TL;DR. Equip is a free, open-source LMS built for Bible schools and small ministries. MIT-licensed. Bilingual Russian↔English out of the box — the same course renders in either language depending on who's reading. Self-hostable end-to-end on free tiers. 4 weeks in production: 14 real users, 3 published courses, 3 issued certificates. This post is what's in it, what's wired in, and how it's built.
Why this exists
Small Bible schools, home-church training programs, and missionary-prep tracks around the world run their coursework on paper, WhatsApp groups, or shared Google Sheets. The commercial LMSes either price out small ministries (Canvas, Blackboard), require an IT department to run (Moodle, Open edX), or fight the use case at every step. Most are built for K–12 or universities, not 30 students reading through Romans together.
I wanted an LMS that:
Costs zero to run for a 20–100 student school
