198: Coffin Up a Sermon (Cole Clark & Mackenzie Smolin)

Youth Group Chronicles

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Comedy

4.9 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Sam is joined by Cole Clark and Mackenzie Smolin for an episode packed with the kind of chaos only youth ministry can produce. From a pastor’s bold coffin sermon illustration that went wildly off-script, to a campfire testimony that sparked an extremely awkward misunderstanding, to indoor obstacle courses involving electric fencing, ATV mishaps, late-night cabin nightmares, and a youth trip moment that left a leader questioning life itself—these stories escalate fast and leave you wondering how any of us survived youth group at all…

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0:50.1	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
0:55.3	have happened while serving in youth ministry. I hope you enjoy the show.
1:02.1	What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to Youth Group Chronicles. I'm having a lot of fun with this
1:07.4	combo that we have tonight. Cole and McKenzie, welcome back to the pod, the YGC Studios. It's good to have you here. I've been enjoying the episodes. I don't know if you guys have. I've been enjoying it. It's been a lot of fun. There's been a lot of one topic. So I'm wondering if a third one is going to show up on this one. I don't know. But welcome to our chat as well. Hello from Texas. Kevin says what's up. What's up? Kevin. Kevin Cody. Oh, wow. We got a lot on tonight. Jordan from Virginia. You're from upstate New York. What's upstate New York? What's upstate?
1:41.7	Watching from Ghana? That's fire. Nice. All right. 22. A.m. in Ghana. That's up from up saying? I'm watching from Ghana. That's fire.
1:44.6	Nice. All right. 22am. in Ghana. That's crazy dedication right there.
1:50.6	But Seth, welcome from Louisiana. If this is your first time, listen to the pod. This is where
1:55.1	people send in their craziest youth ministry stories. And we read them right here on the podcast.
1:59.9	Hey, we got Florida representing
2:01.1	Oregon. Josiah Fitzgerald. Where do I know that name from? I don't know. Josiah, I might know
2:06.3	you, bro. You just got a shout out, Josiah. So I might know you, Josiah, but I might not. Shout
2:11.3	out Josiah Fitzgerald. All right. This is a story from Casey. At summer camp, a youth minister shared his testimony around the fire.
2:20.6	It centered around a, it centered around being a star athlete in high school until a freak pole vaulting accident, put him in a coma for several days.
2:30.7	After he finished.
2:32.0	Is that funny?
2:34.1	Is that funny? Is that funny?
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