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Brenda has been in youth ministry for twenty-nine years, twenty years with Wild Frontier. It is truly all she knows.  During her first nine years she served as youth pastor of churches in Minnesota and Virginia. In 1990, obeying her original call, Brenda started Wild Frontier. Since 1990 she has been with New Covenant Fellowship of Manassas, Virginia, serving the youth ministry as well as the church at large. Through Wild Frontier, Brenda has been publishing many “out there” youth ministry resources for youth pastors and has become a popular speaker, particularly for summer camps.

Brenda’s role with Wild Frontier and with her church has allowed her to do something outside of ministry. She has been a substitute teacher since 1992.

Through subbing, Brenda experiences public school life. She walks the halls and sits in the desks. She has broken up fist fights and food fights. She is also sought after to be shown some kind of achievement or to be trusted with some deep hurts. “Mrs. Seefeldt” is her favorite title because she knows that if she hears this when out and about in the community, it is a student or a former student and this person is seeking Brenda out to talk to her, often looking for yet another positive stroke from an adult whom they know believes in him/her.

Brenda’s experiences as a substitute teacher give her a unique message to youth. There is an immediate connection as your youth have had substitute teachers and they most likely have tried “stuff”on subs. They identify right away that Brenda probably really does know what is going on in their lives. As one youth pastor told her, “You are the first retreat speaker we’ve ever had who shared not what was done in the past, but what you are doing now.”

Brenda attended North Central Bible College (now North Central University) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Behavorial Science with a minor in Youth Ministry and was ordained by the Assembly of God denomination. This ordination is now recognized by New Covenant Fellowship.

In 1997 Brenda married John Amodea after fifteen years of ministry as a single. John plays an active role in Brenda’s ministry life but besides that, John has another career. Together Brenda and John own Paintball X3 and Hunt X3 magazines.  John is the man behind all that work.  John also is a former professional paintball player where he is still considered one of the top 100 players in the world even though he is now retired.

A certain pastor through conversation with Brenda discussing her drive in youth ministry made the statement, “Ease up a bit. Let kids be kids. We can’t expect too much from them. Think back, what were you doing at their age?” At their age, Brenda was out on the Wild Frontier leading prayer meetings and seeing friends saved on her school campus.

It is from here that makes Brenda a speaker you want to consider to bring to your ministry.

“…Thank you also for the effort you made when you weren’t speaking to connect and care for our youth. You understand so clearly that relationships are the key to lasting impact…” Dee Stayman, Hollowell Brethren in Christ Church

“…Brenda is a gifted communicator and relates so well with teenagers through real life stories and her ability to make scripture come alive. The ’silent time’ with God impacted the teens in a powerful way!” Matt Clawson, Christian Life Assembly

These are just a few of Brenda’s reference letters that are as current as this year and date back as far as 1992. Click on the letter to enlarge. Read more…

Brenda is a gifted teacher. But Brenda also realizes the art of preaching is a slowly fading method as a way to capture the mind of teens and give them a truth they can hang on to. Today’s teens know when to laugh and when to be moved at the right times. To quote a common quote, they have been entertained to death. As they file out to go home from your youth event, it is not unlike leaving a movie theatre after a touching, warmhearted movie. The teen tries to hold on to the fantasy the movie or message brought about but soon reality slides back in. The impact of the message is felt but it evaporates like a movie memory in the theatre or church parking lot.

In response to this reality, Brenda has messages where she speaks “at” the youth but she also has messages where the learning is done together, “with” the youth. In fact, these messages have become the more requested.  Each of the messages that are done “with” your youth group are designated by a *.

*1 John – The Practices of Christianity

Using the entire book of 1 John, teens learn what a Christian is (something all too often us adults assume they know already) and some of the practices of being a Christian such as Bible reading, prayer and loving one another.  Practical practices (descriptive word use on purpose here) are taught while at the same time the teens learn an entire book of the Bible which makes Bible reading less intimidating for them when they are on their own.

* Unsafe Jesus

This is a series on Jesus. Seriously. Too many youth have a wrong and distorted view of Jesus as the huge National Study on Youth and Religion revealed. Through the use of many creative teaching methods, teens will have opportunity to form a more Biblical view of Jesus and then commit to following the unsafe Jesus.

Lunchrooms

This is Brenda’s signature message which teaches about what it takes to share Christ at school. It is not necessarily a big thing because even a bag lunch will do. Brenda’s testimony is included in this message.

