Church Websites Running Drupal

Here is one that I built for our church's school. It's very new and there is not much content yet (hard to get people moving). It uses organic groups for the classrooms where teachers can post event content that gets pulled to the class calendar (test on Friday, paper due, etc.)

I have been playing with the Atrium build of Drupal for our church as a way of interacting as individual ministries. Private groups, like elders, can discuss topics in between meetings. Pastors can do likewise as well as assign and track tasks with the 'Case Tracker'. I'd like to be able to have the church secretary be able to manage a pastor's event calendar in order to coordinate their schedules without giving her privileges in other parts of the group that should be privy to the pastors only, but I haven't been able to figure that out yet. I also have implimented a church facility calendar that will act as an authoritative place to display what parts of the church facility are being used on what dates. There is a webform that anonymous users can fill out to reserve areas of the church for their event, luncheon, meeting, etc. This generates an email and still has to be approved and an event created by hand, I hope to someday automate that process, so that the secretary can click on a link in the email to generate the event.

Sorry for rambling, this probably should have been it's own post.

Al

let us know what you think about Atrium. i like the distributed arch...
http://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/jun/24/distributed-feature-servers-drupal and the open learning items http://groups.drupal.org/node/22703

what do you think about starting up a series of sites (lab and operations) on a distributed arch framework with christian techies  that want to share technology and content/articles/tools and grow it to span the world with a distributed site architecture.( A open source ministry model) .. I would offer bible.org and our http://users.bible.org  site as a start ..If we as a group we are to host tons of unevaluated content (I have that problem on users here),. We would need a way to rank it, assign endorsements to it   and probably rank the raters/endorsers ... But it would be a way to effectively support oneanother and not force each ministry to reinvent the wheel and to help each other out which is what the christian community should be about...

another key concept is the  Semantic Web For Distributed Social Networks. We need the data to announce itself as we work on tools to organize it for consumption

what do i think.... da