Author: timfrakes
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Healing in a Holy Land Fall 1999 Mosaic
Healing in a Holy Land is part of the Fall 1999 Mosaic, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Jim Quattrocki, Kevin Jacobson and I recorded this story at Augusta Victoria Hospital, a health care facility operated by the Lutheran World Federation AVH serves both Palestinian Christians and Muslims. We tell the…
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Through My Eyes
Jim Quattrocki, Kevin Jacobson, Jim Parks and I created this video in May, 1999. MTV was going strong in those days and reality TV was still in it’s infancy. So we gave they style a try. “Through My Eyes” follows an American college student, Hmong Ly, to the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem…
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Forgiving the Unforgivable: Restorative Justice
Forgiving the Unforgivable: Restorative Justice This is a 1999 feature story I produced for Mosaic, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. We recorded the story in Mitchell, South Dakota, Restorative justice was an emerging concept in American criminal justice and the faith-based advocates who supported it. Restorative Justice sheds light on…
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A Century in Madagascar
Kevin Jacobson, his brother John and I went to Madagascar September 12-22, 1998 to record two programs “Walking Together in Global Mission” and “A Century in Madagascar.” American Lutheran missionaries Stan and Kathie Quanbeck were part of a continuous family legacy that served in Madagascar for 100 years. It’s a legacy that helped build an…
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A Noble Tradition Weston Noble Winter 1995 Mosaic
A Noble Tradition Weston Noble Winter 1995 Mosaic, the video magazine of the ELCA What is the role of choral music in Lutheran worship? Mosaic profiles Weston Noble, director of Luther College’s Nordic Choir and popular guest conductor. Generations of high school and college students and countless congregations and audiences have been affected by the…
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A Noble Tradition Weston Noble Winter 1995 Mosaic, the video magazine of the ELCA What is the role of choral music in Lutheran worship? Mosaic profiles Weston Noble, director of Luther College’s Nordic Choir and popular guest conductor. Generations of high school and college students and countless congregations and audiences have been affected by the…
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A Noble Tradition Weston Noble Winter 1995 Mosaic
A Noble Tradition Weston Noble Winter 1995 Mosaic, the video magazine of the ELCA What is the role of choral music in Lutheran worship? Mosaic profiles Weston Noble, director of Luther College’s Nordic Choir and popular guest conductor. Generations of high school and college students and countless congregations and audiences have been affected by the…
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A Gift to Children, Davey and Goliath
Back in 1995 I produced Mosaic, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. In this story, we looked back at Davey and Goliath, the successful children’s television series that began airing in 1961. We interviewed R. Marshall Stross, former executive director of Davey and Goliath, for the Lutheran Church in America. We…
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Her Words Took Wing: Caronline Iverson Ackerman
This short documentary about Caroline Iverson Ackerman was produced in 1995 for Mosaic, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The following biography is from the Harvard University Library Papers of Caroline Iverson Ackerman. Caroline Iverson Ackerman was born in 1918 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Jacob Engval and Ella Dorothea (Schmidt) Iverson.…
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The IMCK Story
In 1987 Julie Frakes and I produced this documentary about the Institut Médical Chrétien du Kasaï (IMCK) in Tshikaji, near Kananga in rural Zaire. Today, Zaire is known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the time I was a young producer working with WCFC TV-38 in Chicago and still had a lot to…