Cook, Write, Pray
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Evangelism and Outreach, Faith Based Production, Interesting People, Pro Bono, Spiritual Journey, Tim Frakes Productions
Despite challenges, Tom Christensen has learned to trust God in every circumstance. Here is the testimony of a single parent, letter-carrier turned chef, author and cancer survivor. Tom is a member of Lombard Bible Church, a part of the Christian and Missionary Alliance.
Tags: Bible, Cancer, Church, Cooking, Faith, Illinois, Lombard, Spiritual Journey, Testimony, Tim Frakes Productions, Video
2011 Year in Review: Frakesproductions.com
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Interesting People, Interesting Places, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel
Here is a random collection representing a few of the images I recorded during the busy 2011 production year. Locations included Haiti (twice), Cuba, Dominican Republic, Illinois, Texas, Colorado, Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana, and Ohio. Music by JS Bach, Mass in B minor Dona nobis pacem (BWV 232).
For more detail, here are links to most of work I did this year.
- People of Faith: Christianity in America
- Church World Service, Haiti
- Ascension Catholic School, Oak Park, IL
- Herald of Truth Image Video
- Rural Community Assistance Partnership
- Bethesda Lutheran Communities
- Lutheran Life Communities, Gifts of Grace
- West Chicago Printing Company 100 Years
- Haitian Artist for Peace International
- The Bread Shed
- St. Stephen Martyr Lutheran Church, Canton, OH
- Alianza Church, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Simply Fragrant, Christian and Missionary Alliance
- Herald of Truth Cuba churches of Christs
- 30 Good Minutes Spiritual Journeys
Tags: Dona nobis pacem, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel, Video
Bethesda Lutheran Communities, Boy Family
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Dissabilities, Interesting People, Tim Frakes Productions
My friend and colleague from our days together at the ELCA Lutheran Center, Sue Edison-Swift, asked me to help her new employer, Bethesda Lutheran Communities, tell stories about their work. The mission of Bethesda Lutheran Communities is to enhance the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that share the good news of Jesus Christ.
This is the story of Leigh Boy and his parents. Leigh lives in a Bethesda group home near Houston, Texas. His parents, now older adults, talk about the importance of knowing that their son, Leigh, is well cared for now, and will continue to be well cared for after they can no longer take care of him themselves.
Jan Nowak, a producer and communicator with Bethesda, coordinated the production and conducted the interviews.
Tags: Bethesda, Disabilities, Lutheran, Tim Frakes Productions, Video
Carrie Newcomer – 30 Good Minutes, Spiritual Journey
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Chicago Sunday Evening Club, Faith Based Production, Interesting People, Music, Peace and Justice, Spiritual Journey, Tim Frakes Productions, women
This is a spiritual journey I produced for 30 Good Minutes, WTTW Channel 11, PBS, Chicago. Singer and songwriter, Carrie Newcomer, drawn to the social justice and peace focus of the Quakers, writes songs about the sacred in the ordinary things of life.
Tags: Faith, Music, Peace, Tim Frakes Productions, women
Sayira Khokhar Spiritual Journey, 30 Good Minutes
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Chicago Sunday Evening Club, Interesting People, Spiritual Journey, Tim Frakes Productions, women
Sayira Khokhar – 30 Good Minutes – Spiritual Journey
This is a spiritual journey segment I produced for 30 Good Minutes, WTTW Channel 11, PBS, Chicago. Sayira is a young woman who grew up in Chicago and tasted the backlash of anti Muslim sentiment in the years following 9/11.
Tags: Faith, Islam, Tim Frakes Productions, women
Anna Hauge, Gifts of Grace
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Disaster, Education, Faith Based Production, History, Interesting People, Tim Frakes Productions, women
Here is a story I produced for Lutheran Life Communities Foundation. Anna Hauge was a Navy nurse on board the USS Tranquility, the hospital ship that rescued the survivors of the USS Indianapolis disaster in August, 1945. Anna is one of those unsung heroes who lived through an epic chapter in American history.
Tags: Education, History, Tim Frakes Productions, women
HAPI: Madame Gabriel
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Carribean, Education, Faith Based Production, Interesting People, Interesting Places, Tim Frakes Productions, women
My second visit to Haiti in 2011 was with Haitian Artisans for Peace International (HAPI). One of the many projects HAPI has going is Nouvel Etwal (New Stars). The New Stars help young Haitian girls develop self esteem and share their stories through dance. One afternoon we packed the girls in a van and drove to a nearby village to meet with a group of older adult women. One of these women, is a former professional carnival dancer. Many years have passed since Madame Gabriel danced on the big stage, but its clear from this video that she has moves and grace.
Tags: Art, Haiti, Tim Frakes Productions, Video, women
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
Parker Palmer Spiritual Journey, 30 Good Minutes
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Chicago Sunday Evening Club, Education, Interesting People, Spiritual Journey
This is a spiritual journey segment I recorded and produced for 30 Good Minutes. Renowned educator and Quaker writer, Parker Palmer, says one of the biggest things he has learned in life is that the direction of the spiritual journey is not upward but downward, to what Paul Tillich called the ground of being.
Tags: Education, Faith, Spiritual Journey, Tim Frakes Productions
“I begged him not to die.”
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Interesting People, Spiritual Journey, Tim Frakes Productions
This is a story about grief I recorded in June 2010 for Hope for Life, a ministry of Herald of Truth in Abilene, Texas.