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!
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
Happy 1st Sunday of Advent! We hope that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and friends. The Lumen Crew truly enjoyed their time with their family and friends. What a great way to end the Thanksgiving Holiday by kicking off Advent and the new Mass Translation. Speaking of Advent, don't forget it's not too late to order He is Coming to help teach or enhance your child's Advent season. Also our friends at Holy Heroes. We both are incredibly thankful for your support!
During this Advent season, some of the Lumen Crew has decided to do an Advent fast to prepare for the birth of our Lord and Savior! You can start now and it ends on Christmas Eve. It's some what like Lent and you do not have to give up something either. Maybe add something to what you already do everyday. You could add an extra 10 min a day to your prayer time, dive into scripture, attend daily mass, pray the rosary more often, or visit Jesus in Adoration. A priest had said in his homily, "what better way to prepare for the birth of Jesus than to spend time in prayer and in the scriptures." Let all of us be encouraged to prepare for the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
We pray you all have a great week and you all are in our prayers. See you on Friday for some Cuban Coffee and hopefully are mailing will be done and sent out!
Song of the Week: To help prepare for the Birth: O Come O Come Emmanuel by Shane & Shane
Challenge of the Week:What are you going to do to prepare for the birth of Jesus?
Quote of the Week:"God
walks into your soul with silent step. God comes to you more than you
go to Him. Never will his coming be what you expect, and yet never will
it disappoint." Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Scripture of the Week: Jesus said to his disciples:"Be watchful! Be alert!
You do not know when the time will come." Matt 13:33
Prayer Intentions for the Week:
1. Our Mailing for our the Final Push Fundraiser. That nothing may come against it.
2. For everyone who is working on Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage
3. For the continue financial and spiritual support for Lumen
How didkeeping it simplego this past week? Today's blog is inspired from Nicol attending the Casting Crowns Come to the Well tour on Thursday November 17,2011. Here are her thoughts...
My brother and I were blessed to receive last minute tickets to see Casting Crowns, The Afters, Sanctus Real, and Lindsay McCaul last Thursday. While we were at the concert, the lead singer from Casting Crowns explained why the tour and their latest album is called Come to the Well.
He said, one day while in prayer he had re-read the story about the Samaritan Woman at the Well(John 4). The Samaritan woman and Jesus were both talking about water, but the type of water was where they were differed. God began to show Mark(the lead singer) we are all like the Samaritan woman, we go to different "wells" to be "filled up." What are the different wells? It could be where we draw our identity based upon what others think about us or we get "filled up" by our jobs. The list could go on and on. We often turn to these wells to fill a place that was only meant for one "well," Jesus Christ. He is our living water, He is the well that is always overflowing and giving us our identity. When we draw from other people or things we end up dry and searching for more, but when we draw from Jesus we are never empty. It is that simple.
It doesn't matter where you are on your faith journey, this is a message we need to be reminded of. Mark is right, it is that simple. When I heard him say the word simple, it made me think of our blog we wrote a week ago and how much the message tied in with our blog. As we head into Thanksgiving, it is easy to get caught up in preparing for the big day and making sure everything is just right. Let us all remember to keep things simple with our prayer life and preparation for Thanksgiving day.
Speaking of Thanksgiving weekend, it is also the start of Advent! Don't forget to visit our good friends at Holy Heroesand The Altar Gang for great ideas to help teach your children or relatives about Advent.
Have a blessed and wonderful Monday! ~Lumen Crew
Song of the Week: Come to the Well by Casting Crowns
Challenge of the Week:
Getting in the habit of turning to Jesus first and visiting Him at the well.
Prayer Intentions for the Week:
1. Everyone who is traveling will be protected and safe from harm.
2. We will get the mail out finished by Wednesday.
3. Continue financial support for Lumen Entertainment and Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage
Quote of the Week:
"Everyone has a past, but through Jesus we all have a future."
The office is always more eventful when we have more people in for the day. Today we were graced with the presence of Mama Shields, Ally, and David. Mama Shields and David are our weekly volunteers and Ally comes up to the office when she is able to. Ally's visit this week comes with perfect timing(God's timing), because we are gearing up to send out our last matching fundraiser for Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage. More details on the Final Push match coming next week!
Brian and Rich editing
Mama Shields!
Ally working hard on labeling.
nom nom nom
Cuban Coffee Tip for the week... Add evaporated milk. With Brian, Rich, Carlos and David busy working on editing the film, it left Nicol to make the Cuban Coffee. Nicol's preference is to add evaporate milk. Try it some time! As Nicol would say... "nom nom nom."
Advent is just around the corner! Don't forget to visit our friends at Holy Heroes and the Altar Gang for great tools to help celebrate Advent! Please continue to keep Lumen Entertainmentin your prayers. We pray you have a wonderful and blessed weekend. See you on Monday! ~Lumen Crew.
Nicol making the Cuban Coffee
Mixing the Spumita with the Coffee
Nicol attempting to poke a hole in the evaporated milk can
Nicol pouring the Cuban Coffee and Carlos trying to poke hole.
What are the chances of the above picture happening?!?!!?! Well if you missed it, don't fret because you have the chance to see it tonight at 11:11pm :)
November is a packed month of different feast days and holidays. Today as we all know is Veteran's Day. Have you thanked a Veteran today? We want to encourage everyone to thank and pray for our Veterans! They all need encouragement and our prayers. Aside from it being a great day to reflect on our freedom, it is also St. Martin of Tours Feast day! St. Martin of Tours is the patron saint of soldiers. As we are praying for our veterans and current soldiers, let us ask for the intercession of St. Martin of Tours.
This month as you are gearing up for the start of the beautiful Advent Season, visit Advent Adventure. It's a great website with exciting teaching tools to help teach about Jesus and the Church. We pray you have a great weekend and may it be blessed abundantly. See you on Monday! ~Lumen Crew
The week went by fast with the anticipation of the JP II field trip taking place today. We actually spent part of the week remodeling the office. It looks great and smells great(Nicol bought a Cinnamon broom)! You really won't believe the transformation this office under went. It's as if Extreme Makeover came in and finished in 72 hours! Brian did a great job building things and making a mess, Carlos assisted Brian, and Nicol and Ally went behind the guys and cleaned up after them.
Today the office was buzzing with 54 students(babies-Senior's in high school) from the JP II Home School group in Jacksonville. They came through the office in 2 separate groups. As the younger students walked through the office to the back, they got excited as they saw drawings of Skiff, AJ, and other Characters from the Altar Gang. The morning started off with Brian teaching the students how art can help teach about God and truth. He explained to them how everything in this life, including art is meant to glorify our Heavenly Father. After their art lesson, we split them up in 2 groups. We had two stations the students would visit in the office. First station was with Carlos and David in the recording studio. While the students were in the recording office, they learned how to create sound effects with ordinary objects. The second station was with Brian, where they learned how to draw and to not be afraid to mess up while drawing. Brian taught them how to draw Mary the Ciborium and the other characters. In both sessions, the students where actively participating and excited to be in the office where the Altar Gang lives. As the students left they received a coloring book filled with pictures of the Nativity Scene, just in time for the Advent Season that is approaching quickly.
We had a blast with the students and their mothers. We are thankful and blessed to have had them here in our office. Please take a look at the slide show to the right of all the pictures from today! Have a safe and Blessed weekend! ~ Lumen Crew...
