Showing posts with label Cuban Coffee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cuban Coffee. Show all posts

Friday, March 2, 2012

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

Friday, January 27, 2012

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.

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, January 13, 2012

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 


Monday, January 9, 2012

Happy Belated Epiphany

HAPPY EPIPHANY



   We realize we are little late wishing everyone a Happy Epiphany. With it being an important feast day, we left early to be able to go to Epiphany parties that were scheduled for early evening. We had a wonderful day, filled with cleaning, 3 generations in the office, Cuban coffee, and a packed office! We pray you had a great Epiphany and remembered our Lord!
Brian's Grandmother-Mimi came to visit
3 Generations: Mimi(Brian's Grandmother, Suzie Shields(Brian's Mom0 & Brian


Cuban Coffee to Celebrate the Epiphany

Friday, December 2, 2011

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!



Thursday, November 17, 2011

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!

Friday, October 14, 2011

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

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

Friday, August 26, 2011

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