Friday, December 2, 2016, I recorded Illinois Senator Richard (Dick) Durbin at the Chicago Leadership Prayer Breakfast.

The program airs twice. December 18 and December 25 at noon on ABC-7.2 Live Well Channel.
In his remarks, Durbin challenged assembled Chicago business and religious leaders to remember “…the 40,000 people who awakened this morning in our state of Illinois in fear. 40,000 dreamers. Forty thousand young people protected by President Obama’s order. They are undocumented. They are in America. They know no other county. They were brought here as children. and they are asking for a chance to be a part of our future. 40,000 in Illinois, 740,000 nation wide. It will take prayers and good work to make their dreams a reality. Let’s remember them in our prayers this morning.”

Be sure to watch the next Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries, Sanctuary now on the ABC Live Well Network. Greater Chicago Broadcast has partnered with the Chicago Sunday Evening Club to present their annual Chicago Leadership Prayer Breakfast featuring keynote speaker Cardinal Blase Cupich.
The program airs twice. December 18 and December 25 at noon on ABC-7.2 Live Well Channel.
In Chicago, the Live Well Network is on the following channels:
Over the air: 7.2, 7.3
Charter: 608, 968
Comcast: IL- 193, 217, 244, 345; IN- 217, 345
Kraus Cable TV Systems: 45
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RCN: 618
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It’s been a busy and very interesting winter and and spring and I would like to share some of my experiences with you and extend an invitation to watch two of my projects on broadcast television here in Chicago.

This winter I’ve been working with the Chicago Sunday Evening Club to produce a one hour broadcast television documentary titled: After Prison, Responding with Faith. My friends Jim Quattrocki, Darren Harrison and I teamed up to tell three stories of faith communities that are reaching out to ex-offenders. The program will air on Thursday, April 3, 9:00 p.m. on WTTW PBS, Chicago. After Prison, Responding with Faith will be rebroadcast on WTTW Prime on Friday, April 4th at 3pm, and Sunday, April 6th at 6pm.

I’ve also been busy telling stories about Chicago’s Christians from the East with Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries. Western Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, often overlook and even disregard their Eastern brothers and sisters, even when those Christians suffer persecution and war, become refugees, and then live among us.

In this documentary, we introduce Eastern Christians from Iraq, Turkey and Egypt who fled persecution and war in their homelands and made their way to Chicago.

We go inside their homes and places of worship, and hear stories about a rich, ancient Christianity that continues to thrive in a new world. Sanctuary, Chicago’s Christians from the East airs Sunday, March 30th, 11:00 am on ABC7 Chicago.

In early March, Intersections International invited me to return to Pakistan to film stories about the US-Pakistan Interreligious Consortium. UPIC seeks to cooperatively set an action agenda toward policy change and build bridges of faith-based understanding and respect between our two countries.

Ironically, on my way to Islamabad, I flew directly over the head of my son who is currently on deployment in Afghanistan while serving in the United States Army! What are the odds?

Later this year I’ll be working with Peter Mayer, lead guitar player with Jimmy Buffett on a new music project for Lutheran Men in Mission. The Chicago Sunday Evening Club has also asked me to produce a new WTTW documentary on families divided by the Immigration Reform Debate and hopefully many other exciting projects that tell stories of faith and positive change.

Thank you to all those clients who place their trust in me. I look forward to great things to come. And, as always, check out my website, Facebook, Twitter and Linked-in feeds for on-line versions of my projects.

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Sanctuary: Refugee Chirstmas is a documentary produced by the Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministry and Tim Frakes Productions.

Follow three Chicago area refugee families as they share their stories and reflect on Christmas in America. With feature commentary on the scriptural theme of displacement by Rev. Phil Blackwell, First United Methodist Church, Chicago Temple, Rev. Lillian Daniels, First Congregational Church of Glen Ellyn and Rev. Bassam Abdallah, The First United Lutheran Church, Hammond, Indiana. The program aired on Sunday, December 30, 12:30 p.m, ABC 7 Chicago

Here is a promo:

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ABC, WLS-TV, Channel 7 Chicago broadcast a program I produced during the May NATO Summit on Sunday, June 18, 2012. Sanctuary, a production of the Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries is an in-depth documentary program on issues and ideas at the intersection of life and faith that airs every Sunday morning at 11:30 a.m. This edition, titled: Ethics Summit on the G-8 and NATO, is a panel discussion with:

– Philip Blackwell, Senior Pastor of First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple.
– William George, Professor of Theology and Director of the core curriculum at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois.
– Robin W. Lovin, Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University.
– Bruce Rittenhouse, Professor of Ethics at Aurora University and McCormick Theological Seminary.
– William Schweiker, Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago and also the Director of the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion.
– Cristina Traina, Professor of Religious Studies at Northwestern University in
Evanston, Illinois.

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