Hey, pokey!  Thanks for the feedback.  I understand what you mean about fixing your pastor's Windows machine.  A few years ago I was helping out (computer-wise) at a local church.  According to Spybot S&amp;R, the secretary's PC had over 24,000 (yes, 5 digits!) hits -- malware, tracking cookies, and various heaps of digital detritus, to say nothing of every system-tray doodad under the sun.  That was well before my Linux days.

By and large, it seems that folks (pastors or otherwise) are reticent to trust techies (even well-intentioned ones) with changes that take the organization too far outside of comfortable parameters.  There's some wisdom in that.  How many times I've encountered a custom-made, one-off program (say, a database) written for a church; the creator has long since left (for whatever reason) and the organization is stuck with something they can't fix, alter, or use.  After an experience or two like that, you can guess what the response will be to "Hey, change to Linux!"

That said, probably the safest course of action is gradualism.  Linux may be the ultimate goal, but start off with introducing a FOSS alternative that runs in Windows.  MS Office may be another sacred cow (strange that Christians would have "sacred cows"!), but the hardiness of Firefox running NoScript might be the first step in the long path to the changeover.  Build on each success by introducing another FOSS alternative.  I can point to a recent success I discovered.  This summer I had the privilege of visiting a Bible college out in the "hoots and hollers" of Kentucky.  I was blown away by the server room that two of the graduates-now-staff had put together -- CentOS servers, FOSS phone system, Ubuntu servers.  Wireless for the whole spawling campus, too.  The college board went along with just about everything, because of the tremendous cost savings -- except the board just insisted on Windows 7 and MS Office 2007 in the student computer lab.  Still, it amounted to tremendous inroads made by some really sophisticated, heads-up techies.

I'd like to communicate more at length.  Admin/Ken Fallon has the e-mail address of my alter ego.  Or you can combine what you learn in Psalm 81:16 and 147:14 and make a good Google guess about the name of our website and, from there, how to contact me directly.

Regards,

Curbuntu