A Dirty Job

Father Steve was feautured in the Augusta Chronicle this past weekend for his St. Michael's TV segments on YouTube. The article follows Rice as he shoots his latest video, Dirty Job, based on the Discovery series Dirty Jobs. This one is hot in the pottery studio of a St. Michael's parishioner. The article by writer By C. Samantha McKevie ends,

STANDING IN THE POTTERY shed watching the Rev. Rice and her husband shoot the footage for Dirty Job, Anne Resseau told the rector that she has met someone who discovered the YouTube series and is now interested in going to St. Michael's.

"I'm bringing somebody to church tomorrow night," she told the priest. "He found the videos online and said, 'You've got to be left of center down there doing those.' I think it's a great form of advertisement."

The Resseaus have been members of St. Michael's for 16 years. They said that they find the series wonderful and that young people like it.

Mr. Resseau said helping the Rev. Rice shoot his latest installment "was the right thing to do."

"It gets a good message across and piques people's interest, gets them coming back and wanting more," he said.

Creating videos twice a month takes more time than simply recording and posting his Sunday sermon, but he didn't feel that simply posting sermons would be as effective.

"Those are already out there," he said. "If people are not going to church, they're not going to be interested in watching a sermon."

It also lets people see another side of a church.

"That it can be creative, fun, can have a sense of humor," he said. "It also presents another side of what priests are like. It's just something you don't see every day."

The full text of the article is here: Reaching the masses, though you'll have to do the free registration with the Augusta Chronicle to read it. The video is online here: