Adding light on the Net
What is LightNet?
LightNet enables ministries to run their own web-based media distribution site. Ministries can publish curated content in the language and culture of the communities they serve.
How does it help ministries?
Building a website with LightNet includes the following features:
• Fast response time
• Low cost
• Easy to setup, modify, run and maintain
• Easy to translate into another language
• No tracking, no advertising
Digital libraries built with LightNet
MediaWorks digital library
MediaWorks digital library provides media for least-reached people groups with 40 different languages represented.
НАДІЮ - Hope
To support relief efforts among Ukrainians during the war in their country, MediaWorks is providing media resources. A website with Christian resources in Ukrainian seeks to share messages of hope.
Food for Thought
Food for Thought is a digital collection of articles relating the Bible to a wide variety of topics.
Come partner with us!
Moving forward, we are looking for partners who will collaborate with us to verify what we’ve built, shape further functions and directly influence the future of LightNet Library.
Contact us: info.media@om.org
Software developer
God has blessed MediaWorks with a small, gifted team of software professionals to create LightNet. The technology involved to make this a resilient platform is complex. We need more developers to realise this vision.
Are you a software developer wanting to use your skills for Christ? Or do you know a software developer?
Working together towards a shared goal
During a three-month internship, Aaron worked alongside software developers creating LightNet.
MediaWorks is looking for additional software developer interns and professionals who could volunteer part- or full-time. Could this be you, or do you know someone who could help?
Product owner
Are you passionate about digital media and the ways it can help people find God and strengthen groups of Jesus followers? Are you a visionary team player who is not afraid to make decisions? Do you want to be part of a greater purpose, spreading the timeless message of hope in today's digital era?
Could you be the product owner that clicks with the product and our team?
The vision of LightNet
“But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another.”
- 1 John 1:7a (NIV)
When MediaWorks supporter Sally heard about the digital tool in progress, she suggested the name ‘LightNet’ as she thought of it helping bring light into the world through a network. Meanwhile, MediaWorks leader David had been using the analogy of the earth viewed from outer space at night with lights shining brightly from inhabited places where people were connected. It turned out that the representative photo he had shown in presentations described exactly what Sally had in mind.
The image resonates with Jamie, a systems architect developing LightNet. “This is a picture of the world through God’s spiritual eyes,” he explains. “Every Christian is a light and as they have relationship with other Christians, it makes lines of light.” While reading 1 John 1:7, Jamie found it echoed LightNet’s name and vision: to give light and to nurture networks of relationships, which bring individuals into fellowship with Jesus and with each other.
Give
If you wish to support the further development of LightNet by giving financially, please specify 'MediaWorks – LightNet' in the gift reference via your country's OM website.