A paraclete is someone who walks alongside someone. We’ve got our cleats on to walk alongside you.
Creating memories and experiences for your teens is one of the bottom-line goals for youth ministry. It is certainly what we at Wild Frontier have learned over our twenty years of searching and questioning. Experiencing is also the number one task in Faith Shaping and is at the core of spiritual formation.
Some churches do require office time, some don’t. I have heard too many conversations about how youth ministry cannot happen in your office. That would be the kind of youth ministry which is built around me, a Brenda ministry. If you are spending significant amounts of your time with teens off-site of the church, the youth ministry may be too centered on you. Your role as the youth minister is to raise the youth in the church family. That takes office time as you do your creative thing to get adults involved in teens’ lives.
“The Glory of God is a man fully alive.” –St. Irenaeus of Lyons
More WF Lifestyle Thinking…
“Rather than shrinking our vision, the text (Bible) should become a pair of eyes with which we are able to see even more. There’s a great big world out there with quantum physics, and architecture, and economic theory, and the thread count of clothing, and the fact that refrigerators in Europe are smaller—all of these seemingly random events and occurrences and happenings are all connected and help us see how this really is God’s world.”
Once again Brenda has been published in Youth Worked 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.
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.
Shut off excess electric stuff. 75% of all the electricity consumed in the home is standby power used to keep electronics running when those TVs, DVRs, computers, monitors and stereos are “off.” The average desktop computer, not including the monitor, consumes from 60 to 250 watts a day. Compared with a machine left on 24/7, a computer that is in use four hours a day and turned off the rest of the time would save you about $70 a year. (U.S. Department of Energy, Time.com, 2007)
More Creation Care Thinking…
Brenda Seefeldt is the founder of Wild Frontier and has been in youth ministry since 1981 Locally she serves as the youth pastor at New Covenant Fellowship in Manassas, Virginia, where she has been since 1990. The rest of the Wild Frontier team are faithful volunteers who have been with Brenda for years. 
