Category: Tim Frakes Productions
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John H. Tietjen on Lutheran Identity
While working a new documentary about Concordia Seminary in Exile (later Christ Seminary-Seminex), I ran across this sound bite which I recorded in 2002 for an earlier program about the history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. John H. Tietjen (1928 -2004) was a Lutheran clergyman, theologian, and church leader best known for his…
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Shalom Singers: I Count on God
Valerie Mossman-Celestin Executive Director of Haitian Artisans for Peace Internatinal (HAPI) asked me to produce three music videos in Musac, Haiti with the Shalom Singers. HAPI is an UMCOR funded fair trade artisan co-op focused on spirituality and creativity. The Shalom Singers are a group of young adults associated with HAPI. This video was recorded…
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Shalom Singers: He is Marvelous
Valerie Mossman-Celestin Executive Director of Haitian Artisans for Peace Internatinal (HAPI) asked me to produce three music videos in Musac, Haiti with the Shalom Singers. HAPI is an UMCOR funded fair trade artisan co-op focused on spirituality and creativity. The Shalom Singers are a group of young adults associated with HAPI. This video was recorded…
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Shalom Singers: Jesus of Nazareth
Valerie Mossman-Celestin Executive Director of Haitian Artisans for Peace Internatinal (HAPI) asked me to produce three music videos in Musac, Haiti with the Shalom Singers. HAPI is an UMCOR funded fair trade artisan co-op focused on spirituality and creativity. The Shalom Singers are a group of young adults associated with HAPI. This video was recorded…
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People’s Resource Center, Basic Needs
Poverty in DuPage County may not look like what you or I might expect. In this story, we meet a college educated mother of five, who found herself in need. Since 1975, People’s Resource Center has been bringing neighbors together to respond to hunger and poverty in DuPage, County, Illinois. Services that meet people’s basic…
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Christian Family Services
Christian Family Services is a non-profit child-placing agency licensed in Missouri and Illinois and supported by several area churches and many generous donors. Though all foster parents, adoptive parents, and staff are Christian, services are provided to foster children, adoptive children, natural parents, and counseling clients without regard to religious affiliation. CFS asked me to…
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People’s Resouce Center: The Arts
Since 1975, People’s Resource Center has been bringing neighbors together to respond to hunger and poverty in DuPage, County, Illinois. PRC offers a variety of services and empowerment programs including an innovative Art program that helps adults and children develop self-esteem and creativity.
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Moon Setting, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Arrived at the office early to find this waiting for me out front.
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Fighting Poverty in DuPage County
This March, Tim Frakes Productions will team with People’s Resource Center in Wheaton, Illinois to produce a new video about that organizations work. PRC has been fighting poverty in DuPage County since 1975. Today, more than 31,000 DuPage residents rely on the PRC for help each year. It will be an honor to work with…
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People of Faith Publicity
People of Faith: Christianity in America is getting some local media attention these days. Wheaton College issued a news release this week. Also, Jane Charmelo, a reporter for the Lombardian, our home-town newspaper, ran the following piece in it’s February 15 issue. ‘People of Faith’ explores church history – by Jane Charmelo, Lombardian and Villa…