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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.

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!

Hi there!

I am new to this group and am in the process of trying to put together a community site for students, past and present on an ordination course.

It would be good if it was possible for individuals to send an email to their own year group, or any other year for that matter, but I have been unable to work out a way of doing this within Drupal. I am looking at integrating mailman but have not got far on this yet as it is currently not available on my server.

I believe it may be possible to do what I want through groups. Has anyone done this?

Jon

Over at our church site we have a list of Bible QAs which was created using views. We want everyone to access to it. For some reason only admins do. But the content in the views can be access by anyone just not the actual page created with views. Looking at the access control I cant see any reason why everyone shouldnt be able to access it.

Any ideas here on what I could be missing?

Hello,

We're starting a new site using Drupal, and I'll have many questions for your expertise, but one question I initially had was if you had any information how to do an annoucments page. Here is our current church website: http://annarbor.hmcc.net/

We want to do something similar on the homepage and also have a seperate page to do the annoucments. Anyone doing anything similar to that, that has a way of doing they could lend us? Thanks!

Looking forward to working w/ you all!

Does anyone know of a good setup for tracking church members, attendance, finances, etc. with all the bells and whistles that a church could use?

My first image was drupal with civicrm. Anyone have any experience with this? Or, know of something else?

Howdy everyone - Been on this group for a few months now. I have looked at several CMS's and tried to use several to develop a church website. After spending a little bit of time with Drupal and seeing other sites that use it, I am very interested in using it for our church.

Specing out a Web site within Drupal is a lot of work. I'm finding that I almost have to build the Web site first, before I can confidently write the spec. Anyone else have that experience??

I’m in process of doing a ton of research and testing in an attempt to put together a church distribution. I’d appreciate any comments/critiques/recommendations. I even have some unanswered questions that perhaps someone can answer.

The requirements for this church Web site are below. My comments/questions are in parenthesis underneath each listed requirement: