Explore our exclusive selection of videos from the RX Conference, showcasing the latest insights and innovations in Rock RMS. Delve into these keynote presentations, breakout sessions, and past RX content to uncover strategies and ideas that will elevate your Rock RMS experience.
Discover how First Principles Thinking can help us strip away assumptions, clarify our mission, and rebuild digital ministry with eternal purpose. This session challenges us to rethink strategies, not for innovation’s sake, but to better serve the Church’s true calling in a digital world.
Explore the latest features in Rock 18 and how they’re designed to support and amplify digital ministry. This session will highlight key updates, new tools, and practical ways Rock helps churches turn vision into impact.
Generative AI is an amazing technology but one that, if unchecked, threatens to overtake our human ecosystems. In this talk, Dr. Gretchen Huizinga lays out a framework for thinking ecologically – and biblically – about systems like ChatGPT, examining the underlying worldview behind GenAI and offering a biblical response to it.
Embracing digital tools and new technology can be confusing and difficult to get everyone on board. In this talk, you’ll learn how to think strategically about digital strategy and how to best integrate digital ideas into your church that align with your ministry’s in-person objectives. I want to help you unlock every staff and volunteer to get engaged in your hybrid disciple-making strategy.
Giving data can be an incredible tool that helps us better care for people. Together we will look multiple ways that giving data can be used, how it can be shared appropriately and what safeguards can be put in place to protect it. Whether you're a senior pastor, a youth pastor or someone who supports pastors with data, this session will help us all get better at leading people in the area of generosity!
Pastors are often not the best at technology often delegating the “techy” things to others. In doing so, they miss the incredible opportunity to utilize data in their discipleship processes. This non-technical session will share practical tips on how pastors can utilize data (and how technologist can share vision to their ministry counterparts).
Leading technology teams in ministry settings requires more than just good intentions—it demands clarity, strategy, and wise stewardship. This session will unpack how executive ministry leaders can make smarter, mission-aligned decisions around technology products and platforms, and how to build healthy, motivated tech teams through thoughtful compensation practices. With so much at stake in this area—from digital engagement to team health—getting it right has never been more important.
Discover the power of Rock collaboration as we celebrate accomplishments and notable awards, showcasing personal and community growth. Learn about the strategies driving exponential value within the Rock community and how each of us can make a meaningful impact.
Join us for the Rock Mobile Keynote as we unveil the latest enhancements in the Rock Mobile platform, and dive into what's coming next.
As technologists we have an ethical responsibility for the tools we create and support. This session will be about broadening the conversation around Al and what it means to be technologists who partner in the shepherding of a church with a focus that is broader than just innovation.
This session is for church leaders wanting to maximize their RockRMS investment. Our panel of seasoned Rock technology leaders will share actionable insights and best practices for optimizing team efficiency, fostering innovation, and leveraging RockRMS to enhance ministry impact. Come with questions on how to empower your team to unlock the full potential of this powerful church management system!
In this presentation, we’ll explore Rock’s next-generation styling system, featuring the new Rock Theme and night mode. We’ll cover our switch from LESS to SASS, the introduction of CSS variables for dynamic theming, and the adoption of the Tabler icon set for fresh, modern icons.
Rock is incredible. It does things that no other ChMS has even thought about doing. But what makes Rock even greater is the amazing community. That's YOU! That's me! Don't miss out on the best part of Rock!
Step into the future of church technology with Rock’s upcoming AI Agent — an intelligent, conversational assistant designed to help you work smarter, not harder. In this session, you’ll see how you can chat with your AI to instantly uncover meaningful insights, surface key data, and even take action right from the conversation. From answering complex questions to automating everyday tasks, this groundbreaking feature will change the way you engage with Rock. Come discover how AI can become your most powerful ministry teammate.
Software conversions are hard—especially when you're coming from a complex legacy system with undocumented features, scattered tools, and organizational change already underway. In this session, we’ll share how our team used Agile principles like iterative delivery, early feedback, and cross-functional collaboration to navigate a Rock RMS migration. From data integrity challenges to user adoption and risk management, we’ll walk through the real-world hurdles we faced—and how Agile helped turn them into opportunities for clarity, alignment, and long-term success.
Discover how Rock’s LMS makes training simple and effective. Learn to set up on-demand classes, automate next steps when trainings are completed, plan an annual class calendar, and create a smooth experience for administrators, students and facilitators—so your teams grow and your ministry moves forward.
Rock is a powerful tool that gives you a lot of ways to impact performance in a negative way if you’re not careful. In this session we’ll take a look at how to identify performance issues and some ways to optimize your Lava, SQL, and Workflows to mitigate them.
