Category: Tim Frakes Productions
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289,754 ELCA YouTube Views
Recently I took a peak at the Youtube channel for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Back in the late 1990’s while I still worked for the ELCA Churchwide offices, our Department for Communication began uploading programs to what was then called, Google Video. After Google purchased Youtube in 2006 for $1.65 billion, Google Video…
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Sanctuary: Worker Justice
Meet three three dynamic women advocating for justice in the workplace and in immigrant communities. Kim Bobo is the Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, CJ Hawking is the Executive Director of Arise Chicago and Elena Segura works with the Office for Immigrant Affairs in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Sanctuary, is an in-depth documentary program that…
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Sanctuary: Worker Justice Promo
Tune into Sanctuary this Easter Sunday at 1:00 p.m. for a profile of three dynamic women advocating for justice in the workplace and in immigrant communities. This is a production of Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries and Tim Frakes Productions.
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Red-tailed Hawk in the Rain
The Hidden Lake Forest Preserve is across the road from our house. Wearing rubber boots, I took a Sunday afternoon stroll in the rain and rapidly melting snow. The reward was a performance by this Red-tailed Hawk. He (or she, I’m not sure) was perched on a small tree by the lake. Moments after spotting…
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Presence Health: Monarch Ball Video
Here are three stories I produced for Presence Health, the largest Catholic health system based in Illinois. The stories focus on mental health, the home-bound elderly and emergency care. At the heart of Presence Health are five congregations of Catholic women religious who came together to co-sponsor a fully integrated health system: Franciscan Sisters of…
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Immigration Prayer Vigil
Today, I recorded a weekly 7:15 am Prayer Vigil to end deportations and for Immigration Reform at the Broadview Immigrant Detention Center 1930 S. Beach St., Broadview, IL. I must say, that I’ve never encountered such a polite police force. The Broadview cops where cheerful, friendly, helpful and pleasant to work with, despite the freezing…
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Celebrating Six Years!
Exactly 6 years ago today, friends and colleagues at the ELCA Churchwide office bid me “farewell”, beginning a new chapter with Tim Frakes Productions. What a wonderful ride it has been! Deep thanks to my family and all the clients, friends and mentors here in Chicagoland, across the United States and around the world, who…
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Leaders for The Next, Barb Bolsen
Mike Jordan at 31 Lengths asked me to produce this testimony about Barb Bolsen, a graduate of Chicago Theological Seminary.
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Walter Sve, Lake Superior Fisherman
Back in 1999 I recorded this story with Walter Sve, a 3rd generation North Shore Lake Superior commercial fisherman based near Two Harbors, Minnesota. This story was recorded as part of the Winter 2000 edition of Mosaic, the video magazine of the ELCA. Frank Imhoff helped me with production. Jim Parks edited the post production.