NEW WEBSITE

 Happy Feast of St. Joseph!!!!

  We are excited to announce our new website has been launched! Last week was a very exciting week at Lumen. There has been a lot of progress with Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage, Nicol's 1 year anniversary, new website, great board meeting, volunteers in through out the week, and attended the Immaculate Heart of Mary Home school conference.

On March 14th 2010 Nicol joined the Lumen Entertainment Crew.

Nicol Enjoying her Cuban Coffee and Celebrating 1 year with Lumen

Friday was exceptionally busy for us. We had a board meeting with some of our board members and then it was off to a Home school Conference after the meeting. The meeting was very successful and God is doing some great things, beyond what we can fathom! You will see the details of the meeting in God's timing as all His plans unfold :) 

 

 Below are some pictures from the Home School Conference we were at. We were able to help promote Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage and the Spiritual Adoption Campaign while at the conference!

We have new CD cases for the Altar Gang

Our Table

Nicol was visited by the youngest Shields!

Meet Carlos, this is Part 1 of his Fruit Basket interview.

Spiritual Adoption Website is officially up and running. We are ONE WEEK away from starting our Spiritual Adoption Campaign!!!! Please tell everyone and sign up. Our goal is to have over 1,370,000 babies Spiritually Adopted.

Great Song for Lent: Desert Song by Hillsong

Prayers for the week:

1. For the lighting section of Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage

2. For God's will to be done for our Space and Rent situation. 

3. For all of our board members 

4. For all who have donated

5. For Lumen's finances

6. Success of the Spiritual Adoption Campaign 

We pray you are having a wonderful Lent so far. May God Bless you and your family abundantly and we will see you on Friday! St. Joseph pray for us!  ~ Lumen Crew

Progress

We have made some progress in our lighting and rendering! Praise God! Please continue to pray for this area of the film, we are so close to the film being finished.

 It's been a great first full week of Lent here at the office. We are currently working on a new website and we are excited to be able to share it with you soon! Till then please continue to help spread the word about our Spiritual Adoption Campaign. We have 465 babies spiritually adopted!

 Speaking of babies, check out a couple of the latest pictures of the baby in Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage.

We pray you have a wonderful weekend and don't forget to have some Cuban Coffee! Here is the latest Fruit Basket video. Oh one more thing... Lumen Entertainment is now on Pinterest! Please don't hesitate to follow and re-pin our pins. It's another great way to help spread Lumen Entertainment to the masses who still do not know we exists. Thank you for your prayers and support! ~ Lumen Crew

Lent

Happy 1st Friday of Lent!

  What a wonderful season in our Church we have entered. Though this is a time of prayer and fasting and much self sacrificing, we can also look at Lent as a joyous time. Fasting from things that lead us to sin and being stripped of our selfishness, pride, vanity, ect... will bring joy into our lives. For we have recognized the vices and use this time to ask God to heal those areas. No longer are we living in the dark, but we are living in the light and walking in God's will. What could be more joyous than that? So rather than looking at fasting with an attitude of "man I have to give up_____ for 40 days! ," look at it as a time to grow deeper with our Savor!

Carlos Showing Stephen

  At Lumen for .5 seconds we thought about giving up Cuban Coffee, but who are we kidding? Instead we are praying about what God wants us to do as a company during these next 40 days! 

  Today we had an office packed with volunteers and meetings. We are jazzing up our website for the Spiritual Adoption! So far we have 409 babies Spiritually Adopted! Please continue to tell your family and friends! Our goal is to get 1,370,000.00 adopted. Please don't hesitate to ask anyone! 

