Greater Mount Olive. The return home.
Greater Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church came home in 2018 — a year and nine months after the August 2016 flood. Rebuilt sanctuary, brand-new pews, the same congregation showing up for the same pastor. We were honored to put the audio in for that homecoming Sunday.
A year and nine months away.
The 2016 flood took everything — furniture, hymnals, sound equipment, the whole sanctuary on Victoria Drive. The Reverend S.C. Dixon, founder and pastor of 22 years, watched the church he'd built lose itself to water in August.
On a Sunday in 2018, a year and nine months later, the doors opened again. Brand-new pews, freshly painted walls, the same congregation showing up for the same pastor. Reverend Dixon spoke from his own pulpit for the first time since the water came.
A system worthy of the morning.
Pink Palace hung Worx Audio loudspeakers in the rebuilt sanctuary, with a 32-channel digital mixing console at front of house. Coverage tuned to the long, narrow nave — stained-glass arches on both sides, the choir loft and pulpit at the platform, every pew in the room hearing the same gospel at the same volume.
When it's a homecoming service for a 22-year pastor, the audio has to keep up with the moment. Faders set, the room steady, the system invisible — a congregation hearing each other and their pastor for the first time in nearly two years.
Twenty-two years of pastoring, two years displaced by water, and one Sunday morning that mattered more than any other. The audio just had to keep up with the moment.