Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

We pray the Joy and Peace of our Savior's birth has filled your hearts and homes.

Merry Christmas from the Lumen Crew

 

Merry Christmas Eve

  Merry Christmas Eve everyone! We pray that you are enjoying your time with your family and friends. Above is a beautiful image of the nativity by a good friend of Lumen Entertainment, Carl Fougerousse. Carl came to Film Camp in July and spoke with the students about God being the master Architect. He also has a website, Red Fern Studio,where you can view his designs and artwork. If you have sometime, view his website and give some support for a local(Savannah, GA) Catholic-Christian artist.

  Speaking of support, don't forget about the Advent/Christmas Matching fundraiser we are holding. It is a great way to help spread the Gospel, the Catholic Church Teachings, and love to those who may be on the fence about the value of life. Aside from the financial support, we also need spiritual support! Please continue to keep Lumen, the animators, and Skiff and AJ fantastic Voyage in your prayers. We thank you and we pray that you have a blessed and Merry Christmas!

~Lumen Crew

Animation Update

Pro-Life Animation is making its final push to

completion!

    Produced by Lumen Entertainment, artists who have worked for Pixar, Dreamworks, and Big Ideas have lent their talents to make  Skiff & AJ's Fantastic Voyage an entertaining show that will have the entire family
rooting for the baby in the belly.

   When inanimate objects Skiff (the incense boat) & AJ (the aspergillum) test drive their homemade time
machine, it shrinks them to gnat size. A pregnant lady mistakenly inhales the wannabe time travelers. Soon, the two encounter an extra-special being dwelling within the mother. Skiff & AJ begin to communicate, start a new friendship and learn about baby’s life in the womb. Without enough power to launch their ship back to the outside world, Skiff & AJ find themselves stranded. Only baby can help them now, but Skiff & AJ will have to put their lives in babys' hands.
 

“ this is certainly a work inspired by the Holy Spirit” along the lines of the new evangelization. Bishop Felipe Estevez Diocese of St. Augustine

“This DVD is so powerful that we are going to give it away to children in CCD and catholic schools. We are
giving it away to remind (in a fun loving way) the large population of catholic families that have
forgotten, how sacred life in the womb is.” - Brian Shields, Producer

    Skiff & AJ's Fantastic Voyage is making its final push to completion scheduled for a DVD delivery early
2012, but only with your help.

    The animation work is done but now we need the computers to take our years of work that now looks like this :

 

and turn it into the final look of the show, which is this:

AJ

   This process is costly.We have many groups that want to fund getting the DVD into the hands of thousands of catholic children, but that is when the show is done. So I need your help to finish this final computer process of rendering. As a thank you, I would like to send you a DVD of Skiff & AJ's fantastic voyage for a suggested donation of $30.

    We are very excited to be so close to the completion and your donation will be put to great use!  This
animation will re-evangelize Catholic families to be lovers of life.

    Not only will you be evangelizing, but Lumen Entertainment is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt corporation,
so all donations are tax deductible.

    This fun DVD is a perfect opportunity to share your love for life with family and friends who may be
complacent about the sanctity of human life.  If you know someone like that, I will send you 2 copies of
the show (one for yourself and one to give away) for a suggested donation of $50.

    Time is of the essence.  There are many families that need to hear this message and many lives that need to be saved.  The support you give now will impact generations though the powerful medium of animation.
Thank you for your spiritual and financial support.

In Christ, 

Brian Shields

It's a Celebration!

HAPPY 8TH ANNIVERSARY 

LUMEN ENTERTAINMENT

     Today is going to be filled with much celebration! Why? It's our 8th Anniversary,  3rd week in Advent, and the Feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe! We have a fun filled day planned here at Lumen. Nicol will be updating our Facebook and Twitter with pictures through out the day. 

Picture of Our Lady in our Office :)

Breakfast is served

   For those of you in Jacksonville, please join us today! We have breakfast from 7-10am and a Mexican Feast from 1-3pm. The food is free and we wanted to give our donors/supporters a big thank you! We would not be here today without you all. Please bring your family and friends! If you are able to come, give us a call at 904-385-0806 or email us at info@lumen.tv We hope to see you today! 

