Rock RX

RX Vision Sessions

Bridging the Gap Between Leadership and Rock Teams

Get an inside look at what makes vision-driven ministry possible when leadership, communications, and Rock teams truly understand one another. Executive pastors and Rock/digital leaders from two churches share cross-role perspectives on trust, clarity, and collaboration, revealing what each side really needs to move faster and build better. Walk away with practical language and mindset shifts to close the gap between vision and execution at your own church.

James Byers & Adam Hann

LCBC

Beyond Chemistry: Staffing for Scale

Most church leaders hire for charisma and fit. Early on, that feels right, but leaders who scale hire differently. Your early team needs someone who holds both vision and details: an operational systems thinker who builds the infrastructure your growth depends on.

Emily Forman

Executive Director

Triumph Tech

Ministry By Design

Learn how your church can align its ministry and digital processes and use Rock's tools to support this unification.

Brad Erb

Ministry Analyst

Triumph Tech

Data Views and Reporting Strategy

Essentials

Rock reporting offers something for everyone. This session will explore Rock's vast reporting suite, from data views and metrics to 3rd party visualization tool integrations. We'll discuss how to put the pieces of reporting together in a way that is organized, clear, and repeatable so that our churches are equipped with the data they need to make informed decisions and serve people well.

Peter Sanders

Data Analyst / Sr Applications Specialist

Traders Point Christian Church

Holiday Serve Signup | Using Helix, Groups & Group Scheduling for One-Off Volunteer Campaigns

Rock Training

Rock's most powerful solutions often happen when you combine the features that are already there. In this session we will walk through how we used Helix, Groups, and Group Scheduling together to build a custom holiday volunteer signup that serves both the volunteers and the ministry teams. We hope our experience will inspire you to come up with great solutions for your teams.

Karen Rossi & Stan Yoder

The Crossing

Making the Most of Event Registration, Calendars & Groups

Essentials

This session walks through Event Registration, Calendars, and Groups with a practical lens, examining registration template strategy, the common pitfalls of managing registrations, the untapped potential in Rock's calendar tools, and the role groups play as the connective tissue tying everything from notifications to check-in together. You'll leave with practical strategies and real-world approaches that you can bring back and implement right away.

Karen Rossi

Digital Content and Support Specialist

The Crossing

Problem Solving Under the Gunn

Development

When something breaks, everything may feel like pressure telling you to move fast, so in a panic you start changing things until something seems to fix the issue and you move on, but then something else breaks because of that "fix." This session is about having a plan before that moment hits, a way to work the problem when the pressure's on instead of just reacting to it, so it can be calculated, excellent, and effective. We'll walk through real examples, some quick, some that were more puzzl...

Yeşu Chum

Backend Developer

Houston's First Baptist Church

Tearing Down Staff Silos: Building a Unified Team

Rock Training

A successful team shares roles and responsibilities, not living in silos. Teams work best when roles are shared and collaborated on, not hoarded and walled off from others. Do you have silos on your team? If so, how do you tear them down and build a unified team? Learn how Dwell responded to two major staff changes where silos existed, and how we built a unified Rock team.

Tim Nunn

Information Communication & Technology Director

Dwell Community Church

Is That SQL Injection in Your Report?

Development

A system as powerful and customizable as Rock can be a double edged sword. Every layer of protection and security that you can add is one that can be removed as well. Unfortunately, the biggest vulnerability in your system might be sitting next to you in the office. In this session we’ll cover the fundamentals of cyber security and the specific ways you can misuse tools in Rock to create vulnerabilities. In this age of global internet and AI, anyone can be a hacker, let’s not make it easy for...

Courtney Cooksey

Software Engineer

The Crossing EPC

No One Falls Through the Cracks: Mastering Connections in Rock

Essentials

Every church has people who raise their hand to get involved... and then disappear. Rock's Connections feature exists to make sure that never happens. In this session we'll explore practical ways to use Connections to move people from first contact to fully connected — from membership and follow-up to volunteer onboarding. Along the way, you'll see the latest v19 enhancements in action and how they make it easier to spot exactly who needs follow-up. You'll leave with workflows and ideas you c...

