About
Lightpost exists to help congregations focus on spiritual matters — not on wrestling with spreadsheets, phone trees, and outdated directories.
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The church had a deep and growing need to centralize and organize data for the Lord's church — to stop the confusion of outdated spreadsheets and emails being passed around.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
The key moments along the way to what Lightpost is today.
A custom web application is built for a single congregation in Katy, Texas to replace scattered spreadsheets and stale emails.
A ground-up rewrite with multi-congregation support, a mobile app, and communication features — all quietly tested in the wild.
Lightpost opens up publicly — directory, messaging, mobile app, and the first wave of communication tools.
Online giving, podcast hosting, prayer list, worship assignments, attendance tracking, and dozens of other features arrive — each driven by real congregations.
Websites, task boards, sign-up sheets, child check-in, media transformation — and a roadmap full of what's coming next. See the roadmap →
Tiny Bits
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 a need (and greatly desire) the time to build them.
What we stand for
Every feature, every price, every feedback conversation is filtered through these.
Lightpost was built for and by churches of Christ. Our roadmap serves the Lord's church first — not a broader market.
We don't sell data, don't mine it for ads, and don't share it across churches. Member data stays where it belongs.
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.
The roadmap is shaped by conversations with the congregations actually using Lightpost — not a boardroom.
Lightpost answers to the churches who use it — not to investors demanding growth.
Existing features get polished continuously — not left to rot in favor of shiny new things. See the roadmap.
Lightpost gets better with every congregation that joins. We'd love to help yours.
