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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

For the first time ever, the Rock community united in one location under one vision, at RX2015. Read more

As first announced at RX2015 this week, Pushpay and Spark are working on an integration to bring digital giving opportunities to Rock users everywhere! Read more

Rock users UNITE! You don’t want to miss the first ever Rock conference. Why? Well, read on to find out. Read more

As Rock progresses so too does the technology it rests on. On that note we want to notify the community far ahead of the Rock v4.0 release that this release will require SQL Server 2012 or better. Read more

In this podcast we discuss the latest news going on not only for Rock, but also many of the churches using Rock. Read more

To every thing there is a season. Today we announce that Rock is entering a new season as a project. This is positive news you won't want to miss. Read more