About Lightpost
A tiny bit of history.
Lightpost exists to help congregations focus on spiritual matters, not on wrestling with spreadsheets, phone trees, and outdated directories.
At a glance
- First built
- 2009
- Home
- Katy, Texas
- Launched
- 2018
- Features
- 40+ & counting
- Funding
- Bootstrapped
A product of Tiny Bit Farm LLC.
Our story
From one congregation, to the Lord's church.
Lightpost began in 2009 as an unnamed custom web application built for the congregation in Katy, Texas. The church had a deep and growing need to centralize and organize data for the Lord's church, to stop the confusion of outdated spreadsheets and emails being passed around.
Beginning in 2016, that application was completely rewritten into what became Lightpost, this time with support for other congregations, a mobile app, and new communication features. After much testing and a quiet launch, Lightpost was officially launched in 2018.
Since then, Lightpost has grown steadily and deliberately, shaped by real congregations doing real ministry. Every feature has a story behind it, and most came from a conversation with a church who needed something better.
Milestones
A long, steady path.
The key moments along the way to what Lightpost is today.
See what's next on the roadmap-
2009
The original spark
A custom web application is built for a single congregation in Katy, Texas to replace scattered spreadsheets and stale emails.
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2016
Rewritten as Lightpost
A ground-up rewrite with multi-congregation support, a mobile app, and communication features, all quietly tested in the wild.
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2018
Official launch
Lightpost opens up publicly: directory, messaging, mobile app, and the first wave of communication tools.
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2020–2023
Growing into a platform
Online giving, podcast hosting, prayer list, worship assignments, attendance tracking, and dozens of other features arrive, each driven by real congregations.
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Today
40+ features & counting
Websites, task boards, sign-up sheets, child check-in, media transformation, and a roadmap full of what's coming next.
Tiny Bits
Built by a church member, for the church.
Lightpost is a product of Tiny Bit Farm LLC, a highly experienced software shop based in Katy, Texas.
Tiny Bit Farm is owned and operated by me, Drew Johnston, a member and deacon at the Lord's church in Katy, Texas. I'm thrilled to put my 25+ years of experience building things with technology to use, helping the church communicate and function more efficiently with Lightpost.
My hope is that Lightpost proves so incredibly useful to the Lord's church that it becomes entirely self-sustaining, allowing me not only to support my family, but to pursue other technology projects that further assist the Lord's church and the spreading of the Gospel.
I have no shortage of ideas. I only need (and greatly desire) the time to build them.
What we stand for
A few quiet principles.
Every feature, every price, every feedback conversation is filtered through these.
For the Lord's church
Lightpost was built for and by churches of Christ. Our roadmap serves the Lord's church first, not a broader market.
Your data is your data
We don't sell data, don't mine it for ads, and don't share it across churches. Member data stays where it belongs.
Real support when you need it
No ticket queues, no offshore call centers. When you reach out, you reach the people who built Lightpost, and who use it at their own congregation every Sunday.
Driven by real feedback
The roadmap is shaped by conversations with the congregations actually using Lightpost, not a boardroom.
Bootstrapped, not VC-funded
Lightpost answers to the churches who use it, not to investors demanding growth.
Always improving
Existing features get polished continuously, not left to rot in favor of shiny new things. See the roadmap.
Join us
Want to be part of the story?
Lightpost gets better with every congregation that joins. We'd love to help yours.