Amy Fewkes

Director of Information Technology

The Compass Church

Personal by Design

Rock Training

Same church, same Sunday, two totally different welcomes—because your people are different. Your website? It hands everyone the same brochure. Come see how The Summit Church rebuilt its site and app to actually know who's showing up, using data already sitting in Rock RMS. Your church has it too. Let's put it to work.

Scott Ballard

Director of Digital Strategy

The Summit Church

Dashboards That Get Opened: Designing for Pastors, Not Just Admins

Data Analytics

When the right data lands in front of the right leader, decisions get faster and ministry gets sharper. This session traces Venture Church's dashboard journey from clunky to dashboards that drive weekly leadership conversations — the failed iterations, the architecture that finally stuck, and the design process that made the difference.

David Belk

IT Director

Venture Church

Mastering Email Communication & Workflows

Communications

We’re all busy, our ministries have a lot going on, and our congregations are bombarded with emails. Standard emails get ignored, and creating beautiful ones from scratch every week is exhausting. Today, we’ll cover how to leverage Rock RMS, streamline content planning, write emails people actually read, and empower your ministry leaders to do the same.

Becca Burt

Senior Director, Communications

The Village Church

From Application to Departure: Managing Mission Trips in Rock

Rock Training

Hear how we combined a combination of core Rock features to support mission trips from application to departure. Explore the practical ways we streamlined operations, training, requirements, and communication so staff, trip leaders, and participants could spend less time chasing details and more time focusing on people and the mission.

Kelly Day

Systems & Software Manager

LifeMission Church

Check-In Nuggets: Tips from the Trenches

Essentials

Ten years of running Rock check-in at The Crossing teaches you things the manual doesn't cover. In this session we'll share those nuggets -- and all (ok, most) of them apply to Nextgen, too.

Jim Michael

IT Manager

The Crossing

Stop the Send: From Comms Chaos to Clarity

Communications

Every ministry has valuable things to share, but not every message needs to be sent as an email, text, or push notification. If church communication isn’t organized, people can feel overwhelmed, messages compete for attention, and the most important next steps might be missed. In this breakout, we’ll talk about moving from overcommunication to intentional communication. We’ll explore how to create a monthly communication plan, train ministry subject matter experts, set healthy guardrails, an...

Brandi Myszkowski

Director of Application Development

Christ Fellowship

Steps Talk

Rock Training

This session provides an overview of how Steps can help organize, understand, and support a person’s engagement journey. It explains the value of using Steps to create visibility, track progress, guide processes, and inform decisions, while also outlining the basic considerations for designing and managing a Step Program effectively.

Terri Townsend

Pastor of Systems & Processes

Trinity Fellowship

Working Genius Summary

Staff and Leadership

Learn about the different phases of work. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses that can bless each other when we work together and focus on our strengths not our weaknesses.

Mark Wampler

Rock Software Architect

Watermark Community Church

One Hub, Every Source: How We Outgrew Power BI with AI

Data Analytics

We replaced Power BI with an AI-powered internal platform that transformed how we do reporting. It doesn't just pull in Rock RMS data, it integrates every major data source across our church into one hub, and lets us build custom data sources for special staff projects. This session covers why we made the switch and how it's changed the way our ministries use data.

Tj Peera

Director, Data Insights

Fairhaven Church

Running on Empty

Staff and Leadership

An honest conversation about the exhaustion—and how hard it is to stay in the fight when one visible mistake outweighs a thousand wins nobody saw. The calling doesn't make it easier; it raises the stakes, and there's real spiritual battle behind this work. I've wrestled with all of it. You're not in it alone. We're in it together.