 Below are some pictures from today and we also released our 2nd Fruit Basket video Enjoy the pictures and the video. Don't forget to get some Cuban Coffee in this weekend, unless you gave it up for Lent. Have a blessed weekend and we will see you Monday! ~Lumen Crew 

 

David Editing Nicol's Fruit Basket interview

Michael fell asleep on the couch

Having a meeting about our website

Brian messing with Michael

 

Guadalupe Box

    This week has been incredibly eventful. We have officially kicked off our Spiritual Adoption Campaign and have unveiled our Fruit Basket Project. On Tuesday, St. Valentine's Day, we went to WQOP to launch our Spiritual Adoption Campaign. Terry, Brian, and Nicol enjoyed doing a live radio show promoting Lumen's new campaign. Please help spread the word about Spiritually Adopting a baby.
  

    Our biggest blessing that came this week was our new super computer arriving yesterday( February 16). Brian was actually quite surprised, because the new computer was not supposed to arrive till February 29th. So this puts us 2 weeks ahead of schedule! Praise the Lord! Our super computer will help us to render Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage. We are pleased to introduce to you "Guadalupe"... Why Guadalupe? This is a quote from Brian..."If Our Lady can render an image on a tilma, then she can help to render our film."

Meet Guadalupe

    This afternoon we did another interview for our Fruit Basket. We interviewed Nicol and have Ally's interview ready! Check out our Vimeo page to meet Ally!
    Below are some pictures from the weeks events. We hope you have some Cuban Coffee and have a blessed weekend! Don't forget to help spread the word about our Spiritual Adoption Campaign. ~Lumen Crew

Fruit Basket Project

   For the last week we have been talking about a Fruit Basket Project we have been working on. We were sitting around conversing one day and thought we should put together video testimonies of people who have been involved with Lumen Entertainment over the years. Below is our intro video to our project, come back tomorrow for our 1st Fruit Basket testimony. Enjoy! ~Lumen Crew

   Don't forget we have officially launched our Spiritual Adoption Campaign.

Spiritual Adoption Campaign

  

Happy Feast of St. Valentine!  In last Friday's blog we had mentioned there was a lot of exciting things transpiring here at the office. Starting today at 12pm we will be kicking off our Spiritual Adoption Campaign. 

What is a Spiritual Adoption?

   Spiritual Adoption is when we commit to pray daily for a baby that is in danger of being aborted. The prayer we will send you is short and sweet. You'll have it memorized the first week!

What's this particular Spiritual adoption all about?

    First, there is no cost involved. This campaign is about the power of prayer.
It is estimated that 1.37 million babies will be aborted in the United States in 2012. Our goal with this campaign is to have a minimum of 1.37 million babies being prayed for from March- December.This campaign We will be praying also for the baby's parents and for a safe delivery. The beauty of spiritually adopting a baby is it could potentially save the life of the baby!

    We invite you to join us in the this 9 month Spiritual Adoption of a baby that is in danger of being aborted this year.
    Your prayers united with thousands of others is going to be powerful! The Spiritual Campaign kick off is February 14, 2012(today!) and our official starting date is March 26th, 2012. From March 26th ( The Annunciation) to December 25th(Jesus' birthday) we will all be praying together for the baby we have adopted. We have some amazing resources to share with you over the next nine months that will enrich your life.

TODAY from 12pm-1pm Brian, Terry, and Nicol will be live on WQOP talking about the Spiritual Adoption Campaign and also updates on Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage. We invite you to call in and spiritually adopt a baby, we would also love to hear from you!

May the love of our Lord Jesus fill your heart and cause you to spread His love to those who are in need of love today! Pictures later today! ~Lumen Crew

Happy February

We play "Kill the Ant" game to pass the time as we wait on scenes to be finished...

   February has arrived with a bang! It's only February 3rd and much has happened here at the office and in the states. At Lumen we were a little excited to hear that the Komen foundation defunded Planned Parenthood, but then our joy was turned to sorrow when the news came they reversed their decision. So now it's back to praying for the Susan G. Komen foundation and that their eyes and hearts will be opened to the truth behind Planned Parenthood.

