Author: timfrakes
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Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, Remember the Dreamers in your Prayers
Friday, December 2, 2016, I recorded Illinois Senator Richard (Dick) Durbin at the Chicago Leadership Prayer Breakfast. The program airs twice. December 18 and December 25 at noon on ABC-7.2 Live Well Channel. In his remarks, Durbin challenged assembled Chicago business and religious leaders to remember “…the 40,000 people who awakened this morning in our…
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Juan Antonio Monroy on Fidel Castro
In September, 2014 I interviewed Spanish journalist Juan Antonio Monroy in Abilene, Texas for Herald of Truth Ministries. Monroy shared the story of his encounter with the late Fidel Castro at a gathering in Nicaragua. Monroy is also an evangelist and in 1994 was looking to get a visa to enter Cuba and preach in…
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CITGO Lemont Generations of Service
The CITGO Lemont Refinery has been serving the Lemont, Romeoville, Lockport and Joliet communities for 90 years. This video profiles three families that represent generations of service at the refinery.
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Sanctuary, Multi Cultural Youth Leadership Academy
Sunday, October 2, 2016, ABC7 Chicago. For more than 20 years, a Chicago-based group of African American men and women have run an Africentric outdoor ministry program for inner city youth know as SIMBA (Safe in My Brother’s Arms). As a result, hundreds of at-risk children experience the beauty of the outdoors each summer, while…
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Aisea Taimani Tongan Hymn: MYLA Camp, New Era, Michigan
Here is a Tongan Hymn performed by artist Aisea Taimani. The song is about forgiveness. I recorded this hymn at Living Waters Ministries near New Era, Michigan. It’s part of a documentary for Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries which will air in September on ABC7 Chicago. For more than 20 years, a Chicago-based group of African…
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LWF Jerusalem Isak Abu Sbieh
Isak Abu Sbieh is a Palestinian dialysis patient at the Lutheran World Federation‘s Augusta Victoria Hospital (AVH) in East Jerusalem. Abu Sbieh lives in Kafr Aqb, an Arab village just beyond the Kalandia checkpoint north of Jerusalem. Three times a week Abu Sbieh must pass back and forth through the Kalandia checkpoint on his way…
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CITGO Lemont Refinery, 90 Year Anniversary Video
This is a video I produced with Pete Colarelli and Jennifer Stocks at CITGO, Lemont Refinery commemorating the refineries 90th anniversary in the Lemont, Romeoville, Lockport, Joliet heritage corridor. In addition to being a major employer, CITGO supports many area non-profits including the United Way of Will County, Morning Star Mission, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Special…
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Paillard Bolex H16 F25, 16mm Movie Camera
Kind of went nuts today a bought a vintage, Swiss made Paillard Bolex H16 F25, 16mm Movie Camera with crank handle, three lenses and a cool leather carrying case. The Bolex company was founded by Jacques Bogopolsky in 1927. Bolex cameras were particularly important for early television news, nature films, and documentaries and are still…
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Around the World in 80 Days
2015 was a busy travel year with 80 days on the road including Scandinavia, Germany, Honduras, Puerto Rico and Haiti. 2016 also started on the road in Ireland on family holiday, followed by Israel/Palestine with Pastor Eric C. Shafer, recording our Stations of the Cross project. Plus stories for the Lutheran World Federation and the…
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Pakistan Again: Finding Common Ground
I’m in Pakistan working with Intersections International. Why Pakistan? Here is a 2014 piece I did with Rabbi Reuven Firestone, Professor of Judaism and Islam at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles and Senior Fellow at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at USC which sums up our project. Rabbi Firestone is traveling with…