Now I can do all the things I used to do. It's been the best year of my life. In addition to changes in individual lives, Smithton no longer looks like a backwater country church. A huge sound board sits in a high-tech loft. Overheads are computer-generated.
Worship leaders wear wireless microphone headsets.
An elaborate light-tracking system illuminates the stage. For ten years Gray had no support staff, or even an office telephone. Now there are six full-time workers. He lives in the same house he did when he began preaching 14 years ago. And he has not sought a raise since revival began.