I am getting started with building out a social network for my church's use. Basically I am at an evaluation stage and wanting to prototype out the basic idea before investing in heavy theming. I have also looked into using Elgg but it seems somewhat immature compared to Drupal but I can easily see a simple site using it.

What is a good starting point for the ability to have each home-team, interest group, and ministry have their own blog, forums, chat, polls, images, etc. I would also like each user to have a nice profile page with friends (with a river of friends' latest blogs, pictures, posts, etc), wall of comments, pictures, etc.

Nothing big :)

Is it going to be possible to pull posts made in an Organic Group that the user belongs to into their profile page? What about friends' posts made in a public group?

I have mad programming skills and a web application developer by trade but am pretty new to Drupal.

Here is my current module list:

I suppose I will need:

Is this the right path to take? Is their a better way?

Sorry, I know it is a big post. Many thanks for the help!