General Guidelines
We are accepting articles for Pair of Cleats. Pair of Cleats is a monthly subscriber-based (free) article with the purpose of providing thoughts and practics of challenging and “out there” youth ministry. This has been published through Wild Frontier since 1992.
We welcome well-supported and complete thoughts and we welcome practical ideas that support your thoughts.
The subject areas we are accepting articles on are:
- What we call Church Family-Based Youth Ministry or what others are calling Intergenerational Youth Ministry.
- How to incorporate parents more into youth ministry.
- Creative teaching methods for youth meetings.
- Creative ways to create holy and sacred moments for youth (and their parents).
- Creative ideas beyond the traditional youth meeting format.
- Ideas you’ve learned to remove yourself from the You-Centered Youth Ministry style.
- Ideas and wow-thoughts you’ve had about your approach to the high school.
- Ideas on how you celebrate rites of passages and spiritual markers.
- Longevity in youth ministry.
Getting paid
Regretfully we are not in a position yet to be able to offer any pay. We do offer your voice to our subscribers and website visitors and hope that this gives you another platform to share something you are passionate about.
Guidelines
- We accept .doc and .docx documents.
- Single space entire text.
- Article length is between 1,000 and 3,000 words. If you plan on writing a lengthy article, please remember your target audience may not have the time to appreciate the wisdom of a lengthy article. However, sometimes they may.
- When referencing sources, be sure to give complete references. We will link to every hyperlink you mention.
- Add a complete byline. We will link everything you submit.
- Please submit to Amanda@wildfrontier.org.
History and Who Wild Frontier Is
Wild Frontier Resource Ministry is the creation of long-time youth pastor and teacher, Brenda Seefeldt. It was created back in 1990 at a time when Brenda felt the current trajectory of relational youth ministry was not working. She, and others with her, have used this forum since then to highlight and talk about these new ideas. We were early into the internet world with a open-forum website in 1995.
The term Wild Frontier comes from a Randy Stonehill song off of his 1986 album “The Wild Frontier.” We use the name and lyrics with permission from Stonehill himself. It denotes that something greater than what we currently know is out there. We believe that about youth ministry and about our daily life of following God’s plan.
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. 
