(Baptist Press) Before the barbecue trailer, there was the toilet paper popemobile.
With toilet paper hard to come by as stay-at-home orders took effect in many states earlier this year to stem the spread of the coronavirus, Chad McMillan put the pastor of First Baptist Church of Navasota, Texas, on a trailer surrounded by plexiglass, “like the popemobile,” he said. He handed the pastor a T-shirt gun loaded with toilet paper, each roll wrapped with a Bible verse.
“And I said, ‘I want you to shoot toilet paper rolls to bless the community,'” said McMillan, the church’s pastor of students, evangelism and missions.
The toilet paper distribution went so well, he added a pulpit, sound system and piano so he could hold pop-up worship services while flinging the TP.
McMillan joked about adding a barbecue pit. Then he did — and Barbecue Baptist Church was born.