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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

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