In 2023, Kingdomcity decided to migrate to Rock RMS. But with over 40,000 members across 16 countries, this wasn’t just a software upgrade—it was a global transformation of how we care for people, manage data, and build digital infrastructure. This session shares how we approached the migration, what we learned, and what you should know if you're considering a similar move.
AI has disrupted SEO, but the opportunity for the church has never been greater. Learn how to shift from chasing algorithms to equipping God’s people with content that is helpful, human, and shareable. No matter where you are on the journey—just getting started, building at basecamp, or multiplying at the summit—you’ll leave empowered with one practical step to equip your congregation as digital missionaries this week.
We all want to empower and activate our people, but the demands of life are real. How can we flip the script and take training and learning to our people for their need-to-know, need-to-grow moments on their journey?
Learn how Liquid Church and Triumph reimagined the group finder experience using Helix, RockRMS’s modern front-end framework. This case study highlights how user-centered design and modern tools like React and HTMX created a faster, more intuitive way for people to find community. Walk away with practical insights to enhance your own Rock-powered experiences.
Rock is evolving, so the way we create plugins needs to evolve too. Learn about the new pattern and tools to help you create new plugins. Whether you are publishing or just using internally at your organization, you'll want to know these patterns for your plugins.
Ministry leaders wearing multiple hats know the constant tension between Sunday's sermon and Monday's SQL queries. As a Middle School Pastor, Rock Developer & Communications Team Member, I've learned that thriving (not just surviving) in dual roles requires intentional strategies and effective communication. In this session, I'll share my journey of balancing pastoral care with technical demands while avoiding the burnout cliff. We'll explore practical frameworks for prioritizing and navigating competing needs, communication techniques that bridge the gap between technical and ministry teams, and ideas to empower others to share the load. Whether you're splitting time between family ministry and database administration or juggling communications and executive leadership, you'll leave with actionable steps to excel in both worlds without sacrificing your spiritual health, pastoral effectiveness, and technical excellence.
Your Rock instance holds some of your organization’s most critical data, and like everything else on the public Internet, is regularly probed by would-be attackers seeking any exploit they can find. The core team works diligently to integrate security into the core product, but with the flexibility of Rock, even small mistakes in custom code or configuration can have an outsized impact. In this session, we’ll explore some of the application-level threats facing your Rock instance. Through live demos showcasing real-world exploits and how to mitigate them, you’ll leave with practical steps and tools to help secure your Rock environment and protect your data.
Training volunteers, onboarding staff, and running global courses without a proper LMS used to mean countless workarounds, missed follow-ups, and limited insight into who had actually completed the content. With Rock RMS's LMS tools, we’ve been able to centralize our training strategy, empower local teams, and finally track engagement at a global scale. This session explores how we're using Rock's LMS for everything from staff training to future discipleship pathways—and why we’re saying a big "yes" to LMS.
Many churches and ministries struggle with building digital products that truly serve their people. The key is thinking like a product team—focusing on outcomes, not just outputs. By leveraging tools such as a Top 10 Problems List and the Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) framework, and collaborating with ministries, we can create digital experiences that drive real impact for our communities.
This session will review basic Obsidian development and common development pitfalls when working with Obsidian List and Detail blocks in Rock. We'll cover subtle mistakes developers often make—from mis-ordered queries to ineffective column filters—and show how these can quietly impact performance, security, and user experience. This session is for developers who are building or maintaining Obsidian blocks and want to sharpen their implementation skills. You'll leave with practical examples, debugging strategies, and a deeper understanding of how Rock’s Obsidian layer expects things to work under the hood.
This session focuses on helping people in 'behind-the-scenes' roles maximize their impact and influence within their organizations. It covers leadership axioms to help leverage an administrative role to drive positive change and build team relationships!
As Rock admin, you are the trusted guardian of your organization's most critical digital infrastructure and data. Yet, systems are fragile, and the threats of hardware failure, cyber-attacks, or simple human error are ever-present. The line between a minor hiccup and a catastrophic business failure is often defined by one thing: your preparedness to restore Rock. This talk will underscore why mastering system backup and recovery is not just a technical task, but a core professional responsibility essential for ensuring ministry continuity and your own peace of mind.
This presentation offers a comprehensive overview of the journey from the initial concept to the creation of a tool in RockRMS that addresses ministry needs. It underscores the significance of collaboration and attentively listening to leadership's requirements. The development of the 7 Marks assessment tool is highlighted, designed to assist individuals in reflecting on seven essential aspects of their spiritual lives. By utilizing RockRMS tools, the assessment provides personalized feedback and resources to foster spiritual growth. The presentation will also showcase the integration of person attributes, workflows, Lava, and other Rock tools to enhance the user experience and support Venture Church's mission of meaningful discipleship.
