Newbie needs Guidance

Hello,

I’m new to WordPress. I need a blog to host information about a our church’s first ever charity event to raise money for breast cancer research. Our chuch uses a wordpress website now https://www.rslcs.org – with a link to an astore amazon bookstore. We want this new blog to be as independent & separate as possible – church’s IT person is swamped with other stuff & has minimal time to spend on this project.

I’m looking for a guidance about how to set this up. We free (or super cheap) online event registration plug in? We will collect registration info & fees from participants – so it needs to be secure. I’m hoping to use church’s existing amazon webstore/merchant account to do that.

Not sure if this is a good idea or even possible..but I was thinking of setting up a new product on amazon, adding it to our amazon store, and selling it on both the new blog and church’s main site.

I searched the forums & the web (overwhelming!). I started by setting up a blog on wordpress.COM https://march4thecure.wordpress.com/, but that was the wrong approach.

I could really use some guidance here. Has anyone done anything similar? All suggestions & recommendations are welcome!

Thanks for your time!

Jack