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Rebuilt Homes for Haiti’s Disabled

James Mwangi is a building engineer volunteering with the Mennonite Central Committee, a partner of Church World Service in Haiti. Mwangi is part of a team that assesses damage and helps to rebuild the homes of Haiti’s dissabled.

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Rebuilt Homes for Haiti’s Dissabled

James Mwangi is a building engineer volunteering with the Mennonite Central Committee, a partner of Church World Service in Haiti. Mwangi is part of a team that assesses damage and helps to rebuild the homes of Haiti’s disabled.

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Moody Radio Testimonial: Carolyn Keith


Here is a story I recorded and produced for Moody Radio. Carolyn Keith’s life forever changed with the accidental death of her son. Through this tragedy Carolyn has learned what faith and hope are really all about.

Moody Radio owns and operates 35 radio stations with a Christian perspective on the news, interactive talk, teaching and inspirational music.

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Exploring a Century of Change

Exploring a Century of Change: Protestant Missions, 1910-2010 is a documentary I produced for the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. In 1910 Protestant Missionary societies gathered in Edinburgh, Scotland to plan for missionary activity in the next century. This is the story of how things turned out and where Protestant missions are headed in the 21st century.

The program features leading scholars such as Brian Stanley, Edith L. Blumhofer, Peter Vethanayagamony, Robert J. Priest, Nelson Jennings and Kathryn T. Long.

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Marie Conlin

Marie Conlin is a member of the Lombard Bible Church, Lombard, Illinois.

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Quiet Strength: The Deaconess Community, ELCA

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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.

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Mount Mary College Midtown Program

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Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has asked me to produce a video about their Midtown Program. The Midtown Program is a unique scholarship opportunity that offers young women academic, personal, and financial support as they pursue a degree at Mount Mary College.
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Making Silk in Bangladesh

Have you ever wondered how silk is made? Outside Saidpur, Bangladesh I toured a silk production facility. The small factory is a non-profit operation (RDRS) that provides jobs and economic opportunity for women in this poor nation.

The silkworm is the caterpillar of Bombyx mori, the domesticated silk moth. The silk moth is entirely dependent on humans for its reproduction and no longer occurs naturally in the wild.

At the factory, the women, dressed in colorful saris, collect and sort huge piles of golden silkworm cocoons. Once sorted, the cocoons are immersed large into vats of boiling hot water.

This is bad news for the silkworms inside the cocoons! The hot water sparks a chemical reaction that allows the spun cocoon to unravel. Silkworm cocoons are natural bobbins made of one continuous strand of silk thread. After boiling, the cocoons are cooled and taken to a loom and unraveled.

The raw silk thread is then wound onto a spindle, dried and shipped to a textile factory.

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Arab Women’s Union


The Arab Women’s Union provides jobs for poor women in the West Bank while helping to preserve traditional Palestinian embroidery techniques. www.frakesproductions.com

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Women in the Early Church

Who were the women of the early church? What was their role in the formation of the faith? Why do we know so little about them? We recorded this documentary on location in Rome, Italy. The video tells the story of women in the first three centuries of Christianity. We tell stories about women like Perpetua, Helena, Thecla and others. Go to more videos produced by Tim Frakes for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
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