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Welcome

Welcome to the Drupal churches group. This is a group centered around building Church websites with Drupal and a point for members of The Church to go out into the Drupal community. In this group we discuss how to use Drupal, modules to use, integrating other services with Drupal, and the ins and outs of building Church websites.

The Drupal church community extends beyond this group. You can find more information and help in the IRC channel #drupal-churches on irc.freenode.org and on the Geeks and God podcast website.

mdlueck's picture

ParaChat gets Drupal'ized

For several years now, our organization has used ParaChat to hold online group meetings. As we Drupal'ize, ParaChat was a "must keep" item.

Well, I just found out about this...

Drupal ParaChat Module

http://drupal.org/project/parachat

http://coder1.com/articles/drupal-parachat-module

Woo hoo!!! Best of both worlds!!

Thought I would get a heads up to this group. Perhaps this info will help others.

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flickerfly's picture

drupalcon DC - potential church website session

Rob_Feature has put up a potential session for drupalCon DC (in March in Washington DC) on building church websites with Drupal. If you're going to be at DrupalCon, consider registering and voting for the session.

http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/building-church-websites-drupal

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doulos12's picture

SMS

Rob_Feature just tweeted about using SMS with Drupal, and yes, Rob, e-mail is the obvious answer. I don't know why I didn't think of that before!

OK, I don't know a lot about SMS, but am I correct that it's basically just email sent using a specific protocol on the provider's end? I know I can send what I believe is an SMS message to a phone if I know the email address for that account, which is usually something like the phone # @ the mobile provider's domain or some subdomain.

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pastordavid's picture

Acquia Drupal?

I have just been reading about the recently announced Acquia Drupal https://acquia.com/product-matrix

Based on their product matrix it sounds as though one may download Drupal 6.5 with most of the commonly desired modules - well tested - plus some additional custom Acquia features for free with user forum only support.

Could this be the answer that many churches are seeking to bypass the setup hassle and guesswork that a module will or will not work?

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Rob_Feature's picture

Free Drupal Theme Workshop

Start: 
2008-10-11 13:00 - 18:00 America/Detroit
Organizers: 
Event type: 
Training (free or commercial)

This event has now passed. Thanks for all who attended!

Come join us for a totally free Drupal 6 theming workshop. This casual training will walk through building a Drupal 6 theme from scratch, start to finish.

Your group leader will be building a basic theme for a company website based off a Photoshop mockup. He will build the theme and talk about what he's doing and why he's doing it. You can ask basic questions along the way but, due to the compressed timeline of the workshop, we won't stop the workflow to answer anything extremely complex (or go off in directions that don't pertain to the theme being built).

  • Where?
    St. Matthew Lutheran Church
    2040 South Commerce
    Walled Lake, MI
    Room 304 (use rear entrance)
    Google Map
  • Date: Saturday, October 11, 2008
  • Time: 1pm-6pm

We aren't providing any food/snacks, etc so bring your own. We will have wireless assuming everything goes as planned. However, we cannot promise that the wireless will be functioning.

Hope to see you there!

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flickerfly's picture

Church Project Management

I've recently come across the storm module. I'm exploring the ability to build a work group collaboration tool around this module along with the use of a variety of other tools. In a non-church effort, I've been researching all sorts of collaboration and project managment web services such as Basecamp, CentralDesktop, ACE, Sharepoint and some more. They've all had their issues in one area or another.

The flexibility of Drupal combined with storm may be able to bring us closer than any other options.

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mfer's picture

Groups on Church Sites

Online groups are quickly becoming a staple of church sites. Some churches are using CMS, like drupal and the organic groups module, to build their groups while others use sites like Church Community Builder to manage their members and provide online groups.

Looking at how some of these groups are setup I notice a number of differences in information architecture. Some of the different IAs are fairly good and meet the needs to of the average user. Others suffer from missing features or are difficult for the average user to find what they are looking for.

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flickerfly's picture

Drupal as Church Management Software (ChMS)

I was thinking about using Drupal for a highly customized Personnel database and thought it sounded similar to a Church Management Software in some way. Has anyone explored using Drupal as a Church Management Software? With CCK and Views what it is, the ability to customize has become rather broad and may be able to handle something of this magnitude. I know some use a CCK/Views ability to manage projects elsewhere and I started the personnel database discussion on the Consulting and Business group.

