Tag: Faith
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30 Good Minutes Spiritual Jouney, Rick Steves
Click on the above picture to view a story I produced about my friend, travel writer and PBS Travel host Rick Steves. The story was produced for the Chicago Sunday Evening Club‘s 30 Good Minutes program. 30 Good Minutes is an award-winning weekly broadcast on WTTW Channel 11 (PBS Chicago) and in syndication in other…
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Kari Olsen Faith Testimony
Kari Olsen is a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Davenport, Iowa. Kari had a strong faith in God before she went blind and had both legs amputated. Now, she looks for ways to honor God though gifts of service, using her mind and her mouth. www.frakesproductions.com
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Saul Ebema: An African Faith Odyssey
After his family was murdered in Southern Sudan’s second civil war, Saul Ebema began an odyssey and profound spiritual journey that took him from life as an orphaned African child soldier to seminary at the Northern Seminary in Lombard, Illinois. www.frakesproductions.com
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The Best Way to Rock and Roll
This is story from my archives. Back in 1998 my buddy Jim Parks and I did a story on Jim and Peter Mayer. The Mayer brothers are the sons of Lutheran missionaries. They grew up in Tamil Nadu, India. Today they play bass and lead guitar for Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band. www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes…
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New Rick Steves/ELCA Web Site
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has launched a new flash video web site featuring five Rick Steves videos. Faithful Travel features five programs produced by Tim Frakes for the ELCA including; The Life of Apostle Peter, Faithful Travels, The Life of Apostle Paul, Opening the Door to Luther and Weaving a Global Neighborhood.…
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Zam Zam, A Missionary Odyssey
Zamzam a Missionary Odyssey Zam Zam, A Missionary Odyssey is a 1992 documentary I produced for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America while I worked for Video Impressions, a production company in Aurora, Illinois. Jim Quattrocki did most of the camera work on interviews recorded in Massachusetts, Kansas and Chicago. Zam Zam, A Missionary Odyssey…
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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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Opening the Door to Luther with Rick Steves
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Opening the Door to Luther with Rick Steves is a documentary I produced for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America with author, travel expert and PBS host of Rick Steves Europe in September, 2000. Steves takes us to areas of Germany known as Lutherlands. From Eisleben, where Luther was born, to Wittenberg where he taught…
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Duende Dance Theater, Federal Plaza, Chicago
The Duende Dance Theater performing on Federal Plaza, Chicago as part of a Sacred Space gathering organized by the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions. June 10, 2012
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Opening The Door to Luther Production Blog Day 1
Wednesday, September 20 Traveling alone, I set off for a visit to Lutherland. The purpose of the trip is to produce a documentary on the life of Martin Luther in the German reformation cities of Eisenach, Erfurt, Eisleben Coburg and Wittenberg. Martin Luther, of course, was the 16th century Augustinian monk who sparked the Protestant…