Which CMS for a church website?

I want to setup a website for my church, and we need to settle on a CMS.

I have the following available to me:

anyInventory
Drupal
Joomla
Mambo
MODx
Moodle
Nucleus
PostNuke
SilverStripe
Xoops


We basically want a consistent theme throughout the site, but want each individual ministry to have its own 'minisite'. We also want the individual team/ministry leaders to have access to their own section of the site.

I'm quite experienced at setting up Wordpress blogs. But I have zero experience at CMSs. I'm confident I can learn any of them, but whatever will be easiest for the, er...'technically challenged' members of the ministry staff would be helpful.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

 

you can have joomla , users can register and you can set them permissions
you can have minisites by using different sections for each ministry

 

Agree with Kodut, joomla will be the suitable

 

Joomla or Drupal.

They are best suited for that kind of site.

 

With drupal you can easily set the site up on the multi-site platform so each ministry can have it's own site/sub domain that all use the same Drupal application.

http://drupal.org/node/43816

http://drupal.org/node/53705

This is excellent for if you need to update to the newest version, you only have to update one application. We're currently working on a number of multi-site platforms with Drupal and it's the best way to go imho.

 

Drupal for good

 

If you want to design quality website than choose best from these 3 CMS: Drupal, Joomla, Rapidvector

 

What's your reason for not using WordPress? Since you're already familiar with it, it seems like a good fit, and I feel confident it could do everything you want.

With WordPress, you could create each of the individual mini-sites using categories and pull content from those categories only to certain pages (thus creating minisite). You can also set up user controls to determine what users can and can't do using this role manager plugin.

WordPress is by far the easiest to use for your technically challenged members, and I think implementing something too complicated should definitely be a concern.

And you might take a look at what Brian Gardner did with his Revolution themes. This will soon be made available open source.

http://www.briangardner.com/blog/sneak-preview-3-of-new-revolution-themes.htm

 

Joomla will be good. Moreover, you'll find ready made suitable templates for your needs ont the web. Some exit about church, religion.

 

I'd go with Drupal for the raw power - but as you're already familiar with Wordpress - and granted, Wordpress is quite easy for the technology challenged, why not settle on Wordpress?

Drupal has more power for a general purpose website, but Wordpress isn't really lacking very much... you couldn't go wrong with Wordpress.

Were I to do a website for someone that wasn't very computer literate, I would definitely go with Wordpress.

 

I am surprised why you have not used wordpress. WP is such a powerful and easy to use CMS and literally you can do anything with it. Just install a christian theme with wordpress to run your church website.