The Build It! Toolkit is an intergenerational community resource for meetings and worship groups. Use the menu bar at the right (for a desktop) or at the bottom of the screen (mobile devices) to explore resources.
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
- Timeline and checklist
- Notes and advice on use
- 1.5 hour workshop template
- 2 hour workshop template
- 4 hour workshop template
Additional Resources
The 12 How-Tos of Intergenerational Community. This resource provides free, printable leaflets to give advice to meetings wishing to build intergenerational community. These leaflets are taken from the Build It! Toolkit, a resource available from QuakerBooks of FGC. They are designed to give some key suggestions for nurturing a healthy and diverse meeting community of all ages.