After eleven years of delivering the Gospel to the Peoria, IL area, we could write a book "ABOUT RC." So many lives changed, so many people have been introduced to Jesus Christ.

Here's the Reader's Digest version for you. RockChurch began as a vision given to Chuck Tate in '95 when he was living in Tulsa, OK serving as convention manager for Eastman Curtis Ministries and attending GUTS Church. While driving back to Tulsa after a ministry tour in Canada the idea hit. After some prayer and planning, Chuck and his wife Annette moved to Peoria, IL in 1997 to set it off.

On May 31, 1998, RockChurch officially opened its doors for the first evening service. Fast forward to the here and now, 2009. After 11 years and nine locations RC has assembled a team whose hearts are line with the vision, and is beginning to grow...in our very own facility. A number of ministries have formed to meet the needs of a variety of people.

The vision was to have a church for people who don't feel comfortable in church. Done. That's our story, we're sticking to it.

*Chuck & Annette have a four year-old daughter named Savannah and a one year-old boy named Ashton.

Same Message. Different Language.

As you can see from our logo, our branding includes the slogan “Same Message. Different Language.” 

Huh?

The Bible and message of Jesus is relevant to all ages, races, culture, times, and demographic regions.  The way in which we deliver message of Jesus is not.  We refuse to “water-down,” dilute, ignore, or change the Word of God, but we have the responsibility to deliver the Bible in a relevant way to the people and culture we are trying to reach.

The Apostle Paul is our role model for this.  See for yourself below:

Even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people: religious, nonreligious, meticulous moralists, loose-living immoralists, the defeated, the demoralized—whoever. I didn't take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ—but I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view. I've become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into a God-saved life. I did all this because of the Message. I didn't just want to talk about it; I wanted to be in on it!  ~1 Corinthians 9:19-23 (The Message)