Raising funds for the Mbare-Saltash Partnership exchange trip in June 2026
How it works – The catalogue can be downloaded and viewed below or downloaded using the button after it
Once you have found an item you wish to bit for you can bid in three ways:
- Bid online and email your bid to zimbabwe@wesleyweb.co.uk
- Bid using a paper form and pop it in an envelope in the ‘H’ pigeon hole or through the letterbox at the back door
- Come to Saltash Wesley Church on the night of the 18th April from 6:30pm and bid in person using the paper forms
available in the Church
To make e-mailing your bid easier there are email links in each lot in the catalogue which will automatically set the subject of the item you wish to bid on. This auction is a silent auction – so bids will not be shared and the higest bid wins.
The Partnership
In the early 1990’s Mbare Methodist Church in Zimbabwe and Saltash Wesley Methodist Church agreed to form a Partnership. This involved a commitment to pray for each other, to share our personal testimonies and to gain an understanding of each other’s lives.
Mbare is a township within the capital city Harare and is one of the poorest places in Zimbabwe. In recent years the people in Mbare have suffered great hardship, with many homes being destroyed, acute food shortages, educational difficulties and lack of medical facilities.
We have an informal agreement that on the first Sunday of each month both Partnership congregations pray for the other, but we also keep in regular contact and bear particular concerns in our everyday prayers.
Although the Partnership was never intended to provide one-sided aid, the desperate needs in Mbare in recent years have meant that those of us in Saltash have felt the need to share what we have with our brothers and sisters in Zimbabwe. We regularly send money to the congregation in Mbare for poverty relief and specifically for school fees for the young people.
Since the Partnership was formed, we have sent four parties of young and older people from Wesley with a further one planned for June this year. Likewise five groups have come to us from Mbare. The gains, both spiritual and cultural, have been valuable and exciting for both congregations.
This promise auction is one in a series of events organised to raise funds for the next exchange visit when 11 members of Saltash Wesley Church will be visiting our partner church in Mbare, Zimbabwe. A huge thank you must go to those people from our congregation and friends and family members who have generously donated promises.
Bid high to be sure of winning!