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Youth Group Chronicles

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Comedy

4.9 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week, Sam is joined by Cole Clark and John Cuomo for an episode packed with the kind of youth group stories you truly couldn’t script—even if you tried. From a chaotic game of Mafia that takes an unexpected romantic turn, to a service moment that goes completely off the rails, the stories just keep escalating. There’s a well-meaning student sermon that derails an altar call, a camp tradition that comes back in the most unfortunate way, and a mission trip decision that would never fly today. Along the way, Cole shares a personal story about finances that hits a little too close to home, while John helps process the absurdity of it all. It’s equal parts hilarious, uncomfortable, and wildly unforgettable—basically everything you’d expect when youth ministry stories go off script.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, my name is Sam Moss.
0:07.0	Welcome to Youth Group Chronicles.
0:09.2	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.
0:18.7	I hope you enjoy the show.
0:23.8	What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to Youth Group Chronicles. Today's topic is misappropriation of funds. We have a pretty
0:30.7	deep research department that's been going in and researching misappropriation of funds all right you guys got
0:38.4	out of your system we're good all right i have a feeling there's some more coming because now everyone's just
0:43.1	confused about i talk about misappropriation of fun this is where people sending their craziest craziest
0:47.8	youth ministry stories and we especially ones about misappropriation. Yeah.
1:11.6	Yo, okay, everyone in the chat's like, come do a live show here, come do a live show here. Come to Florida. We literally went to Florida and did the show once or twice. How many times we've been there? And we'll literally do it again if you put this. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Someone said Indiana, better go. We were in Indiana. We're going back to Indiana. What's the town we're going to, the city?
1:13.1	It's like right outside Chicago.
1:13.9	It is Hobart.
1:11.2	Hobart. Indiana. We're in Indiana. We're going back to Indiana. What's the town we're going to,
1:26.6	the city? It's like right outside Chicago. Hobart. Hobart. It's like 30 minutes out. It's Hobart. It's Hobart. But I also heard that they call it Hobart for people who don't live there because they don't think we'll be able to say it correctly. It's like July 18th or 19, something like that. That weekend that Saturday. And they were like,
1:27.2	it's actually a Holbert.
1:28.1	And then I asked someone
1:28.9	was there and they're like,
1:29.6	yeah,
1:29.9	but like,
1:30.3	is it a spell? 18th or 19 something like that. That weekend that Saturday. And they were like, it's actually Hobart.
1:27.9	And then I asked someone was there and they're like, yeah, but like... Is it spelled A-R-T? It's E-R-T. Herbert, yeah. Jonah said, is that Jonah? Jonah said my... No, no, no. Chris said first live, big fan of the pot. Welcome Chris. Come to Iceland. come to Iceland
1:44.8	Dude, I thought that was a movie
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