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Please join Tim Frakes Productions Inc. and the Lombard Historical Society for an exclusive premier showing of the new documentary, Sheldon Peck: Portrait of an Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times this Thursday night in Lombard, Illinois. Admission is free.

The Sheldon Peck Homestead will be open for tours from 6:00-6:45 p.m., followed by the film at 7:00 p.m. at the Lombard Community Building across the street.

Tim Frakes, of Tim Frakes Productions, Inc., a Lombard resident and business, produced the documentary and will introduce the film and entertain questions after the screening.

Board members and staff from the Lombard Historical Society will also be available for questions regarding Sheldon Peck, the documentary and the upcoming exhibit of original Sheldon Peck paintings, Sheldon Peck: Footsteps of His Life.

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What A Fellowship – Rev. Clay Evans & the AARC Mass Choir from Tim Frakes on Vimeo.

How about some Gospel music! The Rev. Dr. Clay Evans, Pastor of the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church was a major Gosple recording artist in the 1970’s and 80’s. Evans bought airtime on TV-38 and made regular appearances during telethons. It’s all part of a new documentary I am producing on WCFC TV-38, once the largest independent Christian television station in America.

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Sheldon Peck, Portrait of an Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times is now complete! A 28 minute broadcast version of the documentary began airing on the Live Well Network in Chicago every Sunday in December, 2018 at noon. Check local listings for Sanctuary, Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries.

Here is a link to the broadcast version:
http://www.frakesproductions.com/2018/sheldon-peck-an-ordinary-man-in-extraordinary-times/

The full, 37 minute documentary will be offered beginning in January, 2019 on DVD for a $20 donation to the Lombard Historical Society.

Here is the script for the documentary.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R4SVOKIDCro9UOckPP0HYlifiMzZmHyytfqIEJKoPHs/edit?usp=sharing

Sheldon Peck, Portrait of an Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times is the is a story infused with a humanity that resonates today. Largely forgotten in the decades after his death in 1868, Sheldon Peck and his legacy have seen a revival and renewed appreciation that recognizes his talent, passion, courage and vision. It’s a story of American Western expansion in the days of manifest destiny, and how one man embraced the important issues of his day and was not afraid to speak out or get personally involved where he saw injustice. “What Sheldon and his spouse Harriett Corey Peck did, the way they are sharing their values…. It spreads” says Sarah Richardt from the Lombard Historical Society.

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Today was fun. Recorded an interview with Kenneth B. Morris at the American Writers Museum in Chicago.
Morris descends from two of the most influential names in American history: he is the great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass (he looks just like him) and the great-great-grandson of Booker T. Washington.

It’s part of a new documentary I’m creating with Sarah Richardt, Executive Director of the Lombard Historical Society, on the life of primitive American portrait artist, radical abolitionist, and temperance crusader Sheldon Peck.

Thanks Jim Quattrocki for running camera. You are a peach.

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In this edition of Sanctuary I produced for Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries, we meet the Alkhoury family, and take a closer look at growing evidence of widespread persecution of religious minorities, as well as efforts by faith communities here in Chicago, the United States government, and the United Nations to find ways to support and protect some of the worlds most vulnerable people.

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We recorded stories with CTS graduates here in Chicago, Montgomery, Alabama and Portland, Maine.
CTS proactively takes on issues of social justice and helps individuals discern and evolve their faith for the future. Whether your interest is in ministry, social justice, community activism, or serious religious scholarship, CTS will take you to the Next.

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In 2009 I worked with the Herald of Truth covering these churches. It was a fascinating look into a semi-indigenous Christian faith culture. After Castro came to power in 1959, United States based evangelistic activity largely came to a halt. USA based Churches of Christ, however, continued to work in Cuba through Herald of Truth and within the island nation through small, local Church of Christ communities. Apparently the Churches of Christ’s non-denominational approach to organization (no central office or hierarchy) failed to raise red flags with the Castro government. Monroy’s Herald of Truth radio broadcast are still popular among Cuba’s growing evangelical minority.

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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 to AVH for dialysis.

Kalandia is the main checkpoint between the northern West Bank and Jerusalem. The checkpoint is used by the Israeli military to control Palestinian access to East Jerusalem and Israel. Israel requires Palestinians to have permits to pass through the checkpoint to East Jerusalem and Israel for their work, medical care, education or for religious reasons. Kalandia is only 8 miles from Augusta Victoria Hospital, but the checkpoint process often takes 2-3 hours each way. Without dialysis, Abu Sbieh would perish.

Augusta Victoria Hospital AVH is the first and only hospital to provide radiation therapy for cancer patients in the Palestinian territories and is the only medical facility in the West Bank offering pediatric kidney dialysis.

The Rev. Eric C. Shafer and I recorded this story in February, 2016.

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