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Encouraging and inspiring, this interview with Rock Star Jennifer Troeger will put a smile on your face and motivation in your fingertips. Tune in to hear more about her journey in the Rock community from ... [More] newbie to conference speaker. Rock Partners We are thankful for our Rock Partners and their support of the Rock Community. Visit their websites through the link above to learn how they can help your ministry and confirm that those you work with are as invested in the success of Rock as you are! [Less]

Join Jon, Emily, and Nick as they have a conversation with Scott Ballard from The Summit Church on this Special Edition Rockcast. Scott has been an active member of the community, and shares his journey in the ... [More] church technology world and his introduction to RockRMS. Rock Partners We are thankful for our Rock Partners and their support of the Rock Community. Visit their websites through the link above to learn how they can help your ministry and confirm that those you work with are as invested in the success of Rock as you are! [Less]

Twilio is making some changes to help prevent unwanted spam messages. You may have read about this recent update from Twilio but the messaging is complex. Thankfully, two of our partners (BEMA and ... [More] Triumph) have been on top of this issue, and have broken down what 'US A2P 10DLC' really means. Here are posts that may help you understand the details and decide what next steps are right for you. Read more at the links below. BEMA: https://bemasoftwareservices.com/Blog/twilio-recent-changes Triumph: https://www.triumph.tech/resources/what-does-twilios-us-a2p-10dlc-mean [Less]

Join Jon, Emily, and Nick as they review what is upcoming for the Spark Development team including new and exciting features that are in development, our 2021 classes, RX2021, and the importance of working ... [More] with our trusted Rock Partners. Rock Partners We are thankful for our Rock Partners and their support of the Rock Community. Visit their websites through the link above to learn how they can help your ministry and confirm that those you work with are as invested in the success of Rock as you are! [Less]

Join Jon, Emily, and Nick as they review what is upcoming for the Spark Development team including new and exciting features that are in development, our 2021 classes, RX2021, and the importance of working ... [More] with our trusted Rock Partners. Rock Partners We are thankful for our Rock Partners and their support of the Rock Community. Visit their websites through the link above to learn how they can help your ministry and confirm that those you work with are as invested in the success of Rock as you are! [Less]

On this special edition of Rock Cast, Jon, Emily and Nick are joined by Greg Wiens and Dave Phillips of Healthy Growing Leaders. Partners We are thankful for Rock Partner, Triumph Tech. Your strategic ... [More] partner for carefully-crafted implementations, support, websites, apps and custom tools. Triumph Tech is the lead development partner for Rock RMS initiatives... Learn more about Triumph Tech online. [Less]

Join Jon, Nick and Emily as talk about the release of Rock Mobile. Partners We are thankful for Rock Partner, Fishhook. Website design and service partner... Learn more about Fishhook online.

Join Jon, Nick and Emily as talk about the release of Rock Mobile. Partners We are thankful for Rock Partner, Fishhok. Website design and service partner... Learn more about Fishhook online.

After nearly two years that encompassed everything from concept through development, Rock Mobile v1.0 has been released. However, to provide for the funding of its future development, the roll-out plan ... [More] has changed from its original concept. While the original plan was to open source the Rock Mobile Shell, the Shell will now be available exclusively through a hosted App Factory plan instead of open sourcing it. This change became necessary due to the low funding level of Spark and will provide a sustainable funding model for future Rock Mobile development. The App Factory service will handle the initial deploy of each Rock Mobile app to the app stores, as well as the ongoing Shell updates. This might sound like a big change but it really isn't. The hosting work has to be done. It's extremely technically challenging. It's work most churches aren’t equipped for. A description of the Rock Mobile Shell. While we've worked hard to make building and administrating an app as simple and extensible as possible, the app stores control submissions and deployment. Our team created the Rock Mobile Shell to bridge the simplicity and extensibility of the Rock platform with the rigidity and technical complexity of the app stores. This solution pairs each unique Rock Mobile app with the Rock Mobile Shell. You can read all about these two layers and the App Factory hosting plan on our Rock Mobile page. Building your first app. You can build your own Rock Mobile app or work with a partner to build it for you. The app can be built and administrated in Rock v12 with the very same CMS toolset currently familiar to churches in the Rock community. In either case, once your app is built and ready, the App Factory hosting service will deploy it to the app stores. Download the Rock Mobile Showcase app from the Apple or Google app stores to see what components have been developed to-date. These include log-in, message notes, content channel pages such as messages and blogs, prayer requests, push notifications and more. Rock Mobile v2.0 is currently in development and will include group finder, notes, improvements to calendar, push notifications and workflows, among other features. A note about funding. Rock's donation model is challenging. Last year's donations did not cover the development costs for Rock and we ended the year in a deficit. The Spark board wants our development team to be sure we don't overextend ourselves and has asked us to come up with a plan in which we do not add more features than our funding can support. To that end, features that are not mission-critical need to have some form of sustainability. Providing a way to help churches with the challenging work of publishing their Rock Mobile apps, and an affordable price to fund continuing Rock Mobile development is a win-win for the community and sustainability. The long-awaited Rock Mobile feature set is perfectly positioned to complement your digital strategy in 2021 and the App Factory service model is set to ensure its future success. [Less]

Microsoft continues to bring significant new features for Windows Server. Their Windows Server 2019 is a good example of their innovation leadership. You can read about many of the features on their website. We ... [More] know that upgrading your Windows Server environment is not fun and can have costs associated with it. With that knowledge we attempt to be very slow to require the newer versions (though it’s hard to resist the temptation of the newer features). We’re at the point however, where we need to start communicating sunsetting support for Windows Server 2012. For those still on 2012, we want to give you plenty of time to update. We are planning on dropping support for Windows Server 2012 as of October 2023. While this sounds like a long way away, for your planning we would suggest that you be ready by January 1, 2023. Are you unsure if this news affects you? Don’t worry, it’s easy to see what version you’re running by checking with your hosting provider. [Less]