About The Messianic LAMB Network
Formally known as The Messianic LAMB Radio
Now known as The Messianic LAMB Video Network
The 'Messianic LAMB Network' is group of interconnected believers in Messiah who live by the principles taught in Torah by the Messiah.
30+ Messianic ministries use the LAMB Network's website (LAMBNetwork.TV) and social media accounts (Facebook and Twitch) to bring their message of Torah in Messiah to you and the world, either individually or corporately, with the sole purpose to promote unity in the body of Messiah.
Objectives:
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To reach the world with information about the God of Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaacov as is discovered in Torah.
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To make disciples based on this information in a way that can be understood by people of all generations, genders, race and belief systems throughout planet Earth.
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To provide a simple understanding of how to live a Messianic lifestyle based on a belief in Yeshua as Messiah.
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To show a support and advocacy of the work God is doing with Israel.
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To provide a place for ministries / teachers who do not have a format / place to present (what Mark Smith considers as…) their message of integrity.
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To provide special event programming for:
- Moedim
- Conference Events
- Speakers from outside The LAMB Network
Mission:
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To empower our audience with the tools they need to survive, flourish and influence an ever-changing, ever-evolving world that does not acknowledge the God of Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaacov and His Messiah Yeshua.
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To promote other ministries of integrity.
Structure:
Original format (March 2012 through October 2018):
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Audio broadcast only through the LAMB website
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LAMB Radio originally played continuously
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24 / 7 / 365
Present Format (October 2018 through present day):
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Video telecast only through the LAMB website & other social media
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The LAMB Video Network plays continuously
- at least 12 hours / 7 days a week
The LAMB Network ‘structure’ is unique because:
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There is no other telecasting entity that presents its content in a similar manner, including:
- continuous scheduled content including:
- LIVE video programs
- (and their rebroadcasts)
- Video segments produced from LAMB's own original LIVE telecasts
- (and their rebroadcasts)
- Full video programs produced from previous LAMB telecasts
- (and their rebroadcasts)
- Full video programs produced by ministries outside of LAMB's purview
- (and their rebroadcasts)
Scheduled telecasts through the ‘Streamyard’ software can be either:
- Live
- Recorded outside of Streamyard
- Recorded individually through Streamyard (software used to create telecasts / broadcasts)
- A rebroadcast of a live or pre-recorded show
All content is Messianic based
Comparison / model of format:
LAMB IS A Network
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Like:
- ABC / CBS / Fox / NBC
- Telecasting live content
- Having a website to watch on-demand video
- Of re-telecast live content
- Movies / TV Shows / Events / Sports
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Not like:
- Hulu / Netflix / Apple+ / Amazon
- Having a website to watch on-demand video only
- Movies / TV Shows / Events
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Indifference:
- All the above networks require an account & payments to watch
- All content on The LAMB Network is 100% free to watch
- But is powered by financial support
Website:
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URL
- has been messianiclambradio.com
- since March 2012
- URL was changed to ‘LAMBNetwork.TV’ in June 2021
- messianiclambRADIO makes people see and think ‘RADIO’
- Radio connotes ‘audio only’
- .TV takes the focus off ‘Radio’ and makes people think ‘TV’
- TV connotes ‘video’
- LAMBNetwork.TV URL is a re-direct
- To messianiclambradio.com
(Note: the 'messianiclambradio.com' URL is still used as the base URL that you will see on the website because so many of our faithful audience still use that bookmark)
Pages:
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Home
- Meet The Show Hosts
- About The LAMB Network (this page)
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On-Demand shows
- 7 pages / one for each day of the week
- Lists each show for each day
- Banner linked to:
- Each show’s ‘On-Demand’ page
- Show & Producer information
- Player with latest episode
- Updated every Sunday morning
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Schedule (LIVE Shows ONLY)
- Top section:
- Banner driven information
- Show banner
- Name of show
- Start time (of all 4 time zones)
- Bottom section:
- Spreadsheet format of all 4 time zones
- Separates live shows & non-live shows
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‘All Show’ Pages
- Show name & Host(s)
- Banner linked to:
- Each show’s ‘On-Demand’ page
- Show & Producer information
- Player with latest episode
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Submit Prayers
- Form used to submit prayer requests & praise reports
- Public Prayer List
- Used to pray during ‘War Room’ prayer show
- The audience can follow along
- Phone View Prayer Requests
- Used to submit prayers on phone
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Donate
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Contact
The LAMB Network Schedule of Shows:
Types of broadcasts:
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LIVE
- (and their rebroadcasts)
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Video segments produced from LAMB's own original LIVE telecasts
- (and their rebroadcasts)
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Full video programs produced from previous LAMB telecasts
- (and their rebroadcasts)
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Full video programs produced by ministries outside of LAMB's purview
- (and their rebroadcasts)
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Events
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Special Moedim broadcasts
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Edited segments from pre-broadcast shows
Types of shows:
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Teaching
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Discussion
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Torah Portion
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Prayer
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Skits
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Segmented
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Interview
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History
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News
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Topical
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Music
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Educational
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Health
The LAMB Network schedule was a 24/7/365 format in the radio years.
