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Captain’s log, stardate: March 25, 2022
It’s been a very long, but very good week here at Lightworks. After completing 14 dense interviews last week with a diverse pool of US Christians, this week, we worked for a long 3 days (from about 9am to 2am basically nonstop) to make sense of all the feedback.
I’m excited to say that the insights from these interviews have already significantly enhanced our vision for our digital discipleship product.
I’m also excited to take a nap. 😄 It’s like God knew what He was doing when He made the Sabbath, you know?
Highs:
What did I consider wins from this past week?
WE HAVE AN MVP (Minimum Viable Product) PLAN! We made the hard push to process all this data before Thursday to be ready for a meeting with some friends & partners in the digital products & digital missions spaces. Our aim was to bring data-based perspectives on who our users could be, the problems they are facing, and how to help them progress in their relationships with Jesus. We finished the analysis just in time to share our findings in the meeting, and GOD SHOWED UP. We now have a solid idea of:
A realistic experience vision for what this digital discipleship platform could look like in the future.
A plan for a simplified version that can help us get started.
Immediate next steps to bring this simplified version of the product to life.
WIN! PRAISE GOD!
Lows:
What did I consider losses from the past week?
Had hoped to have our ministry website ready to go-live by this weekend, but it looks like that may take a bit longer than we initially had hoped. Thankfully, we still have a great place for folks to follow along our journey (these posts!) while we finish it!
KPIs:
Reporting key metrics in public to invite discussion and prayer
0 monthly active users (all Lightworks digital initiatives) [not launched]
0 monthly active users (digital discipleship platform) [not launched]
Now that we have an MVP plan, we hope these numbers will start to grow in the next few weeks!
Looking Ahead:
What’s coming up? Where are we heading / aiming?
Keep an eye out for a more detailed look at our research process and findings in the next few weeks on this newsletter!
Start building the simplified version of the app via a no-code platform called Bubble.io.
Finish implementing creative & copy on our ministry website, and go live in the next 1-3 weeks.
Catching up on management tasks (migrating to a new CRM, sending out our next newsletter to financial partners, get the word out about this newsletter, legal formation logistics, etc.)
Prayer Requests:
How can you be praying for us?
Pray for stamina for our teams. There’s a lot on the docket that we want to get done before the 1st of the month (yes, that’s next Friday). We’re praising God for where we are, but there’s still a lot left to be done.
Pray for the people we interviewed! Our hearts continue to break for these 14 people and their stories. We gained a renewed sense of why this platform is so critical through our analysis. Pray we’re able to serve and care these 14 and the countless others like them in the weeks ahead!
Pray for physical health. A few people on our team are sick or not feeling well. Pray the Lord would provide healing and full restoration for the team.
THANK YOU for following along, friends. Grateful to have you with us in this journey, and looking forward to sharing more along the way!
‘Till every person can know Him,