Have you ever been in a place where you thought this would be successful? Join us for this session to discover how a clear vision and collaboration between teams led to the creation of The Gauntlet App — a one-stop tool empowering volunteers to lead effectively at student camp. This session will explore the unified “team of teams” approach that brought the app to life and made it a game-changer for camp leadership.
Dive into what's possible with HTMX and Rock, with a peek at the new 'groupfinder' shortcode.
This session will include discussion about best practices and strategies for configuring, managing, and running check-in on weekends. We'll have time for Q & A about anything check-in related. ZPL questions are welcome!
One common way of creating dashboards for church staff, is using Lava to look up Metric values and display visualizations. When you get a list of values from metrics or other sources, there are some powerful Lava filters to let you get the values you need more easily than some of the common patterns you may have seen, and this session will give you a better understanding of how to use them. We'll also cover some visualization options that can help make your dashboards look awesome!
How can we utilize technology to enhance pastoral conversations and empower individuals to deepen their faith? Explore how we're leveraging Rock Systems and Process to make the church more personal than ever before.
Just like you, our staff uses the internal Rock site daily to accomplish many of their ministry tasks. We have always felt that the out of the box design limited us a bit, so we wanted to spruce it up by incorporating a fresh new style guide. This project wasn't all about design because we also used it as a time to highlight various staff meetings, our Staff of the Week winner, quick tips/tricks from support teams, quick links, birthdays, staff anniversaries and more.
Learn about Rock's new Automation system. This provides the same functionality you have with the old Workflow Triggers but adds a ton of new features. All while improving performance.
This session demonstrates how Rocks Shortcode, content components, and content channels work together to create dynamic, data-driven design elements. Discover how to turn your pages into shape-shifting, content-powered masterpieces—no wizard hat required.
Good documentation is a force multiplier. This talk outlines practical ways to scale knowledge, from individual mental models to team-wide systems, using VitePress (Vue). We’ll follow a meta project example from intake to production and build and deploy docs live to show how simple and impactful great documentation can be.
Join us for a casual session exploring what's brewing behind the scenes in Rock RMS. We'll share sneak peeks of upcoming features, exciting new tech, and design concepts we're experimenting with. It's your inside look at where we're headed next!
Let's explore how Rock and Power BI can partner together for high ministry impact. BI tools aren't all about executive dashboarding (though they are really good at that). Data visualization can be used for actionable ministry impact and influence across all levels of your organization. This presentation will walk through the many applications of tools like Power BI to help ministries make informed decisions and serve their people well.
Digital ministry isn’t just about websites and livestreams—it’s a space where real discipleship, connection, and care can happen. In this session, I’ll share what I’ve learned through my own shift from traditional ministry into the digital world, and how our team at LCBC is using digital tools and data to care for people in meaningful ways. You’ll leave with some practical ideas—not a silver bullet, but hopefully encouragement and insight—that you can adapt to strengthen your church’s digital presence and serve your people well.
The "Genius" of having common language to describe the phases of work and how that impacts your team.
Far too often our to-do list, dream-list, bug-list, and feature requests can be overwhelming and never-ending. Although AI can't fix everything, it can help with many things. Discover how to leverage AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT to drastically reduce development time in Rock RMS. - Learn practical techniques for creating reusable AI project memories that maintain context between sessions. - Discover Tips and Tricks that help the AI consistently give good information - especially when you hit the dreaded "Message too long, start again." warning! - See real examples of how AI can help troubleshoot code, design and style pages, mass-update old information, and generate complex queries. - Find out how AI can help teach you, as it improves your code so that you become more proficient. - Walk away with a straightforward implementation plan, and AI prompts, that transforms AI from a novelty into a reliable development partner. - Perfect for busy Rock devs and communication directors who need to accomplish more with limited resources.
When it comes to data integrity, it's best to limit the number of people making edits to profiles. In this session, learn how to use a workflow to empower your staff to make certain profile updates without giving them the ability to edit profiles.
Share insights, ask questions and collaborate in this unique facilitated whiteboard session focused on the experiences of churches that recently launched on Rock, are in the middle of a Rock implementation or are exploring the idea of joining the community.
From Messy to Ministry-Ready: How essentials churches can keep Person & Family data in Rock RMS accurate—using built-in automation to do the heavy lifting.
