The church I attend, the Dayton Vineyard, has grown over the past 12 or so years I’ve been there. It’s gone from about 300 people back then to well over 2500 people on a given weekend. On top of that growth, the church was recently given a new location just north of downtown Dayton, Ohio.

The new spot started having services last fall, and it’s gone from about 30 people to 150 or more. I’d heard people talking about doing something to kick off the new location, and I thought it would be great to have a real barbecue there.

Keep in mind a couple of things about the Dayton Vineyard. The first is that we used to have block parties in different areas in Dayton called BBQ Dayton. The second is that our tagline is ‘A Pretty Good Church’, implying that we’re not perfect, but we try to be at least pretty good. So I combined the two into my idea and called it ‘A Pretty Good BBQ’.

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I wanted to do some stuff on my Big Green Egg last week, so I got some really thick pork chops and the makings of caprese salad (what I understand to be tomatoes, fresh mozzarella cheese and basil), along with some ciabatta bread.

The set up was easy; get some coals going on the egg and get it heating up. While doing that, I opened a bottle of wine to breathe, which I thought was perfect for the meal… a bottle of Le Snoot Cabernet Savignon!

I also got the pork chops out of the fridge and seasoned them with grey salt, black pepper, oregano, onion powder and garlic powder. Since these were really thich (like 1 1/2″), I seasoned them pretty heavily.

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