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Have a chance to 'Ask the Architects' in this episode of the ROCKCast podcast. Read more

The word on the street last year was Rock RMS. Or at least the word among churches, according to Director of Information Technology for Bel Air Church, Jeremy Turgeon. Read more

Although neither Robbie nor Matthew would consider themselves developers, they have plugged in to the Rock community and discovered a shared knowledge base and interactivity that has propelled their administration forward. Robbie is quick to point out how important community is in the Rock project. “Going to RX2015 helped us network with the folks that really know what they are doing, as well as with the newbies that we could better relate with.” Read more

Learn about the v5 update and what's new with the core team. Read more

This one has been a long time coming. We're excited to finally announce the Pushpay API integration, something the community has been widely anticipating since the conference last October. Read more

Last week we unveiled some powerful registration tools that will help you get your spring events calendars under control in Part 1 of this post. This week, we get to bring it all together with a look at how registrations tie into calendars in Rock. And how all of that will quite simply revolutionize your approach to managing, and actually enjoying, events at your church. Read more

Springtime is event time in the church world. Creating and managing events, registrations and payments can be confusing and consuming. Not to mention juggling multiple calendars. As former church staff members, the Rock team knows this first hand and recently released a feature set that could make your spring events a breeze. Read more

Has someone ever moved your cheese? How about your CMS? If that thought makes you break out in a cold sweat, you need to meet Bronson Witting, Director of Information Technology at NewPointe Community Church in northeast Ohio. Read more

We need each other. A book published a few years ago for churches about social media and the journey from paper publishing to Google points out that churches (and all groups) are much less successful in attracting and keeping members if they don’t provide equally for their members to receive something of value and to contribute something of value. That’s true, but we’d don’t think we can stop there. Here are the four reasons we believe we need community and how we’ve built it into Rock RMS. Read more

All good things must come to an end, or so we've all heard. And apparently MailChimp subscribes to that theory, as well. As the original developers of Mandrill, the email plug-in currently built into Rock, MailChimp has just announced a change that could affect a lot of us. Read more

Lots to cover including: a financial update, RX2016 discussion and of course how to clean-up from what the Monkey left us. Read more

Olive Branch Church is proving that dedicated ministry work and the right toolkit go together like Batman and Robin. Read more

Lot's to talk about in this episode as we cover the roll-out at Central Christian Church, what we're working on, road maps, the state of the ChMS world and how things are going in 2016. Read more

About two years ago, Seth Thomas, Senior Minister of Northeast Christian Church in Grand Junction, Colorado, attended a conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. Having just stepped into the role of full-time preacher in his congregation of 200, Seth was looking toward long-term stability and health for his church. Read more

Find out the v4 release date as well as several other updates on the Rock project and community. Read more

Rock is all about people. If you've tried out our workflows feature, you know the ins and outs of automated processes to help move people from one state to another. But you may also have discovered how quickly they can become complicated and unwieldy when you're dealing with complicated situations. Sometimes you just need a little bit more. Read more

The power of Rock's tools is the synergy they bring when they work together. And the soon-to-be-released version 4.0 is taking this synergy to new heights. Think events, registration, calendars. If you've ever had to manage all the many details involved in any of these areas, you will find Rock's newest major features the best yet. Read more

Arran France, a 21-year-old from Corby, England, experienced a light bulb moment shortly after discovering Rock as an intern at Hope Church. Read more

Background checks can be a crucial component of security within our organizations these days, and we want you to be set up for success! Read more

Find out the scoop on the conference and several other new happenings in the Rock Community. Read more