Google Calendars are a great tool for any ministry. Multiple people can have access to updating them, and they can be easily installed onto your blog so that everyone who visits your site can be kept up to date on your ministry’s schedule of events. Managing the calendar is extremely easy since you only have to update it in one place. Every time you make a change to the calendar in Google, your blog is automatically updated.

Here’s a quick tutorial to get you started. This tutorial assumes you’ve got a self-hosted WordPress blog and are using version 2.9.

1. Go to www.google.com/calendar

2. Click on the Create an account button, or if you already have a Google Account, enter your email and password to login.

3. Enter all of the required information and agree to the terms and conditions
4. Once completed, you should see your new calendar

5. Click on the arrow by My Calendars, and select Calendar Settings

6. Select Customize the color, size, and other options from the Embed This Calendar section.

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A Google calendar is a great tool for any Christian ministry. You can easily grant your entire team access to a shared central calendar to help with planning and updating events. And this same calendar can also be used to keep everyone in your ministry up to date on upcoming events.

Check out this video for a quick tip on how you can use a Google calendar to plan ministry events more effectively.

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Embedding Google Maps onto your ministry blog is a really easy way to show people where all of your events and outreaches are happening without them navigating away from your site. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to embed a map onto your Wordpress blog.

1. Go to www.maps.google.com

2. Enter the desired address in the search menu and click Search Maps

3. Select Link in the upper right hand corner to open up the Link options

4. Copy all of the code in the Paste HTML to embed in website box. This is the embed code you’ll use in the next step.

5. Install the embed code you copied in step 4 into your blog, just as you would for any other widget. Here’s a video to show you how to install a widget into a Wordpress blog using Wordpress version 2.9.

Have any other ideas for integrating Google, maps, and widgets into your ministry blog? Let us know.

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Embedding Google Maps onto your ministry blog is a really easy way to show people where all of your events and outreaches are happening without them navigating away from your site. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to embed a map onto your Wordpress blog.

1. Go to www.maps.google.com

2. Enter the desired address in the search menu and click Search Maps

3. Select Link in the upper right hand corner to open up the Link options

4. Copy all of the code in the Paste HTML to embed in website box. This is the embed code you’ll use in the next step.

5. Install the embed code you copied in step 4 into your blog, just as you would for any other widget. Here’s a video to show you how to install a widget into a Wordpress blog using Wordpress version 2.9.

Have any other ideas for integrating Google, maps, and widgets into your ministry blog? Let us know.

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Embedding Google Maps onto your ministry blog is a really easy way to show people where all of your events and outreaches are happening without them navigating away from your site. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to embed a map onto your Wordpress blog.

1. Go to www.maps.google.com

2. Enter the desired address in the search menu and click Search Maps

3. Select Link in the upper right hand corner to open up the Link options

4. Copy all of the code in the Paste HTML to embed in website box. This is the embed code you’ll use in the next step.

5. Install the embed code you copied in step 4 into your blog, just as you would for any other widget. Here’s a video to show you how to install a widget into a Wordpress blog using Wordpress version 2.9.

Have any other ideas for integrating Google, maps, and widgets into your ministry blog? Let us know.

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