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We use Google Calendar for
We use Google Calendar for events. Gcal events was just clunky, and Google Calendar is too powerful to not use.
Pastor Dale
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Integrated or external link?
Agree Google Cal has great functionality. But I would prefer to have it better integrated into a drupal site.
How do you handle that? Do you just link to the google cal? Or do you embed it into your site somehow?
I just use Google's embed
I just use Google's embed code. It's pretty powerful. Don't remember where it is, but it's in your Google Calendar in settings or something. Check out our site http://shepherdoftheridge.org for an implementation. I stripped it down quite a bit to make it fit in the sidebar on smaller monitors.
Pastor Dale
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Good Idea on the Calendar
I use Google Calendar on our church site and I'm planning to migrate it to Drupal soon... I may "borrow" your idea and use the event list for blocks rather than calendar view. http://www.montevallofbc.com/calendar.html is how I use it now...
One thing to check - your location of "Sanctuary" for services is mapping to Sanctuary Texas and some of the others map to places I suspect are not your church. May not pose a problem, just FYI...
Membership Directory
I would recommend having a membership directory that is only available to Church members. You could have a registered user that users could self register for, but does not give them access to this directory, and use the Role Apply module (I think that's what its called) to allow them to apply to Church staff to be upgraded to Confirmed member, granting them access to the Church Membership Directory.
Scripture popups
I really like the scripture popup functionality that was described in this post on drupal.org awhile ago.
http://drupal.org/node/315932
They were able to create database tables for publicly available Bibles in several languages and then use regex matching and jquery to put in these popups giving the scripture when you hover over a link. It turned out pretty cool. I wonder if this could be turned into a module. I talked a little with the developers, but they said they have no time for it right now.
Check out NETBibleTagger
Check out NETBibleTagger http://labs.bible.org/blog/netbibletagger_drupal_module
We use it and are pretty impressed.
Pastor Dale
http://crossfeednews.com/podcast
If the idea of the ministry
If the idea of the ministry groups is to have a place for the groups to collaborate, I think this may be best as an Open Atrium site. My church has rolled an OA site for ministry teams and it is great. We are trying to move our main web site to be a public facing marketing/info/welcome site for the church.
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