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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.

jwatson3d's picture

New Site - St. Matthew's UMC and The Rockingham Church

We've launched our new Drupal 6 website (http://stmattumc.org) after four months of planning, organizing, building and testing. I have many years of technology experience but this was my first foray into Drupal. Our team consisted of six volunteers who meet "virtually" using Skype and Microsoft's SharedView (http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=94). I hosted a sandbox to play in using a machine in my house that's running CentOS 5.3.

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rpeters's picture

Adding the Color Module

I am turning all the free webempoweredchurch templates into Drupal themes. I am trying to implement the different styles for each theme. Could someone point me in the right direction on how to use the color module.

Robert Peters

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jsquyres's picture

Drupal integration with Parish Data Systems (PDS)?

Does anyone out there use the Parish Data Systems (PDS) suite of software? (http://www.parishdata.com/)

We use it at our church to manage all of our parishioner data (specifically, the Church Office application), and were wondering if anyone has ever tried to establish some kind of link between the PDS database and Drupal. Specifically, we'd like to be able to allow parishioners to create accounts on our Drupal site -- but only parishioners. For example, if account creation could be verified against a parishioner listing in the PDS database (or, more likely, an exported set of data from the master PDS database) in some way, that would allow us to know that all authenticated Drupal users are actually parishioners in our church.

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Chris White's picture

bogus account requests

We have received two bogus requests for accounts and denied both, but I would like to know how to set things so these account requests don't even make the queue for our admins.

Specifically I wonder whether it is possible to require, for example, to require that the first and last names fields differ, that the zip code must be either 5 or 9 numbers, or the phone number must have 10 digits with either spaces or dashes. Any of these--or a combination--would have defeated the requests.

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doulos12's picture

Task/Volunteer System

I'd like to set up a system on our church website for members so I and the leadership can post tasks that need to be done, and members can "claim" that task. It should allow for repeating tasks and allow members to choose to do it once or ongoing. I'm wondering whether a classifieds system would work. Other suggestions?

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boyfly's picture

New Site - First Baptist Church of Wichita, KS

After 18 months of volunteer development work we launched a new website for our church, First Baptist of Wichita, Kansas. It was a great learning experience and we are all big fans of Drupal as a result. Comments and/or questions are welcome!

The site is at http://fbc-wichita.org

The site was built with Drupal 6. The theme was built from "scratch" starting with the blank Zen theme. Modules in use are:
Audio - for importing sermons
CCK & Views - used in a couple places but not as much as we probably should have
Path - to make nice URLs!

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Chris White's picture

getting a library database on the site

Hi,

The good folks who manage the my church's library have created an Excel database and they would like to see it on the website (uufames.org). Here is a link the person who is helping them provided: http://sites.google.com/site/uufalibrarycardcatalogtest/

As you can see, what this person has done is to export "printouts" of the Excel file that has been sorted in 3 ways. This seems clunky and weird to me, but I am not quite sure how to proceed, so I'm asking your advice.

Here are my assumptions and questions:

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pamreed's picture

What happened to the church list?

I thought there use to be a page that had a list on of churches the are using Drupal. I can not seem to find it anymore. Can some one help me on the location. It was a great resource for looking at what another churches did and are doing using Drupal.
Thanks.

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Chris White's picture

Free Drupal Training

Start: 
2010-02-06 13:00 - 17:00 America/Chicago
Event type: 
Training (free or commercial)

You are invited to attend an informational, hands-on workshop sponsored by the Iowa Drupal Users Group (aka DrupalCorn) and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames (UUFA).

Michael Hofmockel will offer information about setting up Drupal websites and guide participants through a Drupal install and a basic website creation.
Chris White will present a case study based on the UUFA website.

DrupalCorn members will be on hand to answer questions and help you create your website.

When? Saturday, February 6, 2010, from 1–5pm

Where? At the UUFA, 1015 N. Hyland, Ames, IA

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flickerfly's picture

#drupal-churches IRC Room

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.

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Branjawn's picture

Need some advice, ideas on node creation for directory

So, I have a website for a church. Each person (adult and children) have their own account.

I need to build a directory, with photos. This would be easy for a company directory, but we need 'family' photos to be available here and persons grouped together.

My initial idea goes something like this: create "family" nodes using address as the unifying data. And, that's about as far as I've gotten. I really can't wrap my head around how to do this. Please help me brainstorm!

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rpeters's picture

Theming cck

Does anyone know of a way in the create content section to have two columns I have never seen it, but need to be able to do it. Thanks

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rpeters's picture

Essential Modules for Drupal

What are the essential modules for a church community driven website?

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ccweaver39's picture

Drupal hosting?

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering, what hosting do you use for your Drupal church installations? Our pastor wants us to stay away from GoDaddy because of their questionable advertising in the past.

So, what hosting services are you using? Are you happy with them? Are there any that you have had bad experiences with and want to stay away from?

Thanks!

  • Cy
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pastorjayrich's picture

Attendance tracking for Users or CivicRM?

Does anyone have a good way to track metrics like attendance, baptisms, etc.?

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pastorjayrich's picture

Freedom Valley Tulsa Launch

Site: http://freedomvalleytulsa.com
Site designer: Ament Creative LLC @ http://amentcreative.com

This was a site that I did for free for a church plant in Tulsa. They gave me a jpg of what they wanted the site to look like and we went from there. Some of the features of the site include:
1. Podcast (Views, FileField Podcast, CCK)
2. Embedded media from YouTube and Vimeo (Embed Module)
3. Easy content editing (WYSIWYG and FCKEditor)
4. Staff Page (CCK and Views)
5. Contact Forms (Webform)

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pastorjayrich's picture

"The Discipleship Dare" by Ament Creative LLC

Site: http://thediscipleshipdare.com
Site designer: Ament Creative LLC @ http://amentcreative.com

This is a site that I just launched for Jess Bousa author of The Discipleship Dare. It's the first CMS site that he has ever used. Needless to say, he is very pleased with drupal.
Some of the features that the client wanted are:
1. Rotating header with endorsements. (Views Rotator Module)
2. Free access to the book online with a free account. (Taxonomy Access Control)
3. Easy content editing (WYSIWYG and FCKEditor)
4. Send to a friend (Spread Module)
5. Contact Forms (Webform)

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bdornbush's picture

How to support signups for delivering meals and rides

Our church has an active ministry to deliver meals to ill people, and to provide rides. Currently, it is all manual, that is, the coordinator contacts people by phone or email, and logs their responses on paper. It's manually intensive. the coordinator was talking with a relative who said that her church used a wiki to manage this. She called me, the webmaster, to see what I could do to support this need using the web site.

The requirements are:

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esbon's picture

Need help with a question I posted on the issue queue

Hi, can someone please help with this question:http://drupal.org/node/661798
In short, can I use Rules to publish content created one year ahead of time. The content needs to bu published one devotional one day at a time. Can I do this with one Rule, or do I have to create one Rule for each day
Thanks

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domineaux's picture

My permissions don't allow for deletion.

Thanks

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