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

 

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.

Oh Poop and Bubbles

From Nicol:
    So you might be wondering why the title of today's blog is about Poop and what the heck is the picture above... Yesterday(Thursday) Benoit( the owner of the Magnificat Cafe, the restaurant we work above) wanted to trick Brian into thinking there was a rat in the office. When I arrived to work Benoit informed me of the plan and how he was going to place "rat poop" on Brian's desk. Don't worry, there was no rat and it wasn't poop at all! It actually was burnt crust off of a quiche he made that morning. Hearing Brian's disgust and frustration was a great start to the morning! He truly believed our fabricated story and fell into our trap. muhahahahaha! This prank provided great laughter and a joyful start to the day, at least for us maybe not for Brian!

    Where did all the bubbles go? As I started to make the Cuban Coffee I realized we didn't have much white sugar. I tried to make it with brown sugar and I was completely unsuccessful. All we had left was sugar packets and it was ok. Note to self, if you have sugar packets, open all of the packets first before making the coffee. As you can see there are no bubbles and the spumita is non-existent in the picture above. :( BUT the good news is it still turned out delicious. So... 2 lessons from this blog.... 1. Brown sugar is not the sugar to use to make the perfect spumita. 2. Make sure all sugar packets are pre-opened before beginning to make the most epic Cuban Coffee!

    Please continue to keep Lumen in your prayers and Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage. We pray you have a wonderful and joyful weekend! Don't forget to laugh a lot and have some Cuban Coffee. Cheers ~Lumen Crew 

Fun Friday

Brian working on the back of the pledge card.

    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 Entertainment in 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.

Nicol with all the Cuban Coffee

Evaporated Milk!

Nicol serving her brothers!

Carlos super excited!

11-11-11

Brian's Computer screen this morning!

   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

Read All About It!!!!

EXTRA... EXTRA...

      Animation for Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage is COMPLETE!! 

All that's left to do is finish rendering(which the new computers are up and running as of yesterday), sound effects, and music. When all that's done, the Fat Lady can sing!

      We will keep you posted when the due date of the film will be. Please continue to pray for everyone working on the film. We especially need prayers for the monetary funds for the company. If you are looking for an organization to make a contribution to, we are always accepting donations.  Thank you for your support, love, and prayers thus far. We truly could not be where we are today without everyone's support. Continue to spread the word about Lumen Entertainment and Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage. Don't forget to tell everyone about our Facebook Page and Twitter.

You all are in are prayers ~Lumen Crew