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A packed Sunday service at Greater Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church — congregation seated in the pews, church leadership at the platform, stained glass windows on both sides, illuminated cross at the front of the sanctuary.
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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.

LocationBaton Rouge, LA
DisciplineAudio
Year2018
The Story

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.

Newspaper article from The Advocate titled "A NEW BEGINNING: Church returns home after 2016 flooding" with photos of Reverend Shelton C. Dixon waving from a car and the congregation gathered outside the brick sanctuary.
The Audio

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.

Wide view of the rebuilt Greater Mount Olive sanctuary from the back, showing stained glass arches on both sides, illuminated cross at the front, choir setup at the platform, and Worx Audio loudspeakers hung from the ceiling.
Soundcheck moment with musicians and choir on the platform under the lit cross, white loudspeakers visible hanging from the ceiling, empty pews in the foreground.
Through-line

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.