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Wild Frontier is a mindset. It is a mindset that there is something more out there than what is normal. It is a mindset of following God’s leading to more of what God has for you in ministry, particularly youth ministry. We have adopted this mindset to our youth ministry resources to walk alongside you as you take your life and ministry out on the Wild Frontier.
We’ve been a resource since 1990, an online resource since 1995. Besides free downloads available sporadically as ideas are created and/or submitted, we’ve been producing Pair of Cleats since 1992 and Moms & Pops Stuff since 2003. In 2010 we introduced our digital magazine, YM Shorts. Pre-internet resources were Stuff, Stuffnet, Stufffax, and Stuffed Statistical Collection.
We have a partner-site, ChurchFamilyBasedYouthMinistry.org or CFBYM.org. This website contains our many Wild Frontier resources for this practice of youth ministry which we believe very much in. This is a user-generated site with everyone's practical ideas available for free so more and more churches may be encouraged to practice a more church family friendly youth ministry.
Wild Frontier is also the covering for national youth speaker, Brenda Seefeldt.
All of this exists because we believe in youth ministry. We hope to inspire and resource all of those who have a love and a call to reach teenagers with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Our Statement of Faith is:
Wild Frontier believes the Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit and is the flawless Word of God. We believe in the trinity of God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – and that He is holy. We believe that Jesus Christ is God’s only Son, born of a virgin, that He made complete payment for our sin nature through His sinless life, death on the cross, and resurrection. We believe in the second coming of Christ, the resurrection of the living and the dead, and eternal life either with Christ or lost forever. We believe that those who accept the free gift of salvation through Christ are born of God’s Holy Spirit and are brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus.
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Thank you for blowing away our goals for YM Shorts. Since our spring issue has been released 7 days ago, it has been read by 3,011 individual readers. The readership of the first issue for the first 30 days was only 5,238 (and we were thrilled with that number!).
The numbers are now in for our first 30 days of the spring issue. The readership so far is 7,011. Where are you all coming from? We are still amazed!
The summer issue will be released September 15. Writer submissions are due August 1. We hope you will contribute. Please check out our Writer’s Guidelines for more details. But even if you don’t, thank you for reading and telling others.
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Brenda Seefeldt Published In youth Worker Journal
Once again Brenda has been published in Youth Worker Journal. Her latest article, “10 Reasons Parents Should Be Part Of Your Youth Ministry,” is featured in the March/April issue. You can subscribe to Youth Worker Journal Here.
Youth Worker Book of Hope
Authors Include Wild Frontier Founder Brenda Seefeldt
The Youth Worker Book of Hope offers you encouragement and hope in those moments of darkness by using experiences and advice from people who have been through the valley and learned from it. Youth workers from around the country have contributed personal stories of their own desire to quit, confrontations with parents, struggles with running the ministry, getting fired, and many more. In “her” chapter, “When Parents Don’t Respect You,” Brenda talks about the epiphany she had in 1999 that changed her ministry after 16 years of being Brenda-centric. Today she has a very different perspective of the connection between parents and youth ministry.
The Youth Worker Book of Hope is available at www.youthspecialties.com and bookstores everywhere.
Celebrating 20 Years of Ministry, and 15 Years Online
In honor of our twenty years of ministry and fifteen years online we decided to take a look at the Wild Frontier Wayback Machine. Take peak at what we’ve looked like over the years.
YWJ Quote
A quote from Brenda Seefeldt was a part of the February 9, 2010, Youthworker eJournal. She was the YWJ Quote of the Week. The actual quote is:
“We spend too much time on issues and not enough on teaching life lessons, providing enough mentoring and following up.”
–Brenda Seefeldt This was taken from a previously published article entitled, “They’re Not Grown Up Yet: Leaving Adult Decisions for Adulthood”.
Hear Brenda
Please click on the “Sample” button below to listen to a seven-minute audio clip from one of Brenda’s signature messages — “Lunchrooms.”
- Click HERE to download “Lunchrooms” (.zip file) to your hard drive. Choose the “Save As” option. This is a 9 meg file and will take a few minutes to download.
WF Founder Brenda Seefeldt Featured in Group Magazine
Brenda’s article entitled “Growing a Youth Ministry That Looks a Lot Like Your Church” is one of five featured articles in the September/October issue of Group Magazine. Friend and contributor to Wild Frontier, Danette Matty, wrote an article that piggybacks to Brenda’s article.
WF Green Redemption Stories
In the Pair of Cleats “Creation Care is Youth Ministry, ” we encourage you to include Creation Care redemption stories on your website as a way to support Creation Care, which is of high concern for this generation of teens. The following two stories are so innovative and powerful that we encourage you to post them (with proper referencing):
Story #1: Rock festivals have long been a gathering for excessive amounts of garbage. The Roskilde Festival of Denmark has changed their format to “Less Trash ‑ More Music.” Attendees were encouraged to cut back on the amount of trash they generated. Attendees were also given their own bags to fill with trash and were given a reward of beer or chocolate milk for every bad. There was also a competition for who could collect the most garbage. The winner collected 1,048 bags of garbage and won backstage passes to Neil Young’s performance.
At the 2007 festival, trash clean up took more than 500 people and several weeks to clean up the trash at a price tag of over a million Euros. (Trendcentral, August 6, 2008)
Story#2: Mark the Litter Guy is an unemployed homeless man in Toronto who was uninterested in panhandling. Instead he gets trash bags and has dedicated himself to cleaning the city’s streets day in and day out. Torontians respect him for choosing a non‑intrusive way to make money (he does not ask for money but accepts donations) and celebrate him for beautifying their streets. He sometimes receives so much more than panhandlers in the area that he will give them some change. (Trendcentral, August 6, 2008)
Secret Lives of Teenagers in Group Magazine
Group surveys youth workers every few months to help know what articles are needed in the magazine. The top vote-getter by far was youth ministry mistakes. So Brenda was one of three active youth pastors asked to talk about her mistakes for this issue’s cover story for the July/August 2007 issue. – Group Magazine
New Book Featuring Brenda Seefeldt of Wild Frontier
Lasting Student Ministry is a new E-Book written by Scott Aughtmon, in which 14 top student ministry leaders reveal what they’d do if they had to start all over again. Brenda was one of the student ministry leaders interviewed. She joins 13 others who are authors, conference speakers, founders of ministries, and youth pastors/student pastors of large groups around the country. The unique format provides lots of practical insight from various youth ministry doers who’s answers don’t always agree with Brenda’s. Click here to read more about Lasting Student Ministry and purchase your copy through our webpage to show your Wild Frontier support. Click here to read more about Lasting Student Ministry
Brenda's article,"Bring the Whole Family: Church-and Family Based Youth Ministry," is featured in the September/October issue of Youth Worker Journal in the "Stirring It Up" last page column of the magazine. You can order a copy or subscribe at 
