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.

Brenda Seefeldt Published in YouthWorker Journal

Wild Frontier founder Brenda Seefeldt has an article in the July/August 2009 issue of YouthWorker Journal . The subject for this journal is School, a subject Brenda has a lot of experience with and a lot of opinion on. Her article contains many firsthand tips of the school experience and how youth workers can be a blessing. Steven Turner, a guest writer for Wild Frontier, also has an article in this issue.

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.

Wild Frontier in 1995

Wild Frontier in 2000

Wild Frontier in 20001

Wild Frontier in 2003

Wild Frontier in 2006

Wild Frontier in 2009

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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”.

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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.

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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)

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Secret Lives of Teenagers in Group Magazine

Brenda Seefeldt wrote the cover story for Group for the January/February 2007 issue.   – Group Magazine

Read About Brenda’s Youth Ministry Mistakes in this month’s 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

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