We've launched our new Drupal 6 website (http://stmattumc.org) after four months of planning, organizing, building and testing. I have many years of technology experience but this was my first foray into Drupal. Our team consisted of six volunteers who meet "virtually" using Skype and Microsoft's SharedView (http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=94). I hosted a sandbox to play in using a machine in my house that's running CentOS 5.3.
We narrowed the list of features to announcements, calendaring (CCK and views), ministry pages and sermons. Even with that small feature set the list of contributed modules grew to a total of 30 including cck, colorpicker, contact_forms, content_access, ctools, date, ffpc, filefield, getid3, image, imce, jquery_ui, mimemail, nice_menus, panels, simplenews, swftools, token, views, and wysiwyg (ckeditor).
Credit for opening my eyes to Drupal goes to Matt and Rob and their Geeks and God Podcast (http://geeksandgod.com/). My new friends at the NH Drupal group (http://groups.drupal.org/new-hampshire) gave me confidence, support and encouragement as well as freely sharing knowledge to help the 'n00b' get through it. :)