The NewSpring Church, a Southern Baptist megachurch in South Carolina, was facing challenges with its rapidly growing presence and multiple locations. The church's technical team had to manage various internal and third-party solutions to keep everything running, but this led to a distributed data system that was not in sync. To address this issue, the team decided to adopt GraphQL as their new technology stack. They were concerned about GraphQL's support for the future, speed, and protecting sensitive user data. However, with the help of Apollo Optics, which provided system analytics, the team was able to identify issues and optimize queries, making it easier to implement GraphQL projects from prototype to production. With GraphQL and Optics in place, the NewSpring team is now looking forward to implementing new features such as subscriptions and transitioning their server to C#.