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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