If you’re looking for tasty brisket or barbecue, you need to go to the source.
Make that, The Source.
The Rev. Kevin Cain can tell you all about it.
Cain is pastor at Kingdom, the community church in Westover he founded in 1998.
And The Source is one of the many ministries that have grown from the house of worship over the years.
This WVU football season, said ministry is adding a menu – and four wheels to go with it.
You’ll find the “Rev’s Brisket & BBQ” food truck parked Wednesday through Saturday the “Three Guys Before the Game” food court in Suncrest, between Daniel’s Men’s Store and Ogawa.
“The game,” in this case, being the game for legions of Mountaineer fans.
Penn State. Kickoff is noon Saturday at Milan Puskar Stadium.
Meanwhile, the truck will be parked at the Three Guys court from 4-10 p.m. through Friday for walkup orders.
Saturday’s hours are 7 a.m. right up to the noon kick with the Lions.
And you’ll get a lion’s share of food, the pastor said, including the operation’s signature offerings of brisket, pulled pork or chicken, with a choice of signature sides, toppings and sauces.
Visit www.thesourcewv.org and scroll down to learn more about the latest enterprise that made its debut last week at the Monongalia County Fair.
All of the proceeds — as in, 100% — of food truck sales are going directly to The Source, Cain said – in order to fund programming which includes its backpack feeding program for youngsters in need across the county.
“That’s what I really want to stress,” the pastor said.
“People keep asking if I’m ‘going into the barbecue business.’ The answer is no. I’m in the kid business,” Cain continued.
“And the community business. Like I’ve always been.”
That’s because both run on their bellies, he said.
While food trucks are fun, Cain said, food is deadly serious when it’s scarce.
Even in relatively prosperous Mon County there are still youngsters and households beset by food insecurity.
Food insecurity is a clinical and sociological definition. It’s the state of simply not taking in enough food to sustain oneself, nutritionally.
As many as 1 in 5 children across the Mountain State go to bed with growling bellies, according to pre-pandemic numbers culled by Feeding America, the online nutrition watchdog group.
More than 2, 000 children across Mon have been classified as food insecure, using those same numbers.
“And that’s Mon,” he said.
While Cain isn’t in the brisket and barbecue business as a standalone profit-making enterprise, he did get into the business of how to prepare the above the help of a WVU football player.
Tito Gonzalas, a wide receiver known for his 79-yard touchdown grab in the 2008 Fiesta Bowl, was a guest in the Cain household between the time after his playing days were done and his graduation from the school in Morgantown.
Cain and his wife were already making large-scale meals for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes organization at Morgantown High School.
The pastor and the pass-catcher, meanwhile, decided to see what they could do with barbecue.
“We took it from there,” Cain said.
