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Makeni Central SDA

The Team Behind This Website

Built and maintained as a labour of love for Makeni Central SDA Church — here's who's behind it.

Elder Geoffrey Aori
Supervisor

Elder Geoffrey Aori

Oversees the project and keeps it aligned with the church's vision.

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Tiki Chilomo
Programmer

Tiki Chilomo

Builds and maintains the website — frontend, backend, and everything in between.

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Enock Chilimina
Media & Photography

Enock Chilimina

Captures and curates the photos and videos that bring the site to life.

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Under the Hood

What's This Site Actually Built With?

No fancy app-building kits here — this site is handwritten from the ground up. The pages you're reading right now are plain HTML, styled with Tailwind CSS, and brought to life with plain, dependency-light JavaScript — no heavy frontend framework doing the thinking for us.

Behind the scenes, a Node.js server running Express handles every request, while a MongoDB database (via Mongoose) stores everything from discussion posts to event listings to church leaders. Photos and event posters are hosted on Cloudinary, outgoing emails travel through Nodemailer, and passwords in the admin system are protected with JWT and bcrypt.

The whole thing lives on GitHub and is deployed straight from there to Render — so every update Tiki pushes goes live automatically, usually within a couple of minutes.

HTML5 Tailwind CSS JavaScript Node.js Express MongoDB Cloudinary GitHub Render