UMYF Story…
I love helping out with youth group for thousands of reasons… one of them is it increases my opportunity to laugh so hard that tears come to my eyes. Yesterday I asked one of the girls (let’s call her Sierra) about the highlight of her week, she smiled at another girl (let’s call her Nicole) and said, reading Nicoles Facebook quotes. “Really?” I questioned, “What was it?” Through laughs she explained this story:
About a year or so ago the youth went on a retreat and met up with other youth groups around the conference. On the last evening service they shared communion. Being the last night Sierra was tired and spacing out. Nicole proceeded to explain that Sierra was dozing when they explained the process of intinction (taking the bread and dipping it into the grape juice) and that they would pass around small rocks for the youth to take to remember some spiritual significance. Being a good Methodist, Sierra made it through the intinction, and as the basket of rocks came around she took one, thinking that it was an “after communion mint” and put it in her mouth! Suddenly, she realized that this was not a mint, but a ROCK, she reverently removed it from her mouth and turned to Nicole to whisper/scream “Nicole! Don’t eat the mints!! It’s a ROCK!”
Maybe you just had to be there, or listen to two 17 year old girls tell this story between laughs and embarrassment… but by the end on the story I was laughing so hard that my eyes were watering! I love UMYF (United Methodist Youth Fellowship)!
