WF Lifestyle Quote
Wild Frontier Living Foundational Quote: Every other human being has no choice but to bow to their human limitations. Only believers can draw upon God’s supernatural power to live beyond their limits. –Brenda Seefeldt
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How Youth Groups Can Help Save Troubled Teens
Read about an outsider's view of youth ministry from a how-to website that is not from a Christian perspective.
WF News: Next YM Shorts Issue is June 14
The fourth issue of YM Shorts will be released June 14. Writing submissions are being accepted now til June 10. Writer's guidelines are available in the banner window above.
We are excited to be releasing a fourth issue. Thank you for your continued interest.
Pair of Cleats: Beyond Summer Camp Ministry
The question has now been put out there. Any veteran in youth ministry may have already had the thought but Time Magazine put it in print. Is the teenager disappearing? Is the age of sweet 16, slumber parties (girls only, not mixed), and hours of car talk becoming something of another time? The life stage of teenager has only been around for 50 years, but will it be around much longer?
We are seeing the changes first hand. Boys and girls are becoming men and women physically between the ages of 10 to 13. Most ten year olds are not even invited to our youth meetings yet. Many high schoolers are getting into their career jobs while still in high school. My high school hires students to do their computer networking and webwork. Students are doing work on their teachers’ computers and getting paid. Think about that.
WF YM: Youth Services Are Designed as Outreach Opportunities for the Unchurched
Youth services are designed as outreach opportunities for the unchurched. This title was originally “borrowed” from another youth ministry article like this was some new youth ministry idea that needed to be mentioned in an article. Isn’t this why we do youth ministry?
Teens are more open to God and church than at any other time in their lives. However, too many of the unchurched youth are completely lost by our customs and codes. You know those customs and codes like how we worship, hand motions to certain songs, etc. The unchurched have no idea why we do those things nor are they comfortable sitting through those things. Your worship band may be powerful but to be a visitor and sit through 30 minutes of singing to lyrics you don’t know, music that is too loud (a frequent mistake in youth worship bands), and body movements that are supernatural or just weird is very uncomfortable. Often visitors are invited to hear a guest speaker or the cool youth worker or to talk about a certain topic in a small group. They weren’t warned about the weird singing which is usually the first thing up at a youth service.
WF Creation Care Stat
Before it was cool to be green, we at Wild Frontier have been encouraging youth workers to at least put a Creation Care stat on their websites or newsletters to help connect faith to this important issue with teens.
If the entire population of the United States washed their clothes exclusively with cold water (instead of hot), we would save $3 billion in energy costs annually and cut national CO2 emissions by over a full percent. (GoingGreenToday.com, May 3, 2010)
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