How to add events and meetings to the Church Calendar
Introduction
We want to make it easy for everyone to keep our Church Calendar up to date on the website. If you’re planning an event, meeting, or gathering, you can add it to the Church Calendar simply by inviting the church calendar’s email address when you create your event. (To find out the email address, please go to the Contact Us page and send a message asking for the email address for the Church Calendar.)
This is an experiment to find out if there is interest in having a website calendar of all our events. To be successful, it depends on event and meeting organisers adding details to the calendar. After a couple of months we’ll review how well it’s being used and decide whether or not to continue with it.
How to add your event or meeting
It’s simple:
- Create your event in your usual calendar app (Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, etc.). Note that you do not need to use a church email account or calendar – just your normal personal calendar app is fine.
- Add the church calendar email address in the “Invitees” or “Add Guests” section. (To find out the email address, please go to the Contact Us page and send a message asking for the email address for the Church Calendar.)
- Save and send the invitation.
That’s it! The event will automatically appear in the Church Calendar on the website once accepted.
A few helpful tips
- Be clear in the event title and location, so everyone knows what it’s for and where it will be held.
- You do not need to bother including further information in the ‘details’ section, because that does not get included in the website calendar.
- If you update or cancel the event, be sure to update your own calendar event. This will automatically update the Church Calendar too.
- If you’re event happens at the same time every week or month, you can set it up as a repeating event. But if you do that, try to remember to delete the instances when your event is not happening (e.g. in holiday periods).
If you have any questions or need the Church Calendar’s email address, please go to the Contact Us page and send a message.
Video guides to setting up events and meetings
The videos below show how to set up appointments in three of the most common calendar apps:
- Outlook
- Apple iPhone
These videos include details about how to set up repeating events and meetings. If your event or meeting does not repeat, just ignore that aspect.