i was wondering if there was a program out there i could use for a calendar page on my church's web site. I would like one that would update easily.

Take a look at "Plans":

https://www.planscalendar.com/

Have you installed this on a web site?

Not yet, but I've been working on it. A close friend of mine has used it around 5 times for his clients.

You can see his demo here:
https://knowmad.com/plans/plans.cgi

I got it running really quickly when I started, just in the process of tweaking it a little. I don't have enough sense to leave well enough alone

I downloaded it, but can't seem to get the scripts right.

They have a good forum to post such problems:
https://www.planscalendar.com/forum/

It seems to get a good response. May I ask what problems you have encountered?

I am convinced my problems are user error. I can't get the script to run. I am not even sure it is properly loaded.

What seems to be the problem? Can you tell me what your installation steps where? What errors are you getting exactly? Are you familiar with Perl?

I didn't have the perl script installed. Everything is working fine now.