An outreach ministry of the First Baptist Church in Navasota, Texas, called the Barbecue Baptist Church, has been holding weeklong, multi-city missions this summer to bring the Gospel to first responders and medical professionals along with ample servings of free barbecue meals.
23 barbecue enthusiasts from the ministry made 17 stops in Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma this summer where they served up “Bibles & brisket, prayer & pulled pork, redemption & ribs, church & chicken and salvation & sausage!”
The ministry was birthed in the small town of just under 8,000 people in March when the coronavirus hit and toilet paper became scarce. A few members of the church’s student ministry responded by outfitting a trailer with a sound system, an air compressor and two specially designed pneumatic guns to launch rolls of toilet paper wrapped in Scripture verses around the community for people in need. Once they added a catering trailer, however, the ministry evolved even further.
According to the ministry, while the stops on their road trip vary — from the number of people served to the menu — their mission does not. And thanks to the generosity of members of the Navasota community, they have been able to cover the expenses of the mission to serve the Gospel and barbecue on a trip of nearly 2,000 miles.