The Methodist City Mission launched the Wesley Community Centre (WCC) in 1994 as a community outreach and project development agency for the mission. Since then, the mission has developed a range of community-based projects dealing with unemployment, skills development, child care, refugee support, social housing, food relief, social hospitality and HIV/AIDS. Currently, the WCC manages eleven projects.

City Manna

City Manna produces communion wine and wafers and is the oldest project at the Wesley Community Centre. It was started in March 1998 as a job creation and skills development project to empower men and women in the community. The first baking iron was imported from the Netherlands and the project has since expanded to include a total of four baking irons. There are three full-time workers employed by the project, two of whom have worked at the project for at least seven years. Thus the project has enabled the two families to receive a sustainable income during this period.

City Threads

City Threads was set up as a job creation and skills development project to empower men and women in our community. The project was set up nine years ago and, although the project took time to develop, it now has the capacity to sustain itself. The mainstay of the project is the manufacture of clerical shirts, but it has also diversified into the production of gowns, cassocks and uniforms as well as other commercial work. It currently employs four people: three seamstresses and one packer.

Salem Children's Centre and Salem After-Care Centre

Salem Children's Centre is a project of the Wesley Community Centre based at the Methodist City Mission in Pretoria. Salem began in 1999 with the aim of providing affordable, quality education to children in the inner city. In 2006, the need for children to be cared for after school led to the opening of the after-care facility.

Wesley English Centre

The Wesley English Centre offers English, Afrikaans and French language classes to refugees at elementary, intermediate and advanced level. After completing each course and relevant examinations, the students are awarded certificates of competence by the centre. Currently, there are 45 students enrolled in classes from the DRC, Cameroon, Comoros, Gabon, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and the Ivory Coast. Many of the refugees are victims of poverty, homelessness and rejection. Acquiring language skills empowers the refugees to find employment and become accepted within the city.

Living Stones

Living Stones provides affordable living space for people who are on low incomes and are trying to establish themselves in the city. Opened in 2003, Living Stones consists of three buildings, each housing six single rooms, two double rooms, an open plan kitchen, toilets and showers. A vital part of our mission at Methodist City Mission is Mission as Community. Living Stones represents a major investment and commitment to mission as a community.

Wesley Conference Centre

The Wesley Conference Centre serves as an affordable meeting place for organisations and groups needing meeting space in the centre of Pretoria. The Baker Hall, Hartley Hall and the church sanctuary are available for functions, offering the gift of hospitality in the inner city.

Amogelang

Amogelang is the hospitality and catering project of the Wesley Community Centre. Under dynamic and experienced management, Amogelang offers catering facilities to the immediate community and the wider public. The services offered vary from catering for tea and biscuits for management meetings to decorating and preparing for formal functions.

Connexion - Methodist Bookshop

Connexion, also based on the church premises, offers a range of Christian books and resource materials to the public. This includes the supply of vernacular hymnbooks and catechisms which are also used in other denominations.

Guidestar

Guidestar offers a range of quality office facilities at competitive prices to the church, the community centre and the public, providing job creation, training and empowerment.

Mahube HIV/AIDS Project

Mahube, seSotho for 'the dawn', seeks to bring comfort and hope to those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS through practical expressions of healing and care.

The Healing Centre offers free VCT, ongoing counselling, training in schools and on site, as well as a twice weekly meeting place for a support group.

The Care Centre is a six-bed facility providing free short-term nursing care to HIV+ patients from marginalised communities.

Epworth House, with a full-time house mother, is a permanent home for five children affected by the virus.

The most recent addition to Mahube, in May 2007, is the Fountain of Hope, offering anti-retroviral treatment and support to AIDS patients.

Naledi

Naledi seeks to alleviate poverty in the rural areas of Hebron and Lethabong through the establishment of community initiated enterprises which empower people to meet their own needs. The project was initiated following a visit from a team of American Missionaries who were taken to the Sjambok School in 2004, which was in a crisis situation. The school, now renamed Tshwaraganang School, has a new building and the children have received medical treatment and improved nourishment.

Through the WCC, two other rural sites at Lethabong and Thusanang were also identified as places of need and incorporated into Naledi. The projects in Lethabong include a crêche for preschool children, an HIV/AIDS Support Group that generates income from recycled paper products, and Soul Sparkles, children who look after their orphaned siblings. In Hebron, the projects include a nutrition programme for the local school, a sewing project for the ladies to generate income to equip their children for school and a dream to convert the old school buildings into a community centre.