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Wild Things:
A Recipe for Running a Middle School Gathering

Jennifer Galloway and Middle School Subcommittee, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Religious Education Committee, 1996, 10 pp. ($2.50)

Content: This is a guide for organizing successful small Middle School overnight gatherings. Offers ideas for program content as well as complete a complete recipe for a gathering from the pre-planning to the post cleanup stages.

Age Range: For adults who work with youth 10-13 years old.

Preparation Time: Requires extensive preparation.

Activities: Ideas for discussions, games, crafts, singing, and cooking, worship-sharing.

Supplies/Equipment: A large room for activities and overnight sleeping is required as well and kitchen and bathroom facilities.

Additional resources: Working with Middle Schoolers, and Just Do It!, available from the FGC Bookstore, and New England Yearly Meeting’s Guide to Planning a Youth Gathering, available from the Christian Education Committee of New England Yearly Meeting.


Published by Curriculum Working Group of the Religious Education Executive Concerns Group, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, September 1998 (reprinted, November 2001).

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