Lessons.church is a website for hosting free video based lessons for churches. The lessons can be scheduled in advance for classrooms and customized. The companion FreePlay app runs on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV and will pre-fetch each week's lesson in the classroom so they're ready to be displayed on Sunday without needing an Internet connection.
The only reason this program is free is because of the generous support from users. If you want to support us to keep this free, please head over to ChurchApps or sponsor us on GitHub. Thank you so much!
We have a great community for end-users on Facebook. It's a good way to ask questions, get tips and follow new updates. Come join us!
If you discover an issue or have a feature request, simply submit it to our issues log. Don't be shy, that's how the program gets better.
If you would like to contribute in any way, head over to our Slack Channel and introduce yourself. We'd love to hear from you.
If you'd like to set up the project locally, see our development guide. For this app:
- Run
npm ito install dependencies - Run
npm run devto launch the project. - Playwright: with local Api (
ENVIRONMENT=demo) and LessonsApi (APP_ENV=demo) running,yarn testlogs in as the demo accounts and writes gitignoredtests/.auth-*.json. Do not commit those files. Optional overrides:TEST_LESSONS_ADMIN_EMAIL,TEST_LESSONS_ADMIN_PASSWORD,TEST_GRACE_EMAIL,TEST_GRACE_PASSWORD(seedotenv.sample.txt). The test runner loads.envthe same way Next.js does, so those can live in.envor in real environment variables, which take precedence.