Lampstand

Order of Worship for every Sunday, on every screen

Lampstand is a free church projection app, built so one laptop can run the whole service: songs, scripture, sermon slides and the live stream. Offline on Sunday morning, fitted to every screen in the room, and simple enough for a volunteer after ten minutes of training.

Free and open source (GPL-3.0), planned for Windows, macOS and Linux. Nothing to download yet: we’re building it in the open.

Star Lampstand on GitHub Read the plan

Prelude0:45

What the 45-second film shows (music, no narration)

Sunday, 9:58 a.m. The worship leader has shared the songs. Is the screen ready?

  1. Plan together. The team builds the service from home during the week; the projection laptop already has it on Sunday, with no internet needed.
  2. Fits every screen. A cropped TV, then the calibration grid, then lyrics sitting inside the safe area.
  3. Slides that just play. PowerPoint and Google Slides with their builds, video and speaker notes.
  4. Switch in an hour. Songs, sets, themes and media come across from OpenLP, EasyWorship, ProPresenter and FreeShow in one pass.

It ends on the Lampstand name: free and open source church projection for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Order of Worship

A sample service, showing what Lampstand is being built to do. Scroll, click an item, or press ← → here to put it live.

Good morning, church

Service begins in 02:00

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.

Amazing Grace · John Newton · Public domain

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:16 · KJV

Hope Remains

  • Hope is a person, not a feeling
  • Hope holds in the storm
  • Hope sends us out

Build 2 of 3

Camera 2 · Stream output

Youth camp sign-ups close Sunday

Ask at the welcome desk

The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: the LORD make his face shine upon thee.

Numbers 6:24–25 · KJV

Live Call to Worship

The dashed box is this screen’s safe area. Slides are a sample, drawn here in the page; the real output runs in the desktop app.

Connection Card

Tear off and drop it in the plate, or just click.

Notices

In the workshop: built so far

  • The data model, and the live engine that moves through a service
  • Layout and a GPU renderer with output windows and per-screen calibration
  • Encrypted sync between the church’s own devices on the local network
  • Song and Bible importers for the common formats
  • A PowerPoint reader, built on the open-source DeckCraft crates
  • The OBS browser source, and the desktop app’s first screens

Still to come

  • The operator view, deck import and the planner
  • Team invites and the self-hosted sync relay
  • Signed installers for Windows, macOS and Linux

Free, for good

GPL-3.0, with no paid tier and no company cloud your Sunday depends on. Your songs and services stay on your own machines, in open formats you can take anywhere.