The name Wild Frontier was inspired by a song written by Randy Stonehill called “The Wild Frontier” Do you notice the similarity to the cover art of the album to our Randy character?  Also, this is how we named our character Randy.  Randy Stonehill long ago gave us permission to use his song as our inspiration and checks in on us here and there.  Thank you, Randy.

In 2009 Randy Stonehill recorded an album with friend Phil Keaggy called “Mystery Highway.”  That album contains a song entitled “Irresistible Future” which has the same theme as “The Wild Frontier.”  We think this is not a coincidence that Randy would honor our 20th anniversary with a modern-day twist on what the Wild Frontier is.

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

Wild Frontier thinking is 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.

In line with Wild Frontier, we are proud to announce YM Shorts, an interactive digital magazine of ideas submitted by real youth workers to give you ideas as you live your life and lead your ministry on the Wild Frontier. We have teamed with X3 Publications, a leader in digital publishing technologies.

YM Shorts will consist of sixty short idea articles.  The interactive digital format provides the ability for written words as well as video content.  The six categories of ideas are:

Church Family Stuff: All ideas that bridge the teens to the church family.

Parent Stuff: All ideas that bridge the youth ministry to the parent.

Youth Stuff: All ideas which can add to the youth ministry program, worship times, small group, discipleship, drama, Sunday School, etc.

Me Stuff: All ideas which you have found to keep yourself focused, refreshed, restored, accountable in your personal faith as you serve the church.

Do Stuff: All ideas to help with mission trips, retreat, servant projects, outreach, etc.

Connection Stuff:  All ideas on how to communicate to the teens, to the senior pastor to the building supervisor as well as use of technology.

YM Shorts will be available for free and can be viewed within the browser of anyone with an internet connection.  The first issue will be available September 15.

We are now actively seeking writers in all areas of content.  Writers are asked to contribute 150- word shorts and/or upload the idea or part of the idea via video.  We are paying $10 for each idea submitted or $35 for three ideas submitted.  Please check out our writers guidelines.

We are also actively seeking advertisers.  What our format offers advertisers is streaming video in your advertisement, unlimited live links within the content of your ad, all advertisers receive monthly viewer reports which includes the number of unique readers, number of page impressions, and the number of click-throughs all of which are unavailable with a print ad.  Click here and we will send you our media kit.

Wild Frontier is in our 20th year of providing resources for youth workers.  We’ve been producing Pair of Cleats since 1992 and Moms & Pops Stuff since 2003.  Pre-internet resources were Stuff, Stuffnet, Stufffax, and Stuffed Statistical Collection.

X3 Publications also publishes Paintball X3 and Hunt X3 which are the largest interactive digital magazines in both those industries.

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.

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”.