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

Congratulations

   We are very excited to announce David and Michael Oliveros have won Best Editing and Best Story at Campus Film Fest at University of North Florida.  They won 2/3 categories at the film festival this past weekend. Their movie is called Back. Back is about a man who travels back in time to save his brother from imminent death.

   David and Michael have been part of Lumen Crew for the last 4 years by partaking in the Film Camps and volunteering their time on a weekly basis. Michael and David are great men of God and are extremely talented. Please take time to view their video. Once again CONGRATULATIONS DAVID & MICHAEL! ~ Brian, Carlos, and Nicol

Click on the following link to view their video. Enjoy!

Back by David and Michael  

Stand for Life

   We hope you had a wonderful and blessed week! We were able to recover the pictures from the March for Life around the Courthouse in Jacksonville, FL. Over 500 people came out for an hour to March and/or stand for the Sanctity of Life. It has been a productive week and we are looking forward to Cuban Coffee this afternoon as a reward. We will see you on Monday and make sure you drink your Cuban Coffee. May God Bless your weekend with much joy and peace. Enjoy the pictures. ~Lumen Crew

Nicol, Carlos, Brian, Carol, and Terry

Brian at the table

Nicol at the Table

Some of the 500 + people that came out

Our Table

Tom Masters helps to put this all together.

Bambino Has A Name

Happy Friday! 

Such a funny cartoon!

That's right Bambino has a name! The Shields have named their precious baby boy, Gabriel Josemaria Shields. Such a wonderful and strong name! Thank you for all of your prayers for the Shield Family. Mommy and baby are doing great. We are sad to say today we won't have Cuban Coffee in the office, because the boss man is not here today. :( We will celebrate for sure next week! 

For those who do not know, the month of October is also known as Respect Life month. All around the world churches are gathering together to stand for life and educate their community. In honor of Respect Life Month, check this video out by Nick Cannon. After discovering his mother said no to aborting him, he created this video. Enjoy and spread it around!

We pray you have a safe and blessed weekend. Please continue to pray for everyone working on Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage. We are incredibly close! May God Bless You Abundantly ~Lumen Crew

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

Much Excitement!

In honor of Carlos' return from World Youth Day

Cheers:

  Yesterday and today we had Cuban Coffee in honor of Carlos returning safely from World Youth Day. He was gone for 5 weeks with the Home of the Mother on a pilgrimage prior to the World Youth Day events. The office has been quieter since he was gone, but boy did that change yesterday. His arrival back up to the office brought much excitement! The Lumen family is now complete! 

Hurricane Irene:

Irene Cat 2 Hurricane

On Monday, August 22nd, Jacksonville woke up to the news that Irene would hit us early Saturday Morning. Now, thanks be to God we were only affected by Irene's outer bands. This morning we were greeted with random down pours and a sky that made us feel like we were in a movie. The surfers were enjoying what Irene had to offer them. Our prayers today were offered up for everyone on on the East Coast who will be drastically effected by Irene. These pictures were taken by Nicol on her drive into work. 

Update:

1. Our Avid computer(the one that decided to take last Friday off) is barley hanging on. We have a new computer on it's way. 

Prayers:

1. Please pray for the Schwartz family. Ron Schwartz was a friend of Lumen and he joined our Lord on August 25th. Ron battled cancer for the last 6 years and he did so courageously. Ron leaves behind his wife and 3 wonderful children. 

2. Please continue to pray for us and for The Magnificat Cafe as we discern what is God's will for us and where He would like for us to be in regards to our office space.
3. Our computer will hold on and not permanently take a vacation until our new one arrives.
4. Skiff and AJ- we will have no more distractions and the financial and spiritual support will continue to come in. 


Thank you for taking the time to follow us and you all are in our prayers everyday. Have a wonderful blessed and safe weekend! ~Lumen Crew

Hot News!

It's a hot one today!

This picture best convey's how hot it is today

   Here in Jacksonville it's 97 degrees, but the heat index is 101 degrees. When you step outside you start to sweat bullets, literally! Today is not a good day to wear black, just ask Nicol who learned that from 1st hand experience :/

Can we get an Amen, Cuban Coffee is back!

Cubano Coffee:

  Though it is blazing hot outside, it's never too hot for Cuban Coffee. Since Brian is back in the office, Nicol will not experience another Friday without Cuban Coffee(check out last Friday's blog)!

Hot off the Press:

AJ and Skiff in the garage.

   Now for the real HOT news :) We have 36 seconds of Animation left of the movie!!!!!! Please continue to keep Lumen and everyone who is helping to complete Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage in your prayers. We thank you for all of your support and we will continue to keep you posted. 

Have a wonderful and blessed weekend. Try to stay cool and we will see you on Monday! ~Lumen Crew