Edongo Band, Kitgum, Northern Uganda
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Jim Quattrocki and I were in Kitgum, Northern Uganda, recording a story at the Anglican Cathedral. I can’t remember if this is out of his camera or mine. Either way, it was a great day and beautiful music.
Tags: Africa, Church, Faith, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel, Uganda, Video
Flight to Bukoba Tanzania
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Wednesday, May 23, 2001 Jim Quattrocki, Kevin Jacobson and I arrive at an air strip in Moshi, Tanzania and board a single engine, fixed landing gear plane operated by African Inland Mission. Andy, the pilot, is a tall, slender American from Boulder, Colorado. It rained the night before – now the clouds began to lift and we took off, flying around Mt. Kilimanjaro and her more rugged sister Mt. Meru. We then head out over the world famous Serengeti Plain, Ngorongoro Crater and Odoval Gorge.
The ancient green grasslands are dotted with huts and animals. The route takes us west across the Serengeti to the southern tip of Lake Victoria, the source of the Nile River and on in to Bukoba, Tanzania on the western shore.
Tags: Africa, African Inland Missions, Bukoba Tanzania, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel
Proud of my Ugandan Friend Emmy
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Africa, Education, Interesting People, News, Peace and Justice, Tim Frakes Productions
I first met Akoch Emmanuel (Emmy), managing an internet cafe in Kitgum, Uganda in 2006. At the time, Northern Uganda was in the final stages of a 21 year civil war that saw hundreds of thousands forced into Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps. More than 20,000 children were abducted from villages and forced to join militants as sex slaves or soldiers. To avoid capture, children would leave their defenseless villages at night and congregate in city parks, back alleys and spartan night shelters.
Emmy lived with his mother and siblings on the outskirts of Kitgum. A bright student, Emmy worked his way into a management position at a store-front cafe on the main street of this dusty, provincial town. Not only did he run the store, he also served as an IT educator for friends and older Ugandan customers unfamiliar with the internet and computer technology.
After high school, Emmy enrolled in Gulu University and studied computer science. Despite considerable financial struggles, the burden of being the oldest male child, (Emmy’s father passed away several years earlier), theft of his computer and concerns about his mother’s health, Emmy emerged from Gulu with a bachelors degree.
Today Emmy serves as the IT manager for St. Josephs Hospital. In June, 2011, he launched their new web site. Check it out! http://www.sjhkitgum.org/
Emmy is a great example of the kind of talent, vision and energy possessed by many young Africans. He is a sign of hope in a world in need of something to hold on to.
Tags: Africa, Education, Justice, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel
Raise Your Voice
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Africa, Carribean, Causes, Disaster, Faith Based Production, Peace and Justice
This is a music video in support of CROP Hunger Walks. Music by singer/songwriter K.C. Clifford. Following the January 2010 earthquakes in Haiti, I recorded footage that Church World Service used in this video. I even noticed a shot that Jim Quattrocki and I recorded in Tanzania more than a decade ago. Great to see this stuff put to good use!
Tags: Africa, Church, Haiti, Hunger, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel, Video
Acholi Return to Farming with LWF Support
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The Lutheran World Federation is helping thousands of Acholi farmers return to traditional village life following 22 years of rebel warfare and child abduction in Northern Uganda.
Tags: Acholi, Africa, ELCA, Farming, Kitgum, LWF, Tim Frakes Productions, Uganda, Video
Ready to Forgive: An African Story of Grace
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Africa, Faith Based Production, News, Peace and Justice, Promo
Ready to Forgive: An African Story of Grace Begins 10/18/2009
Vision and Values – ABC
Presented by the National Council of Churches USA; Produced by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Beginning October 18 through December, 2009, ABC stations across the US will be airing a documentary I produced about forgiveness. Even though the Acholi people of Northern Uganda were living in a war zone, they can teach the rest of the world a lesson about forgiveness. More than 300,000 people were packed into camps for safety. Despite all this, the Acholi people are ready to forgive the rebels who caused them so much pain.
They have a tradition known as Mato Oput or “drinking the bitter herbs.” When two parties come together and taste the bitter herb, they sense each others pain. Then, the broken relationship is restored. Join us for an hour-long trip into faith, forgiveness and reconciliation, an African story of grace.
Visit http://www.interfaithbroadcasting.com/vv.aspx for more information or air date and time in your area. ABC stations have a window in which to broadcast this program through December 2009.
Ready to Forgive: An African Story of Grace is a production of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America www.elca.org/readytoforgive for the National Council of Churches and the Interfaith Broadcast Commission.
Tags: ELCA, Forgiveness, frakes, Ready to Forgive: An African Story of Grace, Tim Frakes Productions, Uganda, Video
New LWF Office Ready to Open in Kitugum, Uganda
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Tags: Africa, Tim Frakes Productions, Uganda, Video
Returning to Uganda
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Sunday morning after a meeting in New York with Intersections International about an upcoming shoot in the Middle East, I leave for a short return visit to Uganda for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Two years ago I produced a documentary about the Acholi people in Northern Uganda and their quest to forgive a rebel movement that killed thousands and forced them into internally displaced person camps for more than twenty years. Here is a link:
http://archive.elca.org/readytoforgive/
The ELCA now has an opportunity to have this program air on ABC television this winter. I will be returning to Uganda to update the program and add an additional six minutes. Since the original program, the Acholi people have returned to their villages. But a major drought has struck the region. Crops have failed and people face widespread hunger.
Look for updates here and on my Facebook Page.
Tags: Africa, ELCA, Forgiveness, Lutheran, Tim Frakes Productions, Uganda, Video
Eye Mission Malawi
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Africa, Faith Based Production, Non-Profit, Peace and Justice, Spiritual Journey, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel
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This video is one of eleven testimonials produced for the Northwest Synod of Wisconsin Book of Faith initiative. The Northwest Synod of Wisconsin has a strong companion relationship with Lutherans in the African nation of Malawi. In this segment, we learn about an eye clinic mission organized by members of Central Lutheran in Chippewa Falls.
Tags: Book of Faith, Central Lutheran, Eye Clinic, Malawi
Joseph Garang Atem Address
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This is an address by The Right Reverend Joseph Garang Atem, Bishop of the Diocese of Renk, Episcopal Church of Sudan, recorded Sunday, November 16, 2008 at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church Glen Ellyn, Illinois.