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

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

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

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

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.