Bromham Benefice:
Bromham, Oakley and Stagsden Churches Welcome You
Welcome to Bromham Benefice website!
The Benefice is made up of three rural parishes to the west of Bedford – Bromham, Oakley and Stagsden. Our three beautiful and ancient churches have been part of their communities for hundreds of years, and continue to provide a focus for Christian worship, growth and outreach.
We would love to welcome you to any of our services or events, so do come and get to know us; and please get in touch if you need more information about anything on this website, or you have a specific question.
If you wish to visit one of our churches outside service times please contact the relevant churchwarden or our Administrator who can arrange access (all churches are kept locked), please see our Who’s Who page for contact details.
Services in the next two weeks
We welcome people from all our villages to each service: we join together as one congregation, travelling to worship in different church buildings. Our 10.30am service is live-streamed most Sundays via Zoom. Visit the Services page for more information about services in church and also for the Zoom link and phone numbers.
Weekly on a Monday
9.00am Morning Prayer via Zoom only
Sunday 17th May
9.00am Holy Communion- St Leonard’s Stagsden
10.30am Communion service with hymns- St Owen’s Bromham* followed by APCM
Tuesday 19th May
11.30am Holy Communion followed by light lunch- St Owen’s Fellowship Room, Bromham
Sunday 24th May
9.00am Holy Communion- St Owen’s Bromham
10.30am Communion service with hymns- St Mary’s Oakley*
*these services are live streamed
Annual Parochial Church Meetings
The Annual Parochial Church Meeting for 2026 in each of our churches will be held as follows:
St Owen’s Bromham Sunday 17th May 12noon
St Mary’s Oakley Wednesday 20th May 7pm
The Electoral Rolls will be revised before then, and the Trustees’ reports will be distributed to everyone on the Electoral Roll of that church. Please see the ‘Current Communications’ box for the formal notices of the meetings and ER revisions.
Safeguarding
We take the care and well-being of all our members very seriously. Our benefice safeguarding co-ordinator is Judith Denyer and she can be reached on safeguarding@bromhambenefice.org or 07981 928522.
Read our Benefice Safeguarding statement.
Read our Benefice Statement on Domestic Abuse
Read our privacy policy
Ascension Day Thrsday 14th May
We will mark this special day, when Jesus returned to heaven after promising to send the Holy Spirit to his followers, in two services:
10.30 at St Owen’s Bromham – a service led by Al Morrow which will mark the start of the 11 days of ‘Thy Kingdom Come’, when we are encouraged to pray specifically for 5 friends or family members to come to know Jesus for themselves.
7.30pm at St Peter’s Sharnbrook – a Deanery Ascension Day service with Confirmations, led by Bishop Rob Wickham. Some of our choir are singing, and all are welcome to come along.