For churches & care teams
A simpler way for your church to show up.
Meals after a baby, rides to appointments, a hand moving house. Lightwork lets anyone in your church ask for help plainly — and lets willing hands see the need and answer it.
Free to use. Works on iOS, Android, and the web.
What it looks like
Real needs your church can meet.
Meals for a family
Organize dinners after a birth, a surgery, or a loss — without a spreadsheet or a phone tree.
Rides to appointments
An older member needs a lift to the doctor. Post it once; someone nearby offers.
A hand around the house
Yard work, a leaky faucet, a couch to move — the small jobs that pile up when life gets hard.
Check-ins & visits
Keep an eye on members who live alone. A visit, a phone call, a porch drop-off.
Care-team coordination
Your care team sees every open need in one list, so nothing quietly falls through the cracks.
Everyone, not just the committee
Anyone in the church can offer to help — willing hands find the need without waiting to be asked.
Good to know
Questions care teams ask.
We already have a meal-train sign-up.
Lightwork covers meals and everything else — rides, repairs, visits — in one place, so members are not juggling a separate tool for every kind of need.
Some of our members are not very tech-savvy.
Asking takes one sentence. It works on any phone or in a web browser, and there is nothing to set up beyond joining your group.
Is this only for church use?
No. It is a general help app — your church is one of the groups a person can belong to, alongside their neighborhood or their kids’ school.
What about privacy?
Members can ask anonymously, and they choose who sees each ask — keep it inside your group, or post it to the public feed for neighbors nearby.
What does it cost?
Nothing for what your care team does day to day — asking, offering, co-managers, a repeating schedule, and coverage you can see ahead of time. If your church later wants to be listed and verified as an organization, that is the part we charge for.
What you get
Built so asking for help feels safe.
Private by default
Ask anonymously when you need to. Your identity is never revealed unless you choose to share it — end to end.
As open or as close as you choose
Post to the public feed and anyone nearby can lend a hand — no group required — or keep it private to a group you belong to: your church, your street, your school. You choose who sees each one.
A map of what’s needed
See open asks near you at a glance, so offering a hand is as easy as noticing one.
Direct, safe messaging
Coordinate the details one-to-one. Requests you decline simply disappear — no awkwardness, no pressure.
Everywhere you are
One account across iOS, Android, and the web. Start on your phone, finish on your laptop.
Free, and built to stay kind
No ads, no selling attention. Lightwork measures help given, not time spent.
Related reading
Read this first.
How to organize a meal train that actually shows up
The step-by-step version for a new baby, a surgery, or a hard week — without the spreadsheet chaos or six identical casseroles.
A closer look for pastors and church leaders
How a congregation actually deploys this, step by step — plus a partner kit you can print and hand to a board or a staff meeting.
Make asking for help easy in your church.
Free on every phone and the web. Start a group and invite your members.