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Just in time for Christmas, get ready to unwrap all the new powerful Lava 2.0 features in Rock v6 and hear the latest on the 2017 pledge drive. Read more

Join us with NewSpring Church for a run down on all things GraphQL. Read more

Get the details on the first Rock'n Roadshow, upcoming local roadshows, the recent Church IT Network conference at NewSpring in South Carolina, and the recent Whiteboard sessions. Read more

Join us for a run down on the Rock-powered NewSpring Church mobile app. Read more

Did you miss out on RX2016? Don't let that get you down. This year we captured all the conference sessions on video for the first time, and are offering a subscription that will give you access to everything you missed. In fact, your one subscription will give your whole staff access to the video sessions. Read more

Join us for a run down on everything you need to know about reporting. Read more

Get the post conference wrap-up, meet Chip the Rock mascot, hear news about Rock v6, and a few other bits of information from the Rock team Read more

At RX2016 we did a quick walk through of the amazing plugins available in the Rock Shop. We've shared the video of this session below so you can get an idea of what's possible with these tools. Read more

Join the team and guest community hero Arran France as we talk about the recent Rock v5, a few Rock futures, and the status of Spark's donation model. Read more

Heyworth Christian Church has been with Rock since the beginning. A small church with an average attendance of 190 in Heyworth, Illinois, they began looking for a new church management system at the same time Rock beta was released. It was a natural fit. "We took it as a sign and started making plans for installation," mentioned Andrew Lee, head of the technology ministry. Read more

When the vision for Rock RMS was formed almost five years ago, the development and leadership teams at Central Christian Church in the greater Phoenix area were on board. They recognized a solution that would work for their church and wanted to contribute toward the mission of providing access to innovative technology for all churches. Read more

A couple of years ago, 900-member Christ’s Church of Flagstaff, decided to look into a different church management system. Kevin Yoakum, Executive Pastor of this Flagstaff, Arizona-based church had heard about Rock RMS through the grapevine and decided to check it out. Read more

Data security is a hot topic, and one that can make your role in database administration, IT, or church leadership nerve-wracking without the right safety and security measures in place. Read more

Leaders set the direction for their organizations and Lakeside Christian Church is no exception. With an inclination toward technology and the standard set of ministry problems to solve, Lakeside Christian Church’s Director of Administration, Dave Brown, has overseen the implementation of several new applications. From a technology perspective, Dave is kept on his toes. He reports to a lead pastor who is as much at home with Web and SQL development as he is with leading a church to have significant impact in the local community. Read more

“There isn’t one day that I have ever said, ‘Man, I wish we would have stayed with F1.’” 4 Points Church Executive Pastor Austin Barnett looks back on all the work that went into moving to Rock without regret. Read more

Getting the community ready for the summer promotion of Rock and the upcoming test phases of v5. Read more

You couldn’t possibly be an earlier adopter than Morgantown Community Church, a church in Elverson, Pennsylvania with an average attendance of 400 people. After a Google search result pointed DJ Grick, Youth Pastor / Director of Media and Technology, to Rock RMS as a potential church management solution, he did a little digging and figured out how to download and install Rock about a week before the beta was officially released. Read more

As of today, we've put out the call for a Kingdom-minded adventure-seeker to join us part-time in the brand new position of Community Builder. Read more

This post is first in what we hope will be a series of 'lab reports' of new technologies we're playing with. The goal of these reports is to share what we're working on with the goal of getting early feedback and ideas on implementation. Read more

In Rock RMS, individuals and families are at the core of what we do and why we do it. Since they're the foundation of your ministry, it only makes sense people should also be central to how your database functions. Read more