* Lunchrooms, Part Deux

As a way to follow up on Lunchrooms, Wild Frontier has prepared the Lunchrooms Folder full of ideas to effectively reach out in your school. This is a time for practics and discussion. You will be asked to pay $5 per folder to offset printing expenses or you can have the files sent to you and put together the folders yourself.

Campus Missionary Code of Behavior

All schools have a code of behavior which is studied the first week of school, quizzed on, and then you sign that commitment to abide by that Code of Behavior. As a campus missionary you are required to abide by the Code of Behavior–and then some. In doing so, you will gain the greatest privileges and influence. Learn how to gain those privileges and have a wider influence.

*How To Talk In Class

One of the students’ greatest opportunities to be a witness is to bring up conversation in class–when it is allowed. It could be those few minutes before the bell. It could be during group work time. Or it could be in one of those classes where the teacher allows talking. During those times of conversation, you can cleverly steer it in a positive direction or sit by and let it go negative (the students know how negative it can get). This practical talk provides plenty of ideas to move talking into the positive and onto some God- moments.

* Loyalty

Loyalty is such a powerful word. Many sins are committed because of loyalty. Many teens go through the legal system because of loyalty. Many emotions arise because of disloyalty. And loyalty is the response God asks us to have towards Him. We have a variable format focusing on this word–loyalty.

* Love for a Lifetime

Since 1987 Brenda has been preaching messages to youth to hold off on dating until after high school. The decisions that are made in middle school and high school will give you that love for a lifetime. Questions and answers time recommended.

* Timon and Pumbaa

Timon and Pumbaa are funny and loyal characters from Disney’s The Lion King. But they didn’t build up Simba to be king. We may have friends who are funny and loyal but they don’t build us up to be king. Questions and answers time recommended.

* The Gift of Pain

Using the disease of leprosy as a backdrop, teens will learn about pain and that maybe there is something good about it.

When Jesus Cries

Where is God when those bad things happen? Through some personal experiences, Brenda came to a point of decision. Either God was not real or did not love her or He is somewhere. God is somewhere and where He is He is crying.

Stooping God, Not a Stupid God

Loser. Waste of Life. Unwanted. Such names spoken over us become rocks in our life that we stone ourselves with. Through the story of the woman caught in adultery, the lesson is taught that Jesus has a complete other set of names for us and He is stooping down to tell us.

*God Questions

This can be done one of two ways. One is (after a good introduction) anonymous questions on anything are gathered from your group for Brenda to answer. Brenda’s credibility comes from 23 years of youth ministry experience and the research she does for the Stuffed Culture Resources.

The other format is using the questions Brenda uses with her students from school. These are “out there” questions that do not provide for Sunday School answers. They are designed for nonChristians to think differently about God. It may do the same with your youth.

Brenda Seefeldt, Wild Frontier, 309 Commerce Street, Box 66, Occoquan, VA 22125-0066, 571-239-3253 www.wildfrontier.org

Brenda is available to train your youth ministry team. Using 20-plus years of experience, learning, and lots of mistakes, Brenda can bless your team with some stretching and encouragement–with plenty of time allowed for everyone in the group to share and also teach.

Faith Development

A person’s faith develops from childhood to adulthood. With knowledge of how faith develops, parents and youth workers can make direct and indirect attempts to help build that faith. This is also a fun seminar as there are times when you will be asked to reflect on your own personal faith development–and you will see how your faith has developed. This is the one seminar Brenda feels is the most important to be taught to any ministry team as well as the parents.

Beyond Summer Camp Youth Ministry

This seminar is very, very discussion-based using some thought-provoking quotes and questions from those who dare look at youth ministry in different ways. Some of these questions are: Is the teenager disappearing? Are we raising mature Christian teenagers but failing to raise mature Christian adults? Why does the church strive to convenience people when people really thrive on challenge? Do we indirectly say, “don’t put me on a pedestal, just give me a stage”? Are youth being converted to Christian culture or the Christian faith? After everyone discusses and is stretched with new thoughts, you can decide what you want to apply to your youth ministry.

Family-Based Youth Ministry

This is a much talked about way to do youth ministry as we move into the next youth ministry revolution. It is talked about a lot with some who are making attempts. Brenda is actually doing Family-Based Youth Ministry in her church. Learn about the theory and come away with loads of ideas that have actually been done.

Rites of Passages

Another new possible youth ministry revolution is the church participating in rites of passages for teens. Learn about the theory and come away with ideas for parents to use and your church to use.

If Brenda does not use Scripture and does not encourage your youth to open their Bibles, she will buy the youth group pizza. Guaranteed!