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Hey guys,

It was great to meet you all at the BoF. I know the issues we all run into is gathering content from the churches we work with. My manager just found a solution that looks awesome to get into instead of sending them an online spreadsheet. It's very user friendly. Check it out: http://www.gathercontent.com/

I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere in a long time so I thought I'd announce the #drupal-churches IRC room. There are a few folks who hang out in that area and if you're already in IRC you may find a bit of community building opportunity in that location or at least some like-minded folks to talk to. See you there. I'm flickerfly in IRC also - Josiah Ritchie elsewhere.

I've been messing around with the Feature module created by Development Seed for Drupal and have gotten pretty excited about it. As a result, I've released a Drupal Feature called sermon. It does what you might expect, puts together a Sermon feature to add to your drupal website. It includes all sorts of neat little bits that I'll be able to use next time I stand up a Drupal church website. I put up three this year so have had the opportunity to play with this.

Hi all, new here, although I've managed and modified a drupal site in the past (no longer active,) this is the first time I've thought of joining any group project here.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.

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.