   In other news, today we began to film for a side project "The Fruit Basket." Tune back in on Wednesday February 8th(next week) for all the details. Until then we have pictures to share with you below. You can also visit our Facebook page to view all the pictures. As you begin your weekend, don't forget to have some Cuban Coffee. We pray you have a blessed and joy filled weekend. Don't forget to laugh and share a smile with a stranger. ~Lumen Crew

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Carlos decided to play a trick and trap Brian

David Brian Setting up to film "The Fruit Basket"

Filming Ally's interview

Brian scolding David...

Brian doesn't like when Nicol looks down at him

Careful David the baby is watching & listening

Brian making the Spumita for Cuban Coffee

Update on Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage

A message from Brian:  

    The graph above is to keep you up to speed.  Please pray for the Lighting area.  This is a highly specialized area and the talent pool is sparse.  But I'm still looking, in hopes to speed things up.  We are pushing the best we know how and constantly trying to find ways to better the process.  But I heard a priest say it best, “Man proposes and God disposes.”  So as much as I want to have this done two years ago, God seems to have other plans. I humbly ask for your patience until God “Disposes” its completion.

 Song of the Week: Heaven's Before Me by Marian Grace. The beautiful and angelic voice is Colleen Nixon. Colleen sings in one of our music montage's for Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage. The Nixon family are very dear to our hearts here at Lumen. Colleen's husband Titus came and spoke to the film camp students last year. Titus and Colleen are now traveling the country spreading the Gospel to youth and young adult. Visit the Nixon-Nation

 Quote of the Week: 

     "Nothing is more practical, that finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quiet absolute, final way. What are you in love with? What seizes you imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything." Fr. Pedro Arrupe

Scripture of the Week:  

     "As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love." John 15:9

Prayers for the Week:

1. For Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage

2. All who are working on Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage

3. Continue financial and spiritual support of Lumen Entertainment

4. All of our benefactors

5. For the lighting part of our Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage

  

Have a blessed and wonderful week, we will see you on Friday! ~Lumen Crew  

Morning Joy

Sunrise in Jacksonville Beach.

   Good Morning from the Lumen Crew to you! The above picture was taken as the sun was rising this morning(2/26/12). We realize we have said we would share pictures form the march around the Jacksonville Courthouse, but we have had some computer issues and lost our pictures. We are in the process of fixing our computer and retrieving our pictures. Please pray for that!

    This morning we want to share with you Christ's Joy! We pray the Holy Spirit will fill you with His peace, joy, and love. May His love radiate from you to those around you, just like the picture above. You all are always in our prayers! Have a wonderful day and we will see you tomorrow for a full blog filled with all the pictures and an update on Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage. Joyfully through Christ~ Lumen Crew.

Happy Baptism of our Lord

Happy Baptism of Jesus

   

   What a wonderful feast day in our Church. We pray that you have had a great weekend and our enjoying your Monday. It's been a quiet day in the office for the most part. Brian and Carlos are working extremely hard on editing Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage. Nicol is busy updating our data base and working on the final amount that was raised during the month of December. We realize we said we would have the total last week, but more checks are still coming in. PRAISE GOD! We know we have met our goal for the fundraiser. We are truly grateful for all of your financial donations! 

Song of the Week: Marvelous Light Sung by Thomas and Timothy 

Challenge of the Week: Now that Christmas has officially ended on the Church calendar, are you still radiating Christ's peace and joy from Christmas? Remember Christmas peace and joy isn't found just in one season, but it is meant to be spread year around. 

Quote of the Week: "Give me grace, O Lord, to do as you command, and command me to do what you will!" St. Augustine 

Scripture of the Week:  "So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God."~1Corinthians 10:31

Prayer Requests for the Week:

1. For Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage

2. All who are working on Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage

3. Continue financial and spiritual support of Lumen Entertainment

4. All of our benefactors

5. Lord will bring people to us to help complete Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage

We pray you have a wonderful and an abundantly blessed week. ~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

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!