WILLIAM NEMON HEARD IS A SINGER, SONGWRITER, PRODUCER, ORDAINED CHRISTIAN MINISTER, WORSHIP CONSULTANT, WORKSHOP CLINICIAN, PASTORAL COUNSELOR, AUTHOR, AND PASTOR. HIS GREATEST ARTISTIC LOVE HAS BEEN THE DIVERSE MUSIC OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC EXPERIENCE, FROM THE ROOTS OF IT'S RICH HISTORY TO TODAY'S ECLECTIC MUSICAL EXPRESSIONS. HIS VOICE HAS BEEN HEARD IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD THROUGH THE MEDIUMS OF TELEVISION, RADIO, THE INTERNET, AND NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCES AND LECTURES. WILLIE'S SINGING MINISTRY SPANS OVER FIVE DECADES, AND HE HAS DIRECTED CHOIRS AND WRITTEN AND ARRANGED SACRED MUSIC FOR OVER 40 YEARS. DECEMBER 2021 MARKED THE CULMINATION OF 33+ YEARS OF MINISTRY ON THE NORTHEASTERN COAST OF THE USA. HE SERVED THE HISTORIC BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH IN BROOKLYN, NY FOR 13 OF THOSE YEARS IN VARIOUS MINISTERIAL CAPACITIES AND FOUR YEARS AT THE HISTORIC UNION BAPTIST CHURCH IN TRENTON, NJ WHILE A STUDENT AT PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. HE LED MUSIC AND WORSHIP AND PREACHED AT PRINCETON SEMINARY AND PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. WILLIAM SERVED THE HISTORIC KAIGHN AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH, CAMDEN, NJ OVER 16 YEARS AS WORSHIP CONSULTANT, MINISTER OF LITURGY & WORSHIP, MINISTER OF FAMILY LIFE, INTERIM PASTOR, AND SR. PASTOR. ONE OF THE HIGH POINTS OF HIS MINISTRY IS HIS WORK IN SEVERAL STATES AND CITIES IN INDIA IN COLLABORATION WITH THE INDIA SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION (ISSU). WILLIAM HAS PRODUCED THREE AUDIO VOLUMES OF SACRED SONGS PRESERVING THE MUSIC OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN WORSHIP EXPERIENCE ENTITLED “SONGS FROM THE SANCTUARY HYMNS, SPIRITUALS, AND CLASSIC GOSPELS”. HE IS PRODUCING A TRIPLE CD URBAN GOSPEL PROJECT ENTITLED “LOVE LIKE THIS!”, FEATURING MANY OF HIS ORIGINAL SONGS, AND RELEASED AN ORIGINAL COMPOSITION "ONE MORE DAY 12/22. [HEARDSONG PRODUCTIONS LLC.]HEARD HAS VISION FOR SYSTEMS OF COUNSELING SPECIFICALLY CREATED TO MEET THE PARTICULAR NEEDS OF BLACK CLERGY AND PARISHIONERS, CONSULTANCY TO PASTORS AND COMMUNITIES OF FAITH ON THE MULTIFACETED PHENOMENON THAT IS MINISTRY, CREATIVE ENDEAVORS IN MUSIC, VIDEO, AND MOVIE PRODUCTION, FICTION AND NONFICTION WRITING, AS WELL AS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY THROUGHOUT INDIA AND SOUTHERN ASIA, AFRICA, LATIN AMERICA AND NORTH AMERICA. REV. HEARD IS FOUNDER OF HAVE YOU HEARD MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL. HEARD CELEBRATES 37 YEARS OF MARRIAGE TO TAMARA AND IS PROUD FATHER OF JESSICAH, A 2012 GRADUATE OF RIDER UNIVERSITY IN LAWRENCE, NJ, MATTHEW A 2017 GRADUATE OF ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE IN BROOKLYN, NY, AND "G-PAPI" TO GRANDSON, AYDEN XAVIER. TO GOD BE THE GLORY!