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When we had to change to a video format, it took several months to find and incorporate software (StreamYard) that would actually schedule video programming.
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Google Hangouts was used at first but it didn’t allow for the scheduling of shows.
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Without scheduling software, the producers of live shows had to come on at their appointed times, start and stop their intros to do their shows.
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Even though there was a schedule on the website of when the live shows would broadcast, many people came to the website to watch during the time there were no shows playing.
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Few came back.
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I believe that God wants there to be a LAMB Network schedule that is a 24/7/365 format
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This way when anyone came to the website – something would be playing.
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This way the audience knows that The LAMB Network is an active broadcasting website.
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This way they would spend time looking over the broadcasting time schedule of shows.
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Streamyard scheduling software made possible the limited format we have today.
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Financial constraints have limited the possibility of broadcasting 24/7/365.
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Streamyard costs approximately $3000 a year for the limited format
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Another $3000 per year to Streamyard would give us an unlimited format
Final notes:
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The LAMB Network is a righteous entity.
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It has the potential to grow and prosper given the right upkeep, support, marketing, funding, maintenance, and sustenance.
History:
Mark David Smith (owner and all the 'behind the scenes' operations) did his first LIVE radio show on a Saturday in June, 1969. He was 15 years old.
- LAMB Radio broadcast its first song over the internet in March, 2012.
- Eight friends gathered together with a vision to lay aside any doctrine or teachings that cause division
and create a place where they, and others with the same vision could teach, discuss, interview and report newsworthy items in an atmosphere that didn't divide. Once you start a project like this, you find out how many other Messianic believers there are who agree with this type of vision.
- Though these eight people really were the original LAMB 'Network' so to say, we called it LAMB (The Messianic 'Lifestyle Audio Magazine Broadcasts') Radio.
- Over the next seven years, as many as 63 other Messianic believers crossed the LAMB airways to present their message. 34 of those were still broadcasting by the end of 2018. (I personally think those are pretty good statistics)
- The Messianic LAMB Radio '24/7/365 audio format' ran from March 2012 to the end of 2018. (If you do the math you'll see that we are within a year of our 10 Year Anniversary!)
- 2019 started a 'video only' format that allowed viewers to watch only when 'LIVE shows' are broadcast live through the LAMB social media accounts. All our shows are archived and can be watched 24/7/365.
- Out of 33 LAMB show host/producers, 26 decided to make the transformation to video. 4 of the 26 wanted to continue with video, but could not make a commitment to LIVE broadcasting. LAMB decided to 'grandfather' these individuals and allow them to submit their videos (at their convenience) to be viewed on the LAMB website.
- 2018 was a rough year for LAMB Radio. By Sukkot, we were sure that we were going to have to find a new way to get our audio to to the LAMB 'radio broadcasting' mixer or, turn the mixer off for good!
- A close Messianic brother, Paul Nison, (one of the first producers on LAMB Radio) had me on his Google Hangouts LIVE broadcast as a guest one evening during Sukkot that year. I was blown away by how Google Hangouts worked with YouTube. The LORD smacked me up side my head and said, "Well... what are you waiting for?" When the LORD smacks - I listen. Paul taught me how he used Google Hangouts and I taught myself (like everything else) to make it work for LAMB.