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doulos12's picture

Related Links Limits

Using the Related Links from the Links module (Drupal 5), I'm running into limitations. These are alredy established nodes, and I'm trying to fix the broken links. The new links are longer than the old ones, and Drupal won't let me make the links longer. Can anyone explain what's going on here, or how to work around it?

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NonProfit's picture

6.4 Video Playback issues

Hi, I'm looking to add some admin-supplied video and can not get it to playback smoothly. I don't know much at all about video, so please excuse my awkward terminology and foolish assumptions.

The Drupal:
• 6.4
JW FLV Media Player 4.1
• Via Filefield + jQuery

The Media:
• High-quality DVD Video
• Half a dozen vids + a dozen audio tracks
• Length is about 4 minutes each

The Encoding:

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mdlueck's picture

Trying to come up with a private Journal module

Greetings-

We have a need to come up with a Journal module for Drupal 5.x. I thought to start with Blog from the Drupal Core and adjust that to come up with Journal.

The trouble comes that Blog is very public, whereas Journal needs to be private on a per user basis, with possibly admin oversight. (I envision a check box on the "Access control" to enable this "root capabilities" mode.)

I keep trying suggestions, and always it seems when the suggestions do not work, then the last resort suggestion of installing one of the Access Control modules (TAC or TAC Lite) comes up.

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doulos12's picture

Laconica

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.

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aarontx's picture

New member / new site for review

I am the Worship Leader / Technology geek at a mid-sized church, and recently put up a site on bluehost.com running Drupal.

http://www.heritageauburn.com

Any constructive comments would be great. It is a work in progress as we have yet to add any real content and it is basically a header page.

The default rotating images I am currently using from the nitobe theme will eventually be replaced with our own panoramic / stitched images.

A Brother in Christ,

Aaron G.

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pastordavid's picture

Paypal Setup Questions

Anyone who is offering a link for PayPal donations can probably answer this question.

What type of PayPal account should we set up for our church?

Personal, Business, or is there one specific to non-profits?

Thanks!

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MatthijsG's picture

A good set of icons / logo's for churches?

We are building a site for a church. However, we need a consistent set of icons that is church-related. I can find icons with houses, people (for activities), but no one that are specific church-related.

Does anyone here know a good place to get some graphic stuff for churches?

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Building a Drupal Site is Like Building a House

So you've heard that you should use Drupal for your church website, but you're not really sure to begin. You look at the Drupal website, and you see all kinds of download choices, with modules and themes, and you're trying to wrap your head around all of these concepts, but it just isn't quite clicking for you. What you need is a simple analogy for how all of these pieces work together.

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micahw156's picture

Dev or No Dev?

The other day, Bob Christenson posted a question on Twitter about development versions of modules.

Anyone know of a way to track new official #drupal releases(not hackish, unusable dev versions). The problem is, not all dev versions are bad

Since the question affects a lot of topics we've been discussing in the Churches Group, including conversations about building install profiles, I've decided to write about it here.

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flickerfly's picture

How do you do your sermon podcast?

I haven't done this myself yet so I shant comment. In trying to figure out what sort of questions a church new to using drupal might ask, I happened on this one. "How do you do a sermon podcast?"

Perhaps those actually doing this could share their version of drupal, the modules they depend on and any other tip that might be appropriate in helping others complete this task. This will help us build up resources for others to get started. It might even be a good start towards the case studies we'd like to build up or be something we could start formatting into a wiki page.

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mfer's picture

Homepage Redesign

It's time for the Churches group to have a solid homepage. ebrittwebb started the move towards using panels to display the groups information, posts, polls, and other stuff in ways that aren't just a river of news. I'd like to take this a step further and incorporate the types of things you, the groups users, use along with what would be good for potential new people to the group. So please, let me know what types of information you'd like to see at a glance and what types of information you think would be good for new comers. Making this group as usable as possible will be important in making this group as useful as possible.

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flickerfly's picture

Feasibility of the Average American Church Running a Website

I'm pulling mfer's comment out of a discussion to start a new one so it doesn't get lost. (I think part of the answer is us answering the question!)

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