Hey everyone, my name is Sam Moss. Welcome to Youth Group Chronicles. You're about to hear

true stories from youth pastors and leaders about the crazy, wild, and hilarious things that

have happened while serving in youth ministry. I hope you enjoy the show.

What's going on, everybody?

Welcome back to Youth Group Chronicles.

With me in the studio today.

This is big, y'all.

This is big.

Mr. John Rush and Taylor Ransom,

welcome to YGC Studios, boys. It's good to have you here. God's going to move. God's going to move. He's moving. It almost didn't happen. It almost didn't happen. It almost didn't happen. We've canceled this show. We've delayed this show, I think, like three times. And then on the way here, our first plane hit a flock of birds. So were you on the plane? We were on the plane.

We were about to take off. It's true. And then it, I was actually asleep. I was literally, the plane started to take off. I hadn't slept at all the night before. And as soon as started to take off, my brain went, oh, okay, we're good. He was praying for the show. So I went back and I was sleeping and then out of nowhere I just lurch forward awake because the whole plane just

and they said, yeah, we hit some birds or something. Which, you know, in the Bible, birds are symbolic of spirits or angels. Yep. It's what it says. This says the birds of the air. And we hit five, killed two. So what does that mean? I don't know. There's three of us left. And then they had the math. They had to pull the... Who was supposed to be here? Who were the other two? I don't know. I know there's been, you know, there's been some warfare around me being on this show. Every time I stream... Every time I go live on my YouTube channel or wherever, people will comment. I'll literally get comments. They're like, go on youth group chronicles. Go on youth group chronicles. And I always see it. I'm like, dude, I promise. I I've been trying. I'm like, you don't understand they're on the other side of the country. It's not, you know, you know. So you came from Nashville all the way to upstate New York.

Yeah. And you made it to Washington, D.C. So this is like their flight got delayed and we're like, okay, we're going to push this back. We're trying to record yesterday. We're like, we're going to push this back. We'll do it tomorrow, well, Tuesday night. And they're like, okay, so they hit their connecting flight. And then what? Thunder? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, storm.

Well, there was a storm.

I'll let me tell.

Weather.

Yeah, exactly.

A furious squaw. deflecting flight and then what, thunder? Oh, yeah. Yeah, storm.

Well, there was a storm.

I'll let me tell.

Weather.

Yeah, exactly. A furious squall came across the lake. We saw a man walking upon the waters. That's true. And then they said every time lightning strikes, it delayed it another 15 minutes. That's what the guy at the gate said. That's crazy. We were in D.C. we saw a figure walking across the water was Elon Musk.

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