Coffee anyone?

Help!

Happy 2nd Week of Advent!

    We pray you had a great weekend! How is your Advent Fast coming? So far so good on our end here! Such a great way to help prepare for our Savior's birth! :)

     It's been a quiet day here, but extremely busy! Brian is working hard on the lighting and talking with the animators and Nicol is working on the mailing for our Final Push match. There is no more folding that needs to be done, but there is alphabetizing and stuffing of 2,000 letters that needs to be completed.

   This is a picture of majority of the letters that are sorted by letter and will then need to be alphabetized. As you can see, Nicol is in desperate need of volunteering from people! What still needs to be done? Alphabetize the letters in each alphabet letter, alphabetize the envelopes, stuffing of the envelopes, and mail them out. It has to be down all by the end of this week! So who wants to help us out?!?!?! Anybody, please! If you are able to come on up and help, you can email us at info@lumen.tv. We appreciate your support!

Song of the Week: We know we are in the season of Advent, but this version of Joyful Joyful get's everyone excited for Christmas! Enjoy

Challenge of the Week:

  How is your advent fast going? It is never too late. :)

Quote of the Week:

  If you're God's child, no matter how alone you are today, you are gloriously and eternally loved by your Father Savior King

Scripture of the Week:

"Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths." Mark 1:3

Prayer of the Week:

1. Finish our mailing

2. For our growth in Jesus during the period of waiting for His coming.

3. For everyone who is working on Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage

4. For the continue financial and spiritual support for Lumen

 

Have a great and blessed week :) See you on Friday! ~Lumen Crew

Everyday I'm Folding!

     This week it seemed instead of Jesus multiplying the fishes and loaves, He multiplied papers! We are working on mailing out over 2,000 letters containing information on our Final Push fundraiser. With Nicol, Carlos, Ally, Mama Shields, Alex, and Michael working tirelessly and suffering through paper cuts, all the letters were folded and envelopes were labeled! All that is left to do is stuff the envelopes! So who is down for helping next week? Anybody Anybody? :)

All the Letter folded! Take with Instagram

Some of the letters

     It was fun having everybody in the office! We had great laughs, conversations, and of course Cubano Coffee! If you are here in Jacksonville, FL and would like to donate your time, email us at info@lumen.tv to let us know if you can make it! Below are pictures from the past week! We pray you all have a wonderful weekend and may it be filled with much joy! ~Lumen Crew... Oh yeah! Don't forget to pray for us and for our mailing!!! Thanks!

Ahh Cubano Coffee! Taken w/ Instagram

Alex working hard!

Carlos working on Folding

Ally working with her paper cuts

Michael becoming friends with Labels!

Final Push Match

   

One of the latest scenes from the film

    For the last week we have been mentioning our fundraiser called the Final Push. We are working very hard to finish the mailing and send it out. We thought we would share part of the letter written by Brian with you! Enjoy :) 

WHAT WE STILL NEED..........

I don't have a sob story to tell you about how the world will stop spinning if you don't send us funds. We have little outstanding debt.  As a matter of fact, we had $100 left in the bank after this week’s payroll! Lumen may be a non-profit but it was “In The Black” Friday!  I do need your help though.  I don't have the funds to pay next weeks bills. 

To implement our vision of evangelizing thousands of families with the sanctity of life message in an entertaining way, it costs us $10,000 a month to run Lumen and we have another $20,000 of production work to do to finish this animation. It’s still possible to finish the show this year if the funds come in to pay for it.  It's up to you. If God is calling you to help, you will make a real difference here.

And we have $6,000 in match money so you gift will be doubled till Dec 31!  This is the final push!

    If Christ has put on your heart to donate to Lumen, we appreciate any amount! Most importantly we appreciate your spiritual support. We are were we are today, due to the Spiritual support we have received! You are always in our prayers! ~Lumen Crew