Author: timfrakes
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Huntington Beach, California
Took a drive on the Pacific Coast Highway and stopped to take these shots of the surf, just north of Huntington Beach, California. The off-shore oil platform in one shot makes me think about the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Together in Mission 2010
This is a video I produced for the Florida-Bahamas Synod of the ELCA for their 2010 Synod Assembly through Kairos and Associates. The family and I (minus Emily who is away at college) toured Florida for a week; Naples to Fort Lauderdale, Port St. Lucie to Clearwater. They played while I recorded stories of mission…
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Faith in Action: Salem Lutheran, Glendale, CA
This is a video I produced as part of a capital campaign to renovate and redesign the church and school campus at Salem Lutheran in Glendale, California. Kairos, a national Christian resource development firm recommended me for the job. During production I stayed at the home of Salem members Bob and Chris Watson. Their daughter…
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Together in Mission: Haiti
There is a new Lutheran Church in Haiti. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Haiti is a growing body of believers with 12 congregations scattered across Haiti. The Florida-Bahamas Synod of the ELCA asked me to put this video together for the 2010 Synod Assembly.
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Carrie Newcomer 2010 Spiritual Journey
This is a 2010 Spiritual Journey I produced on singer, song writer Carrie Newcomer for the Chicago Sunday Evening Club‘s WTTW Channel 11 PBS Chicago program, 30 Good Minutes.
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Clearing Rubble, Redemption Lutheran, Carrefour, Haiti
Members of Redemption Lutheran Church in Carrefour, Haiti gather to clear rubble from their destroyed church building. The structure collapsed during the January 12, 2010 earthquake that hit Haiti. Fortunately, no one was in the building when it collapsed.
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Glory to God Alone: The Life of J.S. Bach
This is a documentary I produced while working for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. I re-post it here, in honor of J.S. Bach’s birthday! Soli Deo Gloria! Glory to God Alone: The Life of J. S. Bach, is an award winning introduction to the great composer. Awarded the DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Award for best in…
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Haiti Lutheran Church: New Office
It’s not all bad news coming out of Haiti. As workers put on the finishing touches, Pastor Livenson Lauvanus of the Haiti Evangelical Lutheran Church shows off their new office space in Port Au Prince. The new space will provide offices space, guest lodging, a chapel and meeting space. Funding for the rental property was…
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“I must be in the front row…”
So, my daughter, Emily gets Connor and I $20 Bulls tickets in the nose bleeds. At half time, a guy with a walkie-talkie taps me on the shoulder and asks if we want to sit courtside? “Sure!” So, off we go to watch Bulls get pounded in seats with a ticket price of $950 each!…
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Eskimo Testimonies
Every now and then, I think back on a visit Jim Quattrocki, Bob Elliott and I made to Alaska’s Seward Peninsula in September, 1994. Eskimo Testimonies is a 7-minute video we produced for Mosaic, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. We spent 12 days touring Eskimo villages like Brevig Mission, Wales…