What do you get when you mix two primary school teachers, a watchmaker, a weatherman and a school chaplain?

Us! We are the ROCK committee.

ROCK began in 2004 when God gave a vision to James Jensen for a free kids holiday program in Clayton. He had recently been part of a children’s program by the beach which inspired the idea to provide a similar program in Clayton.

James decided to approach his close friends, Nick and Ange Crawley, regarding running the program. Nick and Ange were delighted as they had already discussed running a holiday program in Clayton! Now that the three of them had the same vision, and a heart for doing a holiday program in Clayton, the process began.

To add organisational experience they asked two gents from their church to join them, Peter U’ren and Des Gaffney who had been involved in many hours of children’s programs.

Together we are the High-Five of Clayton holiday programs! Our primary objective is to share the good news of Jesus through free holiday activities for children, teenagers and adults.

Since its inception ROCK has run many summer holiday programs, Easter holiday programs, heaps of church camps, several free trips to see Colin Buchanan perform and now even a program in Leongatha.

The more we run the programs the more we love it and we hope to continue to run more and more holiday programs and other fun activities in the future.

Q: What do you get if you mix these five characters?
A: A bucket load of fun and laughter and the truth about Jesus.