Churches

I am giving a presentation in the morning and am looking for a rumoured install profile for churches. There is a reference in an earlier posting and now it appears to be dead.

Anybody have an clues?

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As you have, no doubt, noticed, this group just adopted a new look. I took advantage of the new panels capabilities to create a number of tabs. This will hopefully help us make even better use of this space. I took some lessons from Drupal Dojo and Drupal in Education (which I did).

Look forward to hearing what you think and how to continue making this group more effective.

This past week Innovating Tomorrow and Mustardseed Media launched a site called The Fishbowl.

There are some postings about modules especially for churches. But none of them are referring to modules which can handle services. Are they existing?

Maybe someone can use CCK etc for this. But is this the quickest / best way? Or are there other modules to give visitors an overview of the services that are coming.

If someone has a site with an example, please put it in the comments!

So I just completed my first Drupal site for my church, http://crossrdschurch.com. I must say that I am very impressed with Drupal. I would love to hear what any of you think of the site. It isn't 100% done, but it is like 99%. I have a few CSS issues to fix and some user access to get sorted out, but all in all it is ready for and is in use.

Hey Everyone...
Just wanted to point out the latest series over at the Geeks & God Podcast. We're currently in the middle of a series called "forming online community" in which we're talking about building a internet based, interactive community for your church or ministry. Currently, we've got 4 episodes online with 2 episodes to go, which will release in the next 2 weeks (yielding a 6 part series)...

Of course, we talk about Organic Groups but we also cover a much wider spectrum of what it means to create an online community.

Check the series out (in reverse chronological order) at: http://geeksandgod.com/podcast-series/forming-online-community

Hope this helps some folks think about creating online community at their church!

EDIT 2:

While I await good counsel here re. the best way to manage the upload and download of video in Drupal I think that I can hard-code HTML to link to videos posted on GodTube the same as we handle a news article:

EDIT 1:

Looks as though my answer is here:
http://drupal.org/project/video_filter

Does anyone have any opinion on the best way to handle image uploads / display for the non-technical users who are the regular maintainers of a church website? One of the big advantages of using Drupal at our church (http://www.stthomasrichmond.org) is that the end users can maintain and add the new content. However, I've always thought that the image handling in Drupal was sub-par and our final decision was somewhat of a compromise.

To me, the choices came down to IMCE and/or the img_assist module. Here is what I think are the pro's and con's of each:

I just edited my Front/Home Page to add a picture and to modify text and layout slightly and it worked OK the first time.

I just wanted to get a picture or two from our Youth Christmas presentation from this morning up on the site right away.

I then returned (same Admin account because my user account had been denied edit access and I didn't want to take the time to sort that out) and tried to Preview and then Submit and in both cases received this error:

"This content has been modified by another user, changes cannot be saved."

Is there a way to strongly encourage posters to include the Drupal version to which they refer in their posts?

Even better would be to also include the PHP and MySql versions as well since all three impact one another in terms of available features and performance.

I am a Drupal-in-Diapers user ... uber-newbie if you will ... and this need for Blog/Forum clarity is hardly limited to Drupal, it is a general challenge when trying to filter the relevance of technology-related discussions online.

I think I carelessly shut off the Log In option using Admin instead of User and now I cannot get into my Web site to edit it! :-(

Access denied
You are not authorized to access this page.

I am guessing there is a back door.

If it is more appropriate please send me private mail.

I posted this in another thread but it may be "lost" there and missed by the one person who has the answer - so I have copied it here. I hope that is OK.

Anyone know how to suppress the display of the Teaser on the Front/Home Page in Drupal?

It is annoying for a user to have to click "Read More" in order to see the whole page.

After this has been resolved the next challenges are:

This last couple months I have been putting together a new blog around church technology and, of course, drupal at http://www.innovatingtomorrow.net.

The goal is to talk about technology and the church with ideas, reviews, how tos, and how it all relates to the church.

What I'm curious about is what people think about the look and what I should blog about. I'm looking to help people. Anything in particular sitting out there I can blog about that will help you out?

I am making my first effort to use Drupal and am building a new church Website.

I am used to simple hardcoding in HTML and have avoided automated Website
apps because I disliked the cluttered code they produced.

The goal here is to build a site that multiple leaders in the church may help to
keep updated and which will facilitate staff, leader, and small group communications.

The prior contracted person failed to produce something usable and the site is now
many months late on delivery - I need to get some pictures and a calendar and
contact info up quickly.

QUESTIONS:

I have a question related to a post from another thread:

As for the topic at hand, I'd like to see more churches integrating forums into their main sites. It's simply extending the community—fellowship and interaction—which is already taking place and introducing it to a potentially much larger audience.

I would like to see some forums take off on our church site.
But I haven't been able to convince the pastoral staff of the benefit of them, so there hasn't been much push from them to others to use such a thing.

What modules have you guys used or would recommend for building church websites? What have you found popular among churches in the past? What things have you found especially useful?

Hey All!
Many of you may know that mfer and I run the Geeks and God Podcast. In the past we did a 10 part series on building church websites using drupal...there was HUGE interest, and lots of questions. People ask lots of questions about drupal on our website, but I figured I'd offer a more "live" way to talk about building church sites with drupal.

So, today I created the IRC room: #drupal-churches (on irc.freenode.net)

Hopefully we can get a little community going in there. I'll be hanging in there anytime I'm behind the keyboard. See y'all there!