Renamed The Jefferson Church in 2016, previously held its services in the basement of a local mill, becoming known as ’the mill church’ during the 1930s. Having moved into its own building, it continued to serve this local ‘mill’ community under the leadership of Senior Pastors Nick and Channe’l Dalton.
Under the Daltons’ leadership, the church flourished from just a few hundred people to multiple services and the need for new space saw it purchase the same cotton mill in Jefferson, Georgia, where it was founded in 2021. Here, dB Integrations was the first choice when discussions turned to the audio and video needs of a new sanctuary.
The church, led by Worship Pastor Cohen Whittington, worked with dB Integrations on what was possible in the new space. ‘We wanted to create a worship environment that created as few distractions as possible,’ he says.
‘This is an old warehouse with concrete floors, hard walls, and a number of acoustical challenges,‘ says Cooper Hedden, Southeast Regional Sales Manager at Danley Sound Labs. ‘While that can be a challenge, Danley products are great in these environments because of pattern control. We can focus the energy on the people which minimizes the issues caused by the materials in the room.’
With a focus on contemporary worship, the project encompassed every aspect from on-campus interaction to online engagement. ‘We did everything from the lighting to production cameras, audio and lighting in the main auditorium, the lobbies, and the production room,’ says dB Integrations Operations Manager, Jeremy Clark.
The main auditorium is now equipped with three Danley Sound Labs J7-95 loudspeakers as the primary system, supplemented by SH95HO and SH95 units for fills, along with four BC215 subwoofers. The system is powered by Danley DNA-20K4 and DNA-10K4 amplifiers and managed by a Danley DNA-SC48 digital signal processor.
While the equipment chosen is important, Pastor Nick doesn’t believe it tells the whole story. ’From the ground level, with sound, lighting and video, dB has been here as a partner,’ says Senior Pastor Nick Dalton. ‘They understand ministry and how churches work so well, it made everything much easier. At the end of the day, it’s about relationships with people. Equipment is equipment. The people that do the work are those that make the real difference.’