The next BRUU Auction will be on November 1, 2025.  To get a sense of what’s coming, check out the 2024 catalog of “biddable” items and the Frequently Asked Questions page.

Items in the auction calalog have included dog sitting, vacation cabins, the Annual Bad Hat Bar-B-Que Dinner, a “liquid tour” of Scotland, jars of organic fig jam and the famously expensive lemon curd, rights to havest from a garden all summer, pool parties, inner tubing down the Shenandoah River, and more.  (If you had never heard of a Pythonopoly Game Night… well, it was your opportunity to join the party.) 

Every year around about October, you’ll start seeing silly hats during Sunday Worship and Coffee Hour.  These are donned by the Auction Committee who will be soliciting Auction Items, pot luck, set-up and clean-up crews and donations of beer, wine and soft drinks – all to make the annual Auction a perennial success!

The live auction is – well, lively.  In addition, we have items online for bidding.  Typically, the auction raises about $30,000 each year.  The 2024 auction beat the record, raising over $38,000.

Many members fill their calendar for the coming year by buying dinners, concerts, hikes, winery tours, tubing, music lessons and much, much more!  Events sold at the auction, some for $5 and some for much more (especially time at vacation cabins), create opportunities to get together outside the church building and get to know people better.

Thank you to our local 2024 donors:

Manassas Ballet Theater (Nutcracker 12/18-23   Love 3/7-9   Sleeping Beauty 5/9-11)
Manassas Symphony (Family Concert: Reveries 12/14 3:30)
Art Factory (Miracle on 34th Street 11/29-12/8)
The Man Cave
Calico Jack’s
Things I Love
Trude Blomso
Manassas Clay
Lume Asian Fusion
Foster’s Grille
Doug’s Deli
Ashby Jewelers
Curves Hair Studio
Caitlin Schneiderman

Auction Rules:

Item Donors:

You will receive an automated email that lists the winners of your items

Please coordinate a time and place to pick up/deliver the Auction Item

Bidders:

You will receive an automated email that lists the items you have won

It is important that Bidders settle their account and make final payment by November 15th

If you can not attend an event, you may designate an alternate to attend in your place

Please notify the Host to inform of the change in attendance

If a scheduled event is canceled, you are entitled to a refund, or you can consider the value as a donation to BRUU

Hosts:

You will receive an automated email that lists the winners attending your event

Please ensure you send an email reminding the attendees of the event and any coordinating instructions

If you are serving food, you should verify if attendees have any allergies or diet restrictions

Please notify attendees if a scheduled event needs to be changed

If an event needs to be canceled, please coordinate with the Auction Planning Team