Tag: Video
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People’s Resource Center YouTube Channel
The People’s Resource Center, an organization that brings neighbors together to respond to hunger and poverty in DuPage County, Illinois, is making the most of the video segments I helped them produced this spring by creating a YouTube Channel. The channel offers PRC a place where clients, supporters and the wider community can easily access…
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Immigration Protest Chicago
Tuesday, May 15, 2012. I took a morning Metra train downtown to hunt for early NATO protestors. A demonstration was scheduled for Federal Plaza. Apparently organizers couldn’t get their act together and the place was empty. Armed with my camera and Twitter, I learned that an immigration protest was brewing over on W. Van Buren…
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What is Help? A Testimony by Valerie Mossman-Celestin
Valerie Mossman-Celestin is the Executive Director of Haitian Artisans for Peace International, in Musac, Haiti. HAPI is a capacity building project funded in part by the United Methodist Committee On Relief. Valerie shared her testimony with me while on a visit to Musac in 2011. It is a spiritual journey that began with the question,…
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Seminex: Memories of a Church Divided
This is a preview of a 2015 documentary about a divide in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in the 1970’s. Order a DVD of the full, 42 minute SEMINEX documentary today for $19. Our Indigogo campaign to raise funds for our next documentary, God’s Glory, Neighbor’s Good: The Story of Pietism ended on March 10,…
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Morton Arboretum in Spring
Morton Arboretum in Spring Took a bicycle ride through Morton Arboretum on a lovely spring afternoon. “Halcyon Bluff” by E. Ryan Goodman
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People’s Resource Center, Empowerment
People’s Resource Center community exists “to respond to basic human needs, promote dignity and justice, and create a future of hope and opportunity for the residents of DuPage County, Illinois through discovering and sharing personal and community resources.”
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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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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…