Eskimo Testimonies
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Faith Based Production, Interesting Places, Spiritual Journey, Travel
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 and Shishmaref, meeting its people and recording their stories.
Tags: Alaska, Education, ELCA, Eskimo, Seward Peninsula, Spiritual Journey, Tim Frakes Productions, Video
Faithful Travel with Rick Steves
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Faith Based Production, Travel
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.
Tags: ELCA, Rick Steves, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel, Video
Blankets for Haiti’s Dissabled
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Carribean, Faith Based Production, News, Peace and Justice
Caring for people with disabilities is a priority for Church World Service and the Act Alliance as Haiti rebuilds following the January 2010 earthquake.
Tags: ELCA, Haiti, Tim Frakes Productions
Advocating for Haiti’s Disabled
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Carribean, Disaster, Tim Frakes Productions
Haiti’s disabled population is particularly vulnerable following the January 2010 earthquake. Church World Service is working with the Haitian government to distribute health kits.
Tags: ELCA, Haiti, Tim Frakes Productions
Acholi Return to Farming with LWF Support
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Africa, Education, News, Peace and Justice, Tim Frakes Productions
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
Returning to Uganda
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Africa, News
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
What’s Enough?
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Education, Faith Based Production, Stewardship
This “back-to-school” fable for children and adults features Murray, a young boy whose school stuff doesn’t quite fit into his backpack and whose understanding of “enough” needs a little homework. My friend Mary Lindberg Carlson wrote the script. Bob Sitze served as executive producer.
This video is part of a package of segments I produced for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s stewardship emphasis, Make it Simple.
Tags: Education, ELCA, Stewardship, Tim Frakes Productions, Video
Quiet Strength: The Deaconess Community, ELCA
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Client Production, Education, Faith Based Production, History, women
Quiet Strength is a short documentary I produced in for the Deaconess Community, ELCA. The video looks at the history of the community its role in Church and society and the future of the organization. The video is narrated by the Rev. Barbara Berry-Bailey.
Tags: Church, Community, Deaconess, ELCA, History, Lutheran, Tim Frakes Productions, Video, women
Making Us One
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Client Production, Evangelism and Outreach, Faith Based Production
Making Us One Final from Tim Frakes on Vimeo.
This is a video I produced for the North/West Lower Michigan Synod (N/WLMS) of the ELCA. Kairos and Associates is helping the N/WLMS develop an new center for mission and ministry campus is DeWitt, Michigan. The facility will house an existing congregation, a mission center and the synod offices. Given the state of the economy in Michigan, this is a bold step of faith.