About
Written for the person who arrives at eight and leaves at one.
Lumina Sanctuary is a media station for Seventh-day Adventist churches. It is one Windows program that holds the projector, the platform monitor, the choir screen, the foyer display, the phone remotes and the stream, so that a service does not need three computers and three people who all know what they are doing.
Why it exists
Most church media software is built for a paid production team on a Sunday. Adventist congregations tend to run their media the way they run everything else: a volunteer, often a teenager, often the only one who understands the desk, doing it every Sabbath because nobody else can.
That shapes every decision here. The Bible and the hymnal are inside the installer rather than a download you have to find. Preparation happens on Friday because the Friday person and the Sabbath person are usually different people. The manual lives in the app because the church Wi-Fi is not reliable and the moment you need an answer is thirty seconds before the doxology.
And the congregation's screen is treated as sacred. A volunteer should be able to fumble, search, mistype and change their mind without any of it appearing on the wall.
Who makes it
Lumina Sanctuary is written and published by Brandon Kissinger as an individual. It is not a company, and it is not a product of any church, conference, union or division.
It is given away free to any congregation that wants it. The source is not published.
Not an official Adventist product
Lumina Sanctuary is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists or any of its organisations. The name is used to describe who the software is built for, not to claim any relationship with the denomination.
The rules the software is held to
Preparation is never projection
Looking something up, typing a reference, or opening the next hymn cannot change what the congregation sees.
One state, many windows
The dashboard, the panels, the extra screens and every phone in the building are all looking at the same truth. There is no second opinion about what is live.
Recoverable in one keystroke
Whatever has gone wrong, F9 ends it, from anywhere in Windows, even when the app is behind something else.
It works without the internet
The Bible, the hymnal, your media and the manual are all local. The network is needed to stream, and for nothing else.
Where your work is kept
Everything you make — services, songs, settings, overlay presets, media trims — lives in a local database on your own machine, under your Windows user profile in %APPDATA%.
There is no cloud account and no sync. That means nothing is uploaded, and also that a dead hard drive takes your work with it. Settings → Maintenance can write a backup file; put it somewhere that is not the media computer.
A note on what it is not
It does not replace PowerPoint, and does not try to. It drives the decks your church already makes.
It does not run on macOS or Linux, and there is no plan for that. Live PowerPoint control is a Windows technology.
It is not a video switcher. If your church has one, it plugs in as a camera and Lumina Sanctuary treats it as such.