It’s been forever and a day since I’ve blogged seriously, though I doubt anyone noticed. Either way, here’s why I haven’t been around:

In January, we launched our new Ministry Center. This building is used for Children’s Ministry on Sunday mornings and small groups throughout the week. It features two theatres and a complete streetscape on the lower level. Below are some pictures from our very own Aaron Thomason of ARC Studios and Cogun Inc. (or click HERE.) I love this building. 

In January, we launched Rock Bridge PM. This Thursday night service features the same great service as Sunday morning (preceding, not trailing). We chose Thursday night because it reaches a completely different audience. We live in an area overwhelmed by carpet mills and support industries. Because of that, a lot of people in our community work the weekends. Thursday night gives them the opportunity to come too!

In January we launched a new logo and started work on a completely new website. We decided that our previous logo didn’t accurately represent our identity moving forward. It wasn’t particularly distinct and wasn’t identifiable without our name. We wanted something that people would immediately recognize and captured our identity well. Click HERE to download wallpapers for your computer or iPhone.

For our website we wanted our developer to be the best of the best and a site that would allow us to support multiple campuses seamlessly and intuitively. We chose to partner with AM Design. Their previous work speaks for itself with websites for Passion Conferences, John MacArthur, AT&T and Watermark Church among many others. We’ve spent a lot of time working on an all new site map with some great new features and a new way to organize all of our content. We expect it to be easier to use and more effective at communicating who we are and connecting people to the community here at Rock Bridge. We expect to launch in mid-summer and can’t wait to see what the final project. (Secretly, we’re toying with some options for mobile applications as well.)

In February we launched Rock Bridge Chatsworth, the newest Rock Bridge multisite campus. Launching on February 28th, Rock Bridge Chatsworth meets at North Murray High School…in the cafeteria. I guarantee, however, that you’d have no idea you were in a school if it didn’t say so on the side of the building. The amount of volunteer work that goes into transforming that environment is nothing short of incredible. Here are a few shots of the incredible transformation.

In January, we launched Rock Bridge Fuel in print and online. This weekly devotional was designed specifically to target topics and scripture passages that match the weekly message and allow for people to easily dive deeper into the scriptures on their own. Of all the things we’ve implemented to encourage spiritual development, this has to be one of the most successful.

So yeah, we’ve been very busy. I’ve got topics busting out of my head so I hope to get back to blogging soon. God has blessed us incredibly through this season and we’ve seen significant growth because of it.