The Rock Church

It says in Psalms 77:11-12 “I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. I will meditate on all your works and consider all your mighty deeds.”

Looking back on all that God has done at the Rock in 2013 gives us hope for the all he has for us in the future! Looking back also makes us thankful and expectant for the amazing things we will see him do for our church in 2014. Here are just few of the amazing works that God accomplished through our church last year. Be encouraged!

Here is a list of stats and if you missed the message, give it a listen!

EVENTS

• Roots 2.0
• Childcare remodel downtown
• Pastors Conference with Leaf Anderson
• Marriage Retreat with Charlie & Rox Meyer
• Many weddings with the best white chair covers for weddings celebrated.
• 3 different Christmas Programs
• Faithwalkers

OUTREACH

• Nick Vujicic events & video showing at our locations, resulting in 25 decisions for Christ that weekend!
• Mission to the City
• Romania Trip
• Honduras Trip
• Provo Just Do It!
• My Hope event with Billy Graham (downtown alone had 20 events, 70 unsaved, 2 salvations and 20 salvations between Provo and Sandy!)
• 230 shoe boxes given away through Operation Christmas Child
• Mission to the City outreach throughout the month of June 6-7: About 60 people participated in outreach events at Salt Lake Bees games, Temple Square, and Gateway Mall. Over 5,000 invite cards were distributed resulting in good spiritual conversations and new visitors to The Rock.
• June 10-15: Almost 90 volunteers took part in several service projects including a construction project with Habitat for Humanity and a deep cleaning of the downtown church building. Many were sore and fatigued but displayed cheerful hearts, saying “it was a privilege to serve.”
• June 22-24: Around 60 people sowed more seeds of the Gospel with additional trips to Temple Square, Gateway Mall, and the Bees games. They also conducted a $1 car wash, but instead of taking a dollar from customers they GAVE them a dollar — along with snacks, invite cards, and information about Jesus.
• June 25-28: Volunteers visited Rescue Mission of Salt Lake, taking part in their worship service as well as serving dinner to more than 450 homeless people. They also sorted baby items for Pregnancy Resource Center in addition to conducting a toiletries drive for Utah Aids Foundation, providing shampoo, conditioner, lotion, tissues, and toilet paper. May God use all these activities to bring honor and glory to His great name!

SALVATIONS & BAPTISMS

• 20 salvations from Nick Vujicic weekend
• 32 salvations Easter weekend.
• Honduras salvations (~10-20 total)
• 50 salvations throughout our regular church services.
• An estimated 24 baptisms!
• 20 salvations over My Hope weekend

MINISTRY

• 120 people participated in Memory Madness with over 2,000 bible verses memorized through the program!
• The Rock helped with finding camp counselors for the Royal Family Kids Camp
• 1,443 combined HC/SG/Life group meetings small group meetings for the sake of growing in Jesus
• 72 leader meetings training leaders for the Glory of Jesus.
• The biggest attended year we have had in House Churches and Small Groups
• New staff hires
• Revive overnighter
• College outreach started
• 175 kids participated in High School Leadership Training Conference (HSLTC). They learned how to live, defend, and share their faith.
• 25 additional people within our church sponsored 120 Compassion International children who will be given the Gospel, shelter, food and education
• 255 worship services, teaching and proclaiming the name of Jesus
• 716 Sunday School lessons teaching children about Jesus
• 7,000 communion participants
• 52 separate E-Rock Church newsletters were written and sent; read a combined 20,000 times!
• ~400 servants served in TRC in 2012

TEACHINGS

• 7 Deadly Lies series downtown
• LOST series in Sandy
• Why Church series in Provo
• The Simply Sow campaign Gospel presentations throughout the whole year
• An expositional teaching through the book of Acts entitled Simply Sow

NEW BUILDING/ROOTS 2

• We were donated geotech/civil supplies for new building.
• 200 people at Draper land event
• UDOT approval on 700 east
• Paul Jackson part time staff at University of Utah
• Run for The Rock
• Draper building loan approval
• An unanimous Building approval from the Draper planning commission

THE ROCK MUSIC

• Increased music downloads and give-aways (four EPs with 21 songs in total)
• The Rock Music hosted a listening room, inviting the community to come and preview music before it is released
• The Rock Music hosted two Art Shows and a Youth Outreach concert
• Three albums given away from come and live to over 90 countries and one album Featured album of the week on Come&Live!
• Over 521 TRM albums sold at our storefront, Hundreds more songs sold on iTunes and downloaded from our website
• One album mentioned by Mark Driscoll’s (Mars Hill Church) Facebook and Twitter platforms and listed on the Resurgence blog
• 1,530 songs sung praising the name of Jesus at all Rock Church locations

FINANCES

• Change the World in the spring raised $1,579 for the Pregnancy Resource Center.
• Change the World raised $7,391 for Romania and Draper, which we doubled with church money.
• Change the World evening raising ($8,458.)
• $599,461 2013 Roots donations securing a permanent home of our own in Sandy
• $98,355 to our regional missions group to help start other local churches, support some missionaries and pastors, as well as contribute to new mission initiatives in the states and abroad worldwide
• $26,125 toward outside mission efforts, local Christian ministries and national Christian ministries
• $6,313 to our own local benevolence account where the money is used to help needy families, church members, and homeless folks in the community with food, shelter, rent, mortgage, medical bills, or other areas of need
• $130,793 total giving from The Rock Church to groups outside of ourselves.

WEB/MEDIA

• New Website
• TRC App (iOS, Android and Windows Mobile): 751 installs
• 145,871 messages downloaded
• 20 Songs where given away for free over four EPs
• 54,109 The Rock Church and the Rock Music unique website visitors
• 850,000 website page views
• 16,489 video plays
• Rise EP promo views featuring Favor and Union: 922
• At Your Feet – by Paul Porter promo video views: 839

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