A lot of the discussions in the Rock community centers around how to customize Rock. I don't think there's another option that is anywhere close to being as configurable. But from the perspective of an small or super-efficient church, it can be a real asset if you act like you're using a different tool - meaning that you use the features in an "as-is" state, without customizing them. This session will take a minimal and optimistic tour of so many native features that don't require customizations - with the hope that it will empower your team to jump into Rock without feeling like you have to worry about spending time on all the configurations.
In this session, we will discover how to turn data into a pastoral superpower. We will learn how thoughtful language, meaningful metrics, and practical insights can help pastors see the people behind the numbers—and take the right pastoral actions. We’ll explore real-world examples that connect data to discipleship, equipping pastors to care more deeply and lead more effectively.
In this session, we will take a hands-on journey through Rock’s Learning Management System, covering everything from building your first course to tracking learner progress. You will learn how to structure programs, design engaging activities, and manage both on-demand and academic learning paths. By the end of this presentation, you will have the knowledge and practical tips to confidently launch and manage your own LMS in Rock.
Have you wanted to know more about the path people are taking in your church? Have you ever been curious what steps people are taking first? In this session, we will help you create a step flow to identify how, when and in what order your church is taking their next steps.
Discover how The Compass Church uses the Steps tool in Rock RMS to track and encourage the assimilation of first-time guests. We’ll walk through how Steps are created, maintained, and viewed, and explore practical ways to report on this data to help ministry leaders follow up effectively and guide guests toward meaningful next steps in their faith journey.
Using the Magnus extension unlocks the full power of VS Code for Rock development, bringing advanced editing capabilities to your fingertips. In this fast-paced guide, we’ll delve into custom snippets, Emmet, and AI to skip the boring stuff, keep your code organized, and generate Lava, HTML, or XAML before your coffee cools.
In today’s fast-paced world of digital innovation, where do churches fit on the spectrum of adoption and effectiveness? Before we can thrive online, we must first build a solid foundation. Just as a house built on a rock stands firm while one built on sand crumbles, our digital presence depends on the right core tools. This session will allow for attendees to discuss the essential communication platforms and practices every church needs to create a strong, functional, and lasting digital “house.”
In this session, we'll dive into how Journeys offers devotional-style readings through curated content and Scripture selections within the Trinity Fellowship mobile app and website making it easy for individuals to engage with God and others at their convenience. We’ll also highlight the discipleship opportunities offered through Journeys as well as the Rock components used to build out Journeys. Discover how to get creative with your own implementation of a ‘Journey’ like feature based on your needs.
We created the Summit Daily Revival experience in our app to help our people build a daily rhythm of Scripture and prayer. Each day includes Bible reading, prayer prompts for our church, a Summit Missionary, an unreached people group, and one another. To encourage participation, we’ve added gamified elements that make it easy—and engaging—to stay connected daily.
This breakout explores how church engagement can be measured through traceable actions (not just attendance, giving, serving, and in a group) and categorized into distinct segments—Exploring, Growing, and Contributing. By identifying where individuals are in their spiritual journey and tracking their movement across engagement levels, church leaders can implement targeted strategies to encourage deeper discipleship. This approach not only helps in identifying trends and gaps in engagement but also equips others to think strategically about fostering a culture of active participation and spiritual growth, as well as narrowing the back door within their own church communities.
Leading a Rock team effectively isn’t about building the biggest team; it’s about building the right team, with the right priorities, for your context. In this session, we’ll walk through how to structure, lead, and scale a Rock team that delivers real ministry impact, whether you’re a solo admin, leading a few volunteers, or managing multiple staff. You’ll learn how to organize your team (no matter the size), prioritize your projects, and communicate your team’s value across your church. We’ll share practical examples from LCBC’s experience building a multi-person Rock team, and how to lead well without burning out.
Discover how we used Rock's Persisted Datasets, Helix (HTMX), and the Workflow Activate Lava Command to create lightning-fast, dynamic group pages on our church website. By combining these tools, we drastically improved page load times and enhanced user experience with modern, filterable interfaces. You’ll walk away with practical code snippets and ideas to boost your own Rock-powered web pages.
In this 10-minute session, we'll take a look at several real-world Helix-based solutions we have implemented at The Crossing, demonstrating how they enhanced user experiences and improved our processes.
There is a lot to Helix and it can be a little overwhelming to start. In this presentation, we'll look at a few examples of easy projects using Helix's ModifyEntity functionality that can streamline your Lava and simplify your processes.
Jesus commanded his followers to go and make disciples. However, he didn’t give a detailed blueprint for how we teach them to obey everything Jesus said and did. In this session we’ll discuss the innovate ways you are helping others follow Jesus.
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