Using a PA mike as input on phone

Hi, Johndayward

What is PA system?

Without knowing this, I don't know what you want to do, so I can't give you any advice.

PA stands for 'Public Address'.  It means the sound system in our church building with a microphone wired to speakers in the ceiling.

It is an unlocked Android.  We go through the building's wifi to Zoom.  We have a directional microphone plugged into the end, but it picks up every baby's cry or toddler's yell, and the music fades in and out as the automatic loudness regulator kicks in.  It might be that it is too good of a microphone.  But in Sunday School (with no kids and no music) it works great.  We were thinking that using the building's microphone as an input might fix those problems.  How would we try that?

I have a similar question.  When we tried holding a hybrid zoom meeting at the church, the audience have to be muted to avoid feedback from the PA's microphone.  The PA speaker has a xlr male line out.  Can I connect with xlr female to 3.5mm jack into the computer's mic port?