Code forthe Kingdom.Innovate forHis Glory.

The mission of Spiritual Growth Garden is to give every Christian objective tools to better understand their walk, using assessments anchored in biblical doctrine to surface the "blind spots" and "thorns" that hinder intimacy with God, submit them to the Lordship of Christ, and proactively cultivate life in every season.

The roots of Spiritual Growth Garden are in the Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13). Spiritual life is organic, seasonal, and deeply dependent on the Word of God. Django 5 + DRF + dj-rest-auth + SimpleJWT carries the domain logic and a multi-strategy auth stack; React 19 + Vite + TypeScript + Tailwind shapes the front-end feel; i18n was wired from line one, so believers in Mainland and the diaspora both find a home here.

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"But the seed falling on good soil produced a crop, a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."

Matthew 13:8

Using frontier AI to address the moment most believers freeze: when the conversation turns to Christ. Zero-stakes rehearsal, pinpoint feedback. Equipping bold witnesses.

February began with a heavy lift: shipping the entire Garden to Google Cloud Platform. Cloud Run (serverless containers) + Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL) + GCS (via django-storages) + Cloud Build CI, fronted by Gunicorn, WhiteNoise, and Docker so cold starts land in seconds, with Secret Manager holding the keys. The rest of the month went to a feature the Church genuinely lacks: the Gospel Sharing Dojo.

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"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations…"

Matthew 28:19

Just as the mustard seed, "the smallest of all seeds, yet grows into a towering tree," we believe the daily knowledge and God's word that children accumulate will take root in their young hearts. May every child learning Chinese also come to know God's love.

In March I pulled the Kids module out of Spiritual Growth Garden and rebuilt it as a standalone iOS app: Mustard Seed Chinese, made for the next generation of Chinese-speaking children. Bible text comes from the Chinese Union Version (CUV), both Simplified and Traditional; pinyin from WordProject.org. Every character, every verse, builds a small bridge they can walk.

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"The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed… yet when it grows, it becomes a tree."

Matthew 13:31-32

Free worship volunteers from the grind of last-minute media: from a paste of lyrics, a sheet-music image, or a YouTube URL, to ready-for-Sunday slides and a time-synced worship video. Shipping MIT open-source so any small church can produce a Sunday's worth of media in 30 minutes flat.

The pipeline accepts any input: text, a YouTube URL, .pptx, PDF, sheet-music image. Each runs through a Vision LLM dispatch (seven providers, runtime-switchable: Gemini / GPT-4o / Claude / Qwen-VL / GLM / local Ollama) with PaddleOCR as fallback, cleanly separating lyrics from chords and notation. oemer handles OMR (Optical Music Recognition), cropping detected sheet-music staves onto each slide with a draggable lyrics textbox below. No re-rendering. The pixels are always your original upload.

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"…when the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy."

Job 38:7