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Hi all, new here, although I've managed and modified a drupal site in the past (no longer active,) this is the first time I've thought of joining any group project here. I've got 23 years development experience for various business applications, with quality assurance, and project management thrown in. I'm our churches Vision Planning Team, which is what actually led me her.

I found a book at Barnes & Noble on church development, so I bought it. The gal at the checkout counter suggested I take a look at geeks and god. And they have their webcast about the drupal church distribution.

The goal of this wiki is to collaborate on "best practices" for drupal for churches, with the future possibility of developing a distribution and/or installation profile.

UPDATE: Check out the updated WIKI page Drupal Distribution for Churches - Features WIKI for more features...

With the recent couple of posts regarding Churches using Drupal (and with sessions/BOF times at DrupalCon DC), everybody might be interested in the recent surveys & results (http://www.goodmanson.com/2009-03/04/the-truth-about-church-websites-and...) a San Diego company (http://www.monkdevelopment.com) has recently done regarding Churches and their use of websites. While it's not specific to Drupal, it's still helpful for those doing websites in the contexts of churches.

We've talked about something Twitter-style for specialized purposes like prayer requests or a church-specific group. Anyone been using the TWiT Army app? Leo talked about it on the latest TWiT. http://army.twit.tv for a demonstration. http://laconi.ca/trac/ for the project site. I haven't used it, but I'm thinking what a great way to stay in touch with people from your church throughout the week.

Lets give some encouragement to the Geeks and God guys, (Rob Feature and Matt Farina) To encourage them, and keep up the great Drupal work, please give their Podcast a vote on Digg.

Great podcast guys, I enjoy the regular updates and it compliments the other Drupal Podcast from Lullabot. Keep up the GREAT work!

Over on the Geeks and God podcast we did a 10 part series on drupal and targeted it at churches. We ran the series starting with the terminology and ran though some more complex things.

Our goal was to ease the entering point into using a content management system and hopefully accomplished that with drupal. You can find out the details of the series and episode breakdown here. Hope everyone enjoys.

Drupal is one powerful tool for church websites. We know that. But, for new people getting into drupal it can be quite a leap and for many who are building church websites in front page a CMS takes a bit to learn.

So, over at the Geeks and God podcast we are going to do a series on drupal. We are starting at the beginner basics and working through what it takes to build a church website with drupal. It's our CMS of choice and we are sharing what we have learned.