Scott Ballard

Director of Digital Strategy

The Summit Church

Rock, Paper, Passport

Rock Training

This presentation will explore both external and internal Rock tools designed to help mission teams and church members stay connected and informed throughout the life of a trip. We’ll walk through public-facing mission team pages that highlight fundraising progress at both the team and individual level. Additionally, we’ll cover external tools for team leaders to track participant progress, view requirements, and learn how to build, customize, and maintain these pages effectively.

Sharee Bryant

Database Coordinator

Colorado Community Church

From Prompt to Product: A Different Approach with AI

Rock Training

This session is the behind-the-scenes story of what happened with a blank slate, an initial prompt, and a belief that helping our staff understand AI would move Athens Church forward. It's walkthrough of a real-world scenario: how an AI-generated PowerPoint became a live, interactive companion site through iteration and conversation. It's not about the framework of prompts or skills. It's about a different kind of approach to AI. It's not a shortcut for doing the work, it's the tool that help...

Garrison Smith

Digital Information Director

Athens Church

Rock Solid Performance: Common Problems and Solutions

Development

Rock is a powerful, flexible platform that can support ministry in almost unlimited ways. But as ministry and Rock usage grow, performance can fall short of expectations. In this session, we will unpack common bottlenecks and practical fixes to improve speed, reliability, and user experience.

Bill Deitrick

Developer

BEMA Software Services

Texting your church in 2026

Vendors

This talk is given by Clearstream, the SMS provider that fully integrates with Rock. We'll discuss how to implement texting in your church, best practices, legal requirements, and more. We'll also do an interactive demo to show you how it feels for your church members to interact with Clearstream.

Jimmy Britnell

Director of Operations

Clearstream

The Lessons Nobody Taught Me... Technology, Burnout, and Sustainable Ministry

Vendors

Technology can be a great tool for ministry - but with how accessible it's become (especially with our smartphones), it can also lead to unhealthy habits and practices around technology, leading to burnout and leaving ministry. In this workshop, we'll look at three practical ways to sustain ministry in a high-tech age.

Jerod Walker

VP of Sales and Marketing

Intulse

RockOps in 2026: Security and Reliability Best Practices

Vendors

Rock has evolved significantly in the 10 years since its release. Similarly, the technology landscape has evolved, and the pace and intensity have only increased with the advent of widespread AI adoption. In this session, we'll explore best practices for running a secure, reliable, and performant Rock instance in 2026 and beyond. We'll cover the gamut from hosting to application-level configuration, and you'll leave with practical tips for optimizing your Rock environment or talking points fo...

Bill Deitrick

Developer

BEMA Software Services

From Screening Bottleneck to Ministry Accelerator: How Rock RMS and Protect My Ministry’s 3.0 Int...

Vendors

Protect My Ministry recently launched an improved Rock RMS integration designed to make the volunteer screening process faster, simpler, and more seamless for churches. With the new workflow, volunteer applicants can initiate their own background check by texting a designated number, reducing manual steps for church staff and helping ministry teams move qualified volunteers through the approval process more efficiently. This session will show Rock users how the integration works, why the wor...

Ryan Carter

Vice President, Sales

Protect My Ministry

Rock Under Lock

Development

This session covers two key security topics: how admin customizations in Rock can unintentionally introduce vulnerabilities, and how a web application firewall can help protect your instance against malicious requests. Topics covered include: workflows, Lava, SQL, and API keys as common sources of introduced vulnerabilities; the risks of not applying Rock updates quickly; blocking traffic floods (DDoS filtering); stopping known attack patterns using the OWASP Core Rule Set while allowing exce...

Michael Garrison & Thomas Gonzales

Triumph Tech

Creating a Cult (of) Following

Rock Training

In this session, we'll take a look at how following works and what the benefits of following different entities are. You'll leave with some quick wins to take home to your team about how they can use following to increase visibility on relevant people and items

Alex Edmiston

Data Analyst

Spark Development Network

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