- The last three months of 2018, the 26 people who decided to follow LAMB over to YouTube and Google Hangouts, carried that original vision across a threshold into a whole new format - video. Carrying us from 'The Messianic LAMB Radio' into what we now call 'The Messianic LAMB Video Network'. As long as you are being blessed by our programming, then all of us are blessed.
Our Unique State of Perplexity
- YouTube has to be the most popular, worldwide social media platform on the internet. The ability to afford a presence on YouTube should help to establish and maintain any person or group who has video content to share with the world!
- As a network of multiple ministries, we pursue and toil through a very unique issue with YouTube.
- Pretty basically, most channels on YouTube are maintained by an individual entity [one person, one ministry, business or organization...]. Keeping that in mind, when finding a new YouTube channel, it would be more common to expect content from 1 supplier of content - not 30+ different suppliers of content ALL on one channel.
- A new person finding the LAMB Network YouTube, Facebook and/or Twitch channels will probably find themselves asking, "Why are there so many people?" "Who are these people?" "Are these videos just teaching?... Discussion?... Interviews?..." "Are they ALL Torah observant?"
- YouTube has completely banned The LAMB Network account. Censorship is the new way of doing business for corporate America - but not ours.
We get it! That's why there's a website!
- The LAMB Network website helps to explain and answer all these questions and more.
- With 30+ ministries all producing NEW content every week, this website has to be massive and will ALWAYS be under construction.
- Poke around and see what you can find. If you get lost, yell - we'll hear you and come to rescue. But most of all don't be confused about who The 'Messianic LAMB Video Network' is - we are all a group of interconnected believers in Messiah who live by the principles taught in Torah by the Messiah. Gathered and networked together by Mark David Smith (Okay, the LORD Helped) to bring their message of the Torah in Messiah to you, either individually or corporately, with the sole purpose to promote unity in the body of Messiah.
- I've never done any of this before and no one has taught me anything. I make it up as I go along and take all the LAMB producers and all our listeners along for the ride with me. If you find the continuous changes exhausting - I am sorry! My intent is to bring you the message of the Messiah and make it keep on coming!
- My wife says, "Get it to the last place and leave it alone!" The website will never be done. The ministry progresses and so the website progresses. Hopefully you can progress with us and the website.
Which brings us to a new place in the 'history' and 'perplexity' of the LAMB Network.
- The roughness that made 2020 continues perpetually. The world changed / YouTube changed / The LAMB Network did not change.
- Once again YouTube is at the front of the battle. With all the controversy behind covid, vaccines, elections... YouTube's 'what you say' policy is out of control. LAMB has been put in YouTube jail twice now for a total of 3 weeks. One more time crossing the thin gray line and LAMB's Youtube account is gone for good - good riddance - do not pass go, do not collect your video archives!
- When LAMB Radio was up and running, we only broadcast through our LAMB website. The perplexity mentioned in the section above persists when we contemplate broadcasting again through the website - ONLY. But, oh how awesome it would be to be self- sufficient - not having to be under the watchful eye... Do I dare to separate LAMB from the worldly social medias conglomerates? Why not? Many others are doing it very successfully I might add! Truth be told - Youtube will probably make that decision for us first. Because of the constant audience flow, I will not break that bond first.
- Good - I'm glad you agree cause here we go!
- At the beginning of the last condemned detention of the dreaded YouTube captivity, I found that a social media entity, Twitch, did not have the same dire policies that YouTube possesses. And that Twitch, StreamYard (the software our producers use to broadcast their shows) and WIX (the software I use to build our awesome website) all work together. HalleluYah! Glory to the LORD God Almighty!
- Twitch became the new mediary (go between) that allows LAMB to broadcast all it's content (even what would normally be censored) straight through the website!
- My goal of one day being able to broadcast continual streaming content is now very close at hand.
- Baby steps are in order. With an enormous amount of work preparation ahead of time and a lot of hands on work during, LAMB will soon be broadcasting in short 3 to 4 hour blocks with continuous content.
- Starting with a few easy beta tests of 3 hour time spurts, they should tell us how all this will work.
- As of May 21, 2021 it looks as though all systems are go for our first beta test in a couple of days.
- More to come!