Tag: Video
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Together in Mission: Haiti
There is a new Lutheran Church in Haiti. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Haiti is a growing body of believers with 12 congregations scattered across Haiti. The Florida-Bahamas Synod of the ELCA asked me to put this video together for the 2010 Synod Assembly.
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Clearing Rubble, Redemption Lutheran, Carrefour, Haiti
Members of Redemption Lutheran Church in Carrefour, Haiti gather to clear rubble from their destroyed church building. The structure collapsed during the January 12, 2010 earthquake that hit Haiti. Fortunately, no one was in the building when it collapsed.
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Eskimo Testimonies
Every now and then, I think back on a visit Jim Quattrocki, Bob Elliott and I made to Alaska’s Seward Peninsula in September, 1994. Eskimo Testimonies is a 7-minute video we produced for Mosaic, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. We spent 12 days touring Eskimo villages like Brevig Mission, Wales…
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Celebrating Three Years in Business!
March 28, 2010 marks the three-year anniversary of Tim Frakes Productions. Had I known three years ago that the global economy was going to tank and the U.S. would plunge into it’s deepest economic recession since the 1930’s I probably would have stayed put. Thank God for my ignorance! Today there are six of us…
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Religion and Ethics Weekly: Haiti
At the Haiti/Dominican Republic border, I ran into Gail Fendley a producer with Religion & Ethics Weekly on PBS. Gail and her crew were producing a story on relief work from the Dominican side of the border. We exchanged business cards and I was able to share footage I recorded in Haiti which they used…
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Haiti, Three Weeks After: Chris Herlinger Reports
My friend Chris Herlinger from Church World Service and I produced this story in Port Au Prince, Haiti, three weeks after the January 2010 earthquake. Port Au Prince, Haiti February, 2010 by Chris Herlinger In the nearly three weeks since the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake, Haiti feels like a desert bereft of much that makes…
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Faithful Travel with Rick Steves
My friend Rick Steves is on the cover of the February Christian Century. Check out his interview and then check out the video I did with him a while back titled: Faithful Travel. The video links Rick’s travel philosophy with his faith.
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Food Distribution Gone Bad
Here is what it looks like when a food and tent distribution goes bad. This scene was recorded in Gressier, a village about 20 km outside Port Au Prince, two weeks after the 2010 Earthquake.
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Building Our Future: In The City For Good
This is a video I produced for Incarnate Word Lutheran Church in Rochester, New York. This urban congregation is beginning a capital campaign through Kairos and Associates. They asked me to tell their story and record testimonials. Part 1. Part 2.
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Brookfield Zoo, Holiday Magic
Each December, the Brookfield Zoo, Brookfield, Illinois hosts Holiday Magic, a festival of lights, ice and animals.