The Build It! Toolkit is an intergenerational community resource for meetings and worship groups.
The activities and workshops in the Build It! Toolkit are designed to
- strengthen and nurture ties among generations in our meetings, worship groups, and churches
- contribute to meetings’ efforts to identify and cultivate emerging leaders
Workshops and activities are for Friends from elementary-school age through retirement
10 Reasons to lead Build It! activities at your meeting:
- Strengthen connections as a spiritual community
- Learn about other meetings’ good practices to reach out to and include youth and young adults
- Cultivate future leaders now
- Reach out to young adults who have geographically relocated from your meeting
- Make your meeting more welcoming to younger seekers and sojourners
- Include all ages in your community
- Identify and use your meeting’s and individual members’ gifts
- Talk, play, worship together and strengthen lifelong relationships
- Empower each other and create space to listen deeply to each other and the Divine
- Youth and young adults aren’t the future of our meetings - they are the present
Start leading activities in your meeting - use these documents to help you prepare, publicize and lead
Time line and check list
Notes and advice on use
1.5hr workshop template
2hr workshop template
4hr workshop template