Showing posts with label God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God. Show all posts

Friday, January 20, 2012

Sunrises and Coffee


Bird's flying!

  Today at the office, it has been nothing but exciting! It started with a productive board meeting and Cuban coffee in the morning and afternoon! Lot's of exciting news to share, BUT not today! :D We ask that you continue to pray for Lumen Entertainment and for Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage. Don't worry, you will know sooner rather than later what Lumen Entertainment has in store for everyone.
  As I (Nicol) was watching the sunrise this morning I was blown away by the beautiful colors the Lord was painting the sky with.  As the sky turned the beautiful shades of yellow and orange, I was being filled with light and wished that all babies in the womb would have the opportunity to see such a sun rise. Lumen Entertainment is asking that you join us in prayer for every one who is attending the March For Life in Washington, DC. this weekend

  We pray you have a safe and blessed filled weekend! ~Lumen Crew


Sunrise this Morning

Friday, October 28, 2011

Field Trip Friday

The Cinnamon broom Nicol purchased! 
    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...

Before
Desk #2 Before
Desk #2 After



 Shelves to show The Altar Gang CDs

New Cabinet



The New Office :)

Friday, September 30, 2011

Rubberband Wars

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!


Jacob dabbles in 5th grade Literature!
    It has been an eventful week. We have had more visitors than normal :) The Shield family stopped by and today we have had a crew of amazing people( Michael, David, Ally, Will, Stephen, and Vincent) around the office. It was also National Coffee Day! Which meant we had to Cafe Cubono twice this week!
Cafe Cubano... Nom Nom Nom
  The morning was off to a bang! Immediately there was a rubber band war and everybody taking cover. They even used our chapel as a safe place! Below is a video and pictures from the week Enjoy!



IMPORTANT
In other important news, please take the time to call your senator today! Today is the last day to voice your opinion on a potential ruling that will be added to our health care. Let us stand up for truth and justice!

 Have a great weekend and we will see you on Monday! God Bless You ~ Lumen Crew



Friday, September 16, 2011

Can You Detach?

Joke of the Day from Mother Angelica: 

Pat had been hitting the bottle once again. Father(the priest) sat down with Pat to have a talk. Father took out 2 glasses, he filled one with water and the other with Whiskey. He then took out a worm and he put the worm in the glass of water. The worm swam around as happy as can be. Father then took the worm and placed it in the glass of whiskey and it died almost instantly. Father then turned to Pat and said...
Priest : "Do you get what I am trying to tell you here?"
Pat replied in an Irish Accent: " Aye Father, if you drink whiskey you won't have any worms."

Poor Worm
Written by a guest Blogger today Ally Lynch Pirrung:
"For we brought nothing into the world, just as we shall not be able to take anything out of it." 1 Tim 6:2c - 12 Detachment has been the topic for today. The scripture quote from Timothy pin points the reasoning for why we should be totally detached from everything.  I would like to share an example of detachment.

   I was altar serving for a funeral one morning.  The hospitality president came to me and gave me an envelop.  She explained that it was from the family and they wanted to say thank you.  When I returned home I opened the envelop and found a substantial amount of money.  I was dumbfounded at the amount of money she had given me.   I began thinking about getting new glasses, school books, cloths for fall that I would be able to get out of this money.  However, in the council of my mother, I was going to call the hospitality lady back just to make sure that the money was in deed for me.   As I reached for the phone, it rang.  It was the hospitality lady calling me and explaining to me that it was a mistake in giving me the envelop.  She asked that I return the money and was coming to pick it up later that evening.  I hung up the phone disappointed, but at the same time liberated.  I found God in the situation and thanked Him for helping me to let go of my will and hold tighter to His. 



Updates: 
1. We are continuing to stay in our office space, until we hear differently.
2. On Monday, we realized we needed $12,000 in order to render the movie in a timely fashion. We humanly did not know how to come up with $12,000 so we entered into deep prayer and turned it over to our Lord. On Tuesday afternoon, our prayers were answered and a generous donor is helping to provide the money to order the 2 computers we need! GOD IS GREAT!
3.  We now have less than 15 seconds of animation left for Skiff and AJ's Fantasitc Voyage! 

We thank you for your continuous support and prayers! Don't forget to spread the news around about Lumen Entertainment. Have a great weekend and don't forget to enjoy some Cubano Coffee :) ~Lumen Crew

Monday, September 12, 2011

Greater Efficiency

How do you achieve Greater Efficiency?

    As you have read in past blogs, we were having some issues with our main computer. Praise be to God we received our new computer in last week. The Avid computer is our main computer, where all the animation computers share file from. Now, due to the network not fully linked up we've had to share files by using thumb drives! This is an obvious example of if we would call our IT guy to come fix the network we'd have greater efficiency!  Why, haven't we?  Well. We just think were to busy to! LOL!   If I apply it to daily prayer, it is always hard to stop work (being sooooo busy) and go to noon mass.  But we do, and God must make our day run better, but we can't always tell, because who knows what sort of inefficiencies we would have run into if we did not go to mass.  This could get into a deep conversation about the proper place of efficiency, so I'll leave that for you to ponder.
Have you stopped lately to call your heavenly IT guy? Often times we try to achieve much and keep pushing without taking time for our Lord. But doesn't God seem to expand time when we take the time to adore Him? Lets face it, only He can give us the graces we need to continue to accomplish all of our goals.

Friday, August 5, 2011

No Cuban Coffee

No Cuban Coffee for you!

No Cuban Coffee :(
     It's been incredibly quiet here at the office. Brian was off on a family vacation and Carlos is in Spain for World Youth Day. Which left Nicol in the office all by herself and no one to make Cuban Coffee for her! Boo Hoo Boo Hoo :'( Nicol has not mastered making cuban coffee and  she lacks the ability to make the perfect spumita and live up to Brian's high standards. Though Brian has been on vacation, the animators are still working to complete Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage. Please continue to pray for the movie. If you have not checked out our facebook page or twitter, don't hesitate! We would love to have you follow us and also share it with your friends and family. Click on the links below and they will take you straight to our pages.   We pray that you have a wonderful and blessed filled weekend. ~ Lumen Crew
Quote of the Week: "Every Saint has a past. Every sinner has a future"