Category: Education
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Crick Crack: Let’s Go to Haiti!
Crick Crack: Let’s Go to Haiti! This video was created to help Sunday school age children learn about one of the poorest nations on earth. My friend Stephen Padre and I recorded much of this footage in a village called Thoite. The video was produced for the ELCA World Hunger Appeal. Tim Frakes Productions is…
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Exorcism in Madagascar
I recorded this footage at a spiritual revival camp, known as a Toby, in Southern Madagascar. The Nenilava Toby is one of the largest camps in Madagascar. The camp is part of the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Madagascar (ELMC). The ELMC has a unique approach to spiritual and physical care of people…
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Understanding Fundamentalism
The influence of fundamentalist Christianity is felt in every walk of American life. This program helps viewers better understand the story behind the rise of fundamentalism and the later evangelical movement, so that Christians, liberal and conservative, can find ways to open doors of dialogue and ecumenical fellowship. The program is the final in a…
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Children’s Peace Camp in Ramallah
Love Thy Neighbor The Living nonviolence peace camp is a ministry of Love Thy Neighbor, an organization dedicated to provide educational resources and programs about the plight of Palestinians in Palestine/Israel and to support both peoples’ deepening commitment to nonviolence as the way to bring a just peace for themselves and their neighbors.
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El Yunque, the Caribbean National Forest
Back in the early 2,000’s I was in Puerto Rico shooting a story and stopped by El Yunque, the Caribbean National Forest. This national treasure is located in the Luquillo Mountains on the eastern edge of the Island of Puerto Rico. The forest is the only tropical rain forest in the U.S. National Forest System.…
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The Life of Apostle Paul with Rick Steves
I recorded this documentary in 2004 in Greece and Turkey while working for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Travel expert and faithful Lutheran Rick Steves came along as on-camera host. Rick also did most of the work on the script. Jim Parks edited the footage. About two thousand years ago Roman soldiers executed Jesus…
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Ready to Forgive: An African Story of Grace
Jim Quattrocki and I produced this documentary in Northern Uganda in October, 2006. Kevin Jacobson helped with logistics. Jim Parks edited the program and wrote some of the music. This is an African story of God’s amazing grace. Northern Uganda has been at war for twenty years. Those most affected, a tribal people known as…
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The Story of Lutheran Revival
This 23-minute video, narrated by former ELCA Presiding Bishop H. George Anderson, tracks prayer and revival in the Bible, in Lutheran history, and in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America today. In this video, viewers hear from: – Bible scholars from ELCA colleges and seminaries who tell the history of God’s reviving work in the…
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Beyond Tsunami
This is a video I put together after the Tsunami. My pals, Jim Quattrocki, Kevin Jacobson and I went to Tamil Nadu, India one month after the big Tsunami disaster on Christmas, 2005. Jim did most of the videography. Some of it is mine. The actual disater footage comes from a wedding guy we met…
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Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
This is a new image video I helped produce for the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. LSTC is one of seven seminaries affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Susan Hague from Spring Creative wrote the script and produced. Jim Parks edited. Most of the camera work is mine. www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes Productions…