Emerging Spirit @ The United Church of Canada Emerging Spirit @ The United Church of Canada

I am looking for recommendations or discussions on on-line calendars to cover such items as:

1. Recurring events, such as meetings for "registered" folks

2. One-time events which are announcements for all folks.

3. Group events where you are inviting folks, such as youth events or family nights, and rsvp would be appreciated

4. Rentals, which block room availability or restrict usage

5. Reminders -- order curriculum on x date, order vbs on y date

6. Special services -- WhiteGift, Rally Sunday

7. Special / Holy Days -- Good Friday, Christmas, Shrove Tuesday, Thanksgiving

It needs to be something that multiple individuals can have access to update and can get timely information. Ideally, it should allow for room bookings. Here is what I have tried.

The Church newsletter Visitors were arriving to pick up their binders and marching orders for the pre-Christmas outreach to all the Faithful - and not so Faithful - on the church database. The year’s first snow was coming down hard and furious. Little two-year-old Sarah and her mom Sharon, blew in the front doors with a flurry of wind and snow.

“We’re gonna put up the Christmas tree and go to the bank and go shopping and see Daddy at home” she announced up to me as she patiently stood there while mom peeled coat and boots off of her.

When I consider "best practices", I think of practices which are tried & true, only requiring minor adaptation. Generally, they may have had metrics or reporting results.
My sense is that the title "best practices" is a conversation killer, on a site which is designed to encourage dialogue, and sharing of ideas, works-in-progress.
So, I ask others, please, unless told otherwise, share those items, which aren't quite working, so that we can adapt them for our own groups, and together we can come up with and develop our own best practices.