippines and Ecuador. Fr. Charlie\u2019s stories show how persistent, clever and courageous we must be to achieve success. Many of the lessons he imparts are delivered through short personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2640,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/2640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}