A Brief History of The Rock 

After 23 years of youth ministry, Pastor Cliff and Wendy Williams felt led to plant a church in Nampa, and in 2002 moved here, along with six other families, to start The Rock.  Our Grand Opening was Easter, 2003 at Roosevelt Elementary with over 100 in attendance. We met in several different schools over the last few years, and we currently meet at Nampa Christian School, with an average attendance of 170 adults and 80 children on Sunday mornings.

Dusty Benner, his wife Chandra, and their family, joined The Rock staff in September 2006 as the Student Ministries Pastor. Dusty and Chandra are are now leading a church plant team in Boise, Idaho. Their new church, Sojourn Alliance Church, is the first of what we hope are many churches planted out of The Rock! 

Jake Williams has been on staff as the Children’s Pastor since January 2006, and works with the Rock Stars, our children's program.

Each year, we do several community outreaches, including an Easter Egg Hunt, Water Giveaway at the Stampede Days parade, VBS, and a Downtown Halloween Outreach. We have also sent many people in the last few years on short-term missions to Mexico, El Salvador, Africa, Chile, Seattle and the L.A. Dream Center, and partner with churches and/or the C&MA in many of those areas.

In the summer of 2006, we purchased 18 acres of property on Happy Valley Road, including an existing house and 2 large outbuildings. The church offices operate out of the house, and the 2 outbuildings have been converted to a youth/event facility and a facility for our community free clothing store and food bank. We began our Giving Campaign (The Best Is Yet To Come) in February 2009, and are working to pay off the land and begin building a permanent church facility on the property.

In July 2008, Pastor Cliff Williams was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) and officially resigned as Senior Pastor May 31, 2009.  He went home to be with the Lord February 18, 2010. 

David Underwood, his wife Lisa, and their family moved to Nampa in September 2010, from Kent, Washington, to begin serving as senior pastor of The Rock.