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More than 40 features, built with and for the churches of Christ. Every core feature comes with every plan, add-ons are there when you need them, and the mobile app is free for every member.
Feature tours
Each tour walks through a feature section by section, with screens, details and answers to common questions.
Posts, polls, messaging, calendars, task boards and video calls for every ministry.
Take the tourEmail, text, picture messages, voice calls and group posts.
Take the tourFamilies, photos, privacy controls and printable directories.
Take the tourRequests, a review queue, updates and a Praying button.
Take the tourColor-coded calendars, recurring events, RSVPs and phone sync.
Take the tourPotlucks and volunteers, with limits, families and a public link.
Take the tourSermon audio, AI transcripts, your website and podcasts.
Take the tourLabels, pickup tags, allergy alerts and parent paging.
Take the tourStay connected
The tools your members use every week to share news, pray together and look out for one another.
Give every ministry, class and project its own space with posts and forums, polls, files, a calendar and task boards. Members join open groups themselves, and leaders control who can post.
Reach a group by email, text message, picture message or voice call, and members choose how they hear from each group. See who each message went to.
Keep one prayer list the whole church prays through. Members submit requests for review, Prayer Editors post updates, and a tap on Praying lets a family know they are lifted up.
Meet face to face in any group without another app. Share a guest link, with an optional password, so visitors and family can join too.
On the way to a visit, a retreat or a meal? Share a live arrival time with your group, and tap "running late" or "arrived" when it happens.
When a storm or crisis hits, alert the groups you choose by email and push notification. Members answer "OK", "Help needed" or "Urgent help", and help requests go straight to your response team.
Feature new families on the home screen of the web and mobile apps for the dates you choose. Add a welcome message and choose whether their children are shown.
Know your people
One set of records for every member and family, kept current by the members themselves.
Every member family with phones, emails and addresses, browsable by family or person. Members keep their own details current and hide anything that should stay private.
Put a face to every name with family photos online, in the app and in a printable photo directory. Family photo uploads wait for your office to approve them.
Organize ministries into categories, areas and subareas, and let members pick where they want to serve. See your volunteers, and find the members who haven't signed up for anything yet.
Run filterable reports for birthdays, anniversaries, baptism birthdays, widows, attendance and members you haven't seen lately. Export to CSV or PDF, or print directories and mailing labels.
Plan and organize
Calendars, sign-ups, classes and tasks, so the work of the church gets done without a pile of spreadsheets.
Give each ministry its own color-coded calendar, keep group calendars private to the group, and repeat events on any pattern. Members RSVP for the whole family and sync events to their phone.
Build a sheet for a potluck, a meal schedule or a workday, with sections and limits. Families sign up together, and visitors can use a public link or QR code.
Each group can run task boards with lists, labels, checklists, assignees and due dates. Comments and an activity log keep everyone on the same page.
Publish each quarter's classes with teachers, days and locations, and open sign-ups. Members register in the app or on your website, and you print rosters by class or by person.
Record the songs sung at each service, with the song leader, verses and song book. Search your history and see your most-sung songs to plan worship.
Share documents, forms and resources with members in folders you can color and label. Set start and expiry dates, limit a file to men or women, or make it public on your website.
Sermons and apps
Share every lesson long after Sunday, and put the whole church in the free mobile app.
Upload sermon and class audio, organize it into collections, and let AI draft the transcript, summary and outline. Members listen in the app, and you can publish to your website and a podcast.
Free iOS and Android apps put the directory, groups, prayer list, calendars and sermons in every member's pocket. Push notifications keep everyone in the loop.
Add-ons
Turn on the add-ons that fit your church and pay only for what you use.
Check children in by scan, search or tap at a staffed kiosk or a self-service station. Print name labels and pickup tags, flag allergies, and page a parent in seconds.
Accept gifts by card or bank account in the app, on the web, or from a guest giving page that needs no sign-in. Members can set up weekly or monthly recurring gifts and see their giving history.
Track income and expenses across funds with budgets, split transactions, vendors and receipts. Produce weekly, monthly and budget reports, and email year-end contribution statements.
Take attendance by family, Bible class or group, or let members check themselves in. Visitors fill out a digital attendance card from a QR code or link, with your own questions.
Build worship assignment rosters by position and period, filled from qualified volunteers and their availability. Members get reminders and can accept or decline from email or the app.
Keep a record for every visitor with color-coded follow-up stages and a timeline of contacts and notes. Team members follow a visitor for updates and link them to a member record later.
Launch your church website from a template, with pages, blogs, sermons, the calendar and leadership pulled from Lightpost. Includes a contact form, SEO settings, redirects and visitor stats.
Turn a sermon collection into a podcast, and every sermon you add becomes a new episode. We submit it to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music for you.
Run VBS, camps and other events with custom registration forms, public sign-up links, limits and waitlists. Sort people into colored groups and track check-in and check-out live.
We register, renew and manage your church's domain for you, including forwarding extra domains to your site. Renewals are billed with your Lightpost invoice.
Our team moves your existing directory into Lightpost for you, with families, contact details, key dates, groups and photos. Everything is checked and cleaned up before it's imported.
Start with what you need
Turn on the features your church is ready for, and grow into the rest. We'll help you get set up.