Your Sunday service is not fifty-two events. It is one rule.
A schedule produces occurrences on your calendar automatically, so a weekly service, a monthly deacons' meeting or a Wednesday youth night is set up once and then left alone.
Making one
On Events, click New Event and tick Recurring event. Schedules are then listed alongside your one-off events, and you open one to edit it. It needs:
- A name: "Sunday Morning Worship"
- A start time and, optionally, a duration in minutes
- A frequency: Every week, Every other week or Once a month
- A Schedule Starts date, and optionally a Schedule Ends date
For weekly and every-other-week, pick the day. For monthly, open the schedule after you create it: its own page gives you a choice that matters more than it first appears. Under Repeat by:
- Date of month: the 15th of each month
- Day of week: the first Monday, the third Sunday, the last Saturday
The quick recurring option inside the New Event form only offers the date of the month. If you want "first Tuesday", create the schedule, then open it from the Events list and switch Repeat by to Day of week.
Most church meetings are the second kind. A deacons' meeting on "the first Tuesday" drifts across the calendar all year, and a by-date rule will not follow it.
Publishing works the same way
A schedule starts as a draft until you tick Published, and it has the same Members Only switch. A staff meeting can run on a schedule without ever appearing on your public calendar.
Cancelling one week
You can cancel a single occurrence without touching the schedule. Open the schedule and use its Exceptions section, where each date in the next eight weeks has a Cancel this date option, either Quiet or Public. The Sunday you are snowed out comes off the calendar (or stays on it marked cancelled, with your reason) and every other Sunday is unaffected.
Do not delete the schedule to skip a week. You will be rebuilding it on Monday.
What to put on a schedule, and what not to
Yes: Sunday services, midweek meetings, a monthly prayer breakfast, anything with a rule you could say out loud.
No: the Christmas Eve service, a one-off members' meeting, the summer camp. Those want to be individual events, because they each need their own description, image and registration, and a schedule gives every occurrence the same ones.
A good test: if you would describe it as "every ...", it belongs on a schedule. If you would describe it by its date, it does not.