Authors Profile

Pathways to Service

A life of Public Speaking

Mr. Charles A. Maynard

Mr. Charles Maynard is and outstanding Dominican, a true son of the soil, who has distinguished himself as a Public Officer, a Government Minister and a consultant, and who has indelibly made his mark on Dominica’s economic political and social scenes.

Pathways to Service, a Life in Public Speaking are a culmination of his life experiences as a public speaker. It is a collection of nineteen speeches written and delivered throughout his long and illustrious career, some of which were delivered while he was just a Public Servant, and many while he served as a Minister of Government and a Member of Parliament. Others were delivered after his retirement from public office.

The speeches were delivered locally and regionally to a wide cross section of audiences, ranging from members of the Private Sector, to Legal Professionals, Civil Servants, Small Business Owners and Secondary School Students at graduation ceremonies, to a eulogy delivered at a funeral.

Not only does the author tackle head on, burning issues relating to discipline and bureaucracy In the Public Service and the Private Sector, he also, expertly and candidly, hands down his thoughts on law and life in out times, as well as expresses his views on other relevant and topical themes, such as the transformation of the Caribbean region into a thriving, and democratically self-sustaining economy.

All of the speeches, in one way or the other, reflect the author’s commitment to Nation Building and statesmanship and commitment to Educational empowerment and excellence in all spheres of life.

Building Churches Together

An Invitation to Study and Reflection

Sister Lorraine Royer, ICM

This engaging and appealing book compares Building Church Together to a large wagon wheel with its wide rim, strong spokes and big hub.

At the very core of the hub – its innermost center- is the Lord Jesus the source of all life, energy and movement. From the Lord Jesus issues the mission to evangelize. Evangelization begets Church. Evangelization consists in the building up of Church. Building Church is centrifugal, that is, it proceeds from the centre and directed outwards, in the direction of the world. We are the “Church in the Modern World”.

Like the spokes of the wagon wheel, the mission to evangelize radiates and spreads out through a rich variety of ministries that are interconnected; variety of ministries but unity of mission. When we view ministry from that perspective, from the centre, were in touch with its rich variety all at once. Connected to the centre the ministries receive from it their energy, strength and movement. Like the wagon wheel, Building Church Together calls us to focus our attention on the centre; on the Lord Jesus and from him the mission to evangelize.

Biography

Sister Lorraine Royer ICM is the author of The Eucharist Source and Summit of Our Lives@ 2005.She has also published in The Bible Today, Scripture for Life and Ministry (Volume 33, Number 5, September 1995), The God Who Surprises: Connections between Jonah and Acts. Sister Lorraine is currently doing retreat ministry at the Holy Redeemer Retreat House in the Commonwealth of Dominica