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Writer’s Guidelines for YM Shorts

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YM Shorts is an interactive digital magazine of ideas submitted by real youth workers to give readers practical ideas for youth ministry and personal growth.  Each issue will contain sixty 150-word articles with each article containing an idea which can be used in youth ministry.  The article can be submitted as text or as a video. The digital format of the magazine allows for both.  For example, if you created a video instructional segment for the training of volunteers, we would publish that.  Or another example of how video can be used is instead of explaining the retreat game, you can teach it on video.  These are just examples of the many varied ways video can be used.

Each issue will feature ten articles in the following six categories:

  • Church Family Stuff: All ideas that bridge the teens to the church family.  After the idea is published, it will also be archived at ChurchFamilyBasedYouthMinistry.org.
  • Parent Stuff: All ideas that bridge to the youth ministry to the parent.  This varies widely from meeting ideas to object lessons to communication to parenting resources.  After the idea is published, it will also be archived at ChurchFamilyBasedYouthMinistry.org.
  • Youth Stuff: All ideas which can add to the youth ministry program, worship times, small group, discipleship, drama, Sunday School, etc.
  • Me Stuff: All ideas which you have found to keep yourself focused, refreshed, restored, accountable in your personal faith as you serve the church.  Health and fitness tips specific for youth workers are welcomed also.
  • Do Stuff: All ideas to help with mission trips, retreat, servant projects, outreach, etc.
  • Connection Stuff: All ideas on how to communicate to the teens, to the senior pastor, to the church staff including the building supervisor, and everyone else in the church family.  This also includes all use of technology.

Getting Paid

For each 150-word article we use, we pay $10.  If you submit three 100-word articles in one submission, we pay $35.

Submission Instructions

  • We accept .doc and .docx documents for word articles.
  • Single space entire text.  We are firm about the 150-word limit.
  • Add a complete byline. We will link everything you submit.
  • If you are submitting a video piece please upload that to your YouTube channel and send us the link here. If you do not have a YouTube account please email us and we’ll send you instructions on how to send us your video piece.
  • Please send your completed YM Shorts TEXT piece to us HERE

Writer’s Guidelines for Pair of Cleats

We are accepting articles for Pair of Cleats. Pair of Cleats is a monthly subscriber-based (free) article with the purpose of providing thoughts and practics of challenging and “out there” youth ministry. This has been published through Wild Frontier since 1992.

We welcome well-supported and complete thoughts and we welcome practical ideas that support your thoughts.

The subject areas we are accepting articles on are:

  • What we call Church Family-Based Youth Ministry or what others are calling Intergenerational Youth Ministry.
  • How to incorporate parents more into youth ministry.
  • Creative teaching methods for youth meetings.
  • Creative ways to create holy and sacred moments for youth (and their parents).
  • Creative ideas beyond the traditional youth meeting format.
  • Ideas you’ve learned to remove yourself from the You-Centered Youth Ministry style.
  • Ideas and wow-thoughts you’ve had about your approach to the high school.
  • Ideas on how you celebrate rites of passages and spiritual markers.
  • Longevity in youth ministry.

Getting paid

Regretfully we are not in a position yet to be able to offer any pay. We do offer your voice to our subscribers and website visitors and hope that this gives you another platform to share something you are passionate about.

Guidelines

  • We accept .doc and .docx documents.
  • Single space entire text.
  • Article length is between 1,000 and 3,000 words. If you plan on writing a lengthy article, please remember your target audience may not have the time to appreciate the wisdom of a lengthy article. However, sometimes they may.
  • When referencing sources, be sure to give complete references. We will link to every hyperlink you mention.
  • Add a complete byline. We will link everything you submit.
  • Please submit to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

History and Who Wild Frontier Is

Wild Frontier Resource Ministry is the creation of long-time youth pastor and teacher, Brenda Seefeldt. It was created back in 1990 at a time when Brenda felt the current trajectory of relational youth ministry was not working. She, and others with her, have used this forum since then to highlight and talk about these new ideas. We were early into the internet world with a open-forum website in 1995.

The term Wild Frontier comes from a Randy Stonehill song off of his 1986 album “The Wild Frontier.” We use the name and lyrics with permission from Stonehill himself. It denotes that something greater than what we currently know is out there. We believe that about youth ministry and about our daily life of following God’s plan.