How to best set up a mail and calendar server for a church

I am the IT guy for a smaller church of 200 regular attendees.  We want to start hosting our own mail and calendar server.  We bought a mac mini and installed mac os x server.  So far I have enabled the mail, calendar, and contacts sections of the server but we aren't live quite yet (domain is not pointed at the server yet).  My question is, I do not know much about profile manager or open directory, would those benefit me at all?  I do not wish to manage devices, I just want to make the most use out of the computer as a mail server primarily.  I have found some limitations on users and groups where I wish I could do more (such as creating mailing lists that include e-mails that are not hosted from within the server without creating a user that forwards to personal e-mail for every person). 
Would open directory and/or profile manager add more functionality to the computer as a mail server?
Thank you

@camelot
What is it exactly open directory will give me that I cannot do with the regular software in this regard?  I am not sure what you mean by a signle shared mailbox and calendar.
@cpragman
Google apps for business was something I was looking into at one point but decided not to use it.  Once we grow more I can see us moving over to it but with just maybe 5 people tops having a real e-mail address it seems a little overkill.  (I apologize, I omitted that from my original question, i only put in the number of attendees)
@Lincdavis
Fortunately I don't care about whether they can create it themselves or not .  And your comment about creating a sharing-only user.  Do you mean for every external e-mail I want in a mailing list, I need to create a user for them (with services disabled) and then change mail options to forward to their personal e-mail? 
Then go back to groups, create a group that can be e-mailed, and add those users to it? 
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