This event is free to attend & fun for the whole family!
1:00PM · Car Show
4:00PM · Family Activities
4:00-5:30PM · Meat Sampling
6:00PM · Awards Ceremony
Bring your lawnchair and hang out!
BBQ Smoking Teams
Do you like to smoke meats? Gather a team and enter our competition! Registration opens on April 1st at midnight. Click the “BBQ Team Registration” button.
(Teams choose their meats in the order of registration!)
Event Times
Set up for the competition will be any time after 5:00pm on Friday, June 5. A team meeting will take place in the gym at 7:00pm sharp. The award ceremony will be at 6:00pm on Saturday, June 6th. The top two in each category, the Reserve Grand Champion and the Grand Champion will receive a prize.
Smoking Categories
Each team will cook the following categories: Ground Turkey, Pork Loin, Pork Butt, Brisket, and Fan Favorite – a side dish to be voted on by the public. All 4 meat categories will be provided. Teams will need to provide their own ingredients for the “Fan Favorite” category. All competition entries will be judged in the following three criteria: Appearance, Taste, & Tenderness.
That’s a lot of good food you won’t want to miss out on!
Entry Cost
Entry cost is $75 for a team to compete. All proceeds will be given to this year’s donation recipient. If you’d like to know the Competition Rules, click here. We have a capacity of 18 teams, so register with the “BBQ Team Registration” button today!
This year is our 11th annual competition. Each year, we ask for a $5.00 donation to fill up a plate of BBQ but that’s not even the best part…
Every year, all proceeds from this competition go toward a selected person in our community to be blessed by the Church.
This year, we’re supporting Hunter Harris! Keep scrolling to read his story.
Car Show Entry
Have a cool car and want the chance to show it off? We’d love to see it! Click “Car ShowRegistration” button to sign up early. Early Registration opens on April 1st at midnight.
The show begins at 1:00PM and awards (Top 10 & People's Choice) are at 6:00PM.
The cost is $15/entry for early registration or $20/entry for the day of the event. It includes two meal tickets for our Backyard BBQ!
^^^ Stay posted on our plans! ^^^
Family Activities
With plenty of food, we also have plenty of fun! Bring your kids and your friends for valve cover races, temporary tattoos, snow cones, bounce house, coloring booth, and a 50/50 raffle!
All these extra activities start at 4:00PM (except the 50/50 drawing will be at 1:00PM), so come hang out. And don’t forget your lawn chairs!
Meet Hunter Harris.
On July 31, 2025, what began as an ordinary summer day for Hunter — a Southeast Polk student from Pleasant Hill — became the day that changed everything.
In a single, devastating moment, he was struck by a distracted driver, suffering severe brain injuries and significant physical trauma. The vibrant, active young man who had been stepping into his future was suddenly fighting for his life.
Today, Hunter’s days look very different — but his determination remains the same. He is relearning the most basic parts of daily life, relying on a feeding tube for nourishment, a tracheostomy to breathe, and around-the-clock nursing care. Every small step forward is hard-earned, and every milestone is a victory.
Right now, one critical need stands in the way of that continued progress: safe, reliable transportation. Hunter urgently needs a wheelchair-accessible van so he can attend therapies, travel to medical appointments, and slowly begin reconnecting with his community. This van is not just a vehicle — it is access to healing. It is opportunity. It is forward motion.
Hunter has already shown great progress, but the journey ahead is still long. With your support, we can help lift some of the burden his family carries and give Hunter the ability to keep moving toward recovery.
Thank you for standing with Hunter. Every prayer, every act of generosity, and every share of his story helps carry him one step closer to healing — and one mile closer to hope.
If you’d like to donate toward this year’s donation recipient before the day of our Holy Smoke event, you can! Just click the “Start your support now!” button or visit our “Giving” page and select “Holy Smoke_Benevolence” to designate your gift today.
