PastorWill.net is your home for Church AV and Technology solutions.
The site is researched and written by Rev. Will Rice, who formerly served as the Director of Communications for the Rio Texas Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church, where he created their Media Center to provide support, training, and resources to help churches reach their mission fields. He remains an expert in audio, video, live-streaming, website development, apps, social media, and more. His free, informative posts and guides will help you make sense of the ever-changing world of technology so you can find the right equipment and solutions for your congregation.
Need help? Pastor Will now offers one-one-one online communications and technology consulting starting at just $50 for a session. Click here to learn more.
Will is the Owner of Mason Hall Media, LLC. He started the business after nearly two decades of pastoral ministry and church administration. He now works mostly in audio production. His team at Pro Voice Guy Studios produces ads for radio and streaming services, provides voice and audio production for television commercials, creates audio tracks for corporate training videos, and produces podcasts mainly in the religion, spirituality, self-help, and medical genres.
Pastor Will keeps up with the latest in technology and communications and uses this site as a place to share his knowledge and experience.
Will is married to Karen, a church music director, and helps to raise her daughter along with his two boys, a cat named Minerva and a rescue dog named Sahara.
You can learn more about Will’s work at masonhallmedia.com, and provoiceguy.net.
Rev Rice,
I enjoyed your presentation at the Capital District Lay Leadership Training event today. Sorry I had to leave a bit early. Thank you for the link to this blog. I am following it and look forward to reading your future posts.
I would love to have you look at our website–www.berkeleyumc.org and our Facebook page–www.facebook.com/berkeleyumc and give me any feedback or suggestions you have.
Thank Jim! I will take a look.
Hello, I have discovered that a person needs to know the the hdmi output resolution and frame rate needs to be compatible with the video capture box. The Canon RF R800 and the Blackmagic Intensity shuttle are unfortunately incompatible.
pls pastor will, i want to know the necessary steps to set up the means of recording messages into audio CDs for our ministry. we are a newly ministry trying to set up the media dept.
Pastor Will, I am hoping to interview you in the next week for a seminary project. Please contact me as soon as you comfortably able to do so.