Category: Faith Based Production
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The Story of the ELCA
How did the ELCA start? Find out in this 30 minute documentary from MOSAIC. The video features rare footage and interviews with key leaders from the ELCA’s three predecessor church bodies, the Lutheran Church in America, the American Lutheran Church and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. Included in the program are portions of interviews…
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Africans, the real Church growth experts
Fall 2001 MOSAIC, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Christianity is both an old and new religion in Africa. According to Acts 9 Christianity has been in Ethiopia from the beginning, while it has been in Tanzania for only a hundred years. Both churches, however, have something in common: rapid growth.…
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Building on Promises
Kairos and Associates asked me to help Resurrection Lutheran Church south of Indianapolis, Indiana raise funds to expand their church building. It was fun to spend time with a healthy, growing, well managed congregation with an eye toward mission.
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Family Empowerment Center
www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes Productions is a full service video production company specializing in single camera, documentary productions for corporate and non-profit clients. www.frakesproductions.com
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Quiet Strength: The Deaconess Community, ELCA
Quiet Strength is a short documentary I produced in for the Deaconess Community, ELCA. The video looks at the history of the community its role in Church and society and the future of the organization. The video is narrated by the Rev. Barbara Berry-Bailey. www.frakesproductions.com Part 1. Part 2.
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Feed the Roots of Leadership
Feed the Roots of Leadership is a vision to support seminary education, campus ministry and outdoor ministry in both the eastern and western parts of the Upstate New York Synod of the ELCA.
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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 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…