Our District Deputation Manager asked me to setup a way for churches to better directly schedule a missionary speaker. Being the nerd and cheapskate that I am, I decided to use ZCal.co for this project.
Having already made enough mistakes myself getting this setup, I decided to make some quick and dirty videos covering setup. If you want to do something like this, you will need to have either a Google or Microsoft Account that has email and a calendar (though ZCal does allow you to additional calendars of either type).
A strong recommendation is that this be setup with an account that can be handed off to another person who might handle deputations (as when one steps down from the NMI Board). In other words, don’t use a personal account of yours, instead setup an account that will handle the deputations. This does mean it needs to be checked, however. So make sure that you access it regularly.
With that, here we go!
This video shows how to setup a calendar for a particular missionary. This is a long video (~18min), but is pretty much a step-by-step, including pitfalls (I make them in the video).
This video shows how modifying invites works. This is an important tool for the deputation manager, as rescheduling might be necessary due to transportation issues (our district is, by car, 8 hours tall x 4 hours wide, for example) or missionary changes.
This video shows how the user/church/NMI person would get an appointment to have a missionary at their church.
