Welcome to The Burnham Churches

 

Lent in the Burnhams

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During Lent we will run two Lent courses using the Pilgrim Course sessions on the Lord’s Prayer. Both will be on Mondays, beginning 10 March. The morning course will be at 10am and evening course at 7pm. They will be at the Rectory. Please contact the vicar if you are interested in joining us. 

PRAYER FOR THE WEEK

 

Almighty God,
whose Son Jesus Christ fasted forty days in the wilderness,
 
and was tempted as we are, yet without sin:
 
give us grace to discipline ourselves in obedience to your Spirit;
 
and, as you know our weakness,
so may we know your power to save;
 
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
 
in the unity of the Holy Spirit, 
one God, now and for ever.
 
 

ENQUIRIES

To contact the vicar, Malcolm Rogers, email burnhamchurches@gmail.com or phone/whatsapp 07856 951627

Contact details for churchwardens can be found here

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If you would like to go on our Burnham churches Whatsapp information group (the chat is disabled), please click here or whatsapp 07856 951627

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Services and events

We have services every Sunday at 8am and 10am and evensong at 6:30pm.

SUNDAY 16 MARCH
The 8am and 10am services are at
BURNHAM WESTGATE
The 6:30pm service is at 
BURNHAM SUTTON

A map showing the location of our churches can be found here

We hope that you will find a very warm welcome in our special buildings, although would suggest you dress warm in colder weather! We place emphasis on faithful teaching, giving space for people to encounter God and building community. We use the contemporary and traditional liturgical services of the Church of England. Most morning services are celebrations of Holy Communion. 

There is also morning prayer each week at Westgate at 8:30am on Mondays, and a Book of Common Prayer service at 9:30am at Sutton on Wednesdays.

Services are held in a different church each Sunday of the month, so please do check below to see where the services will be held.

If you would like to find out what is happening in the Holkham benefice, click here: https://stnicholaswells.co.uk/ 

Concerts

FRIDAY 28 MARCH
“Look towards Easter!” the title of the first concert with Burnham Market Primary School this year. On Friday March 28th at 4pm at All Saints Church Sutton cum Ulph in Burnham Market, the children alongside the small chamber choir at Sutton Church will perform songs about the coming season together with appropriate readings.
The charge is just £5.00 to help us fund the large workshop we have in the summer and there is hot chocolate and cookies on offer before the concert.

The 2025 programme continues on Saturday April 26th 7.30pm with Peter Hewitt, pianist, at St Mary's Church Brancaster. For more information and to book please go to: https://musicintheburnhams.com/

 

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Latest news

New vicar

26 February 2025

We are delighted to announce that Rev Canon Malcolm Rogers was licensed as Priest in Charge of the Burnhams Benefice on Sunday February 9th. 

Malcolm writes, 
It is a huge privilege to have been invited to serve as the new vicar of the Burnham Churches, particularly as I have had a life long association with the area. My parents bought a holiday home in Burnham Market in 1970, my father Alan Rogers served as a lay preacher in the churches, and for a while lived here; and the Burnhams became our permanent home when Alison and myself returned from Moscow, where I had been serving as chaplain from 2017 to June 2023. Although I have been helping out with services, it has taken me a little time to hear God's call to come and serve here, but it does now seem very right. 
I have been a vicar all my working life. I was a curate in Ipswich where Alison and myself met. We were then sent, in 1993, to St Petersburg with the Church Mission Society, tasked with building up mission links with the Russian Orthodox Church. We returned to the UK and I was vicar for 10 years in Islington, and then 12 years at St Mary's Bury St Edmunds (the civic church next to the cathedral), before we went back to Russia. For the last year I was based part time at Lambeth Palace serving as Prior of the Community of St Anselm. We have three boys, two of whom are journalists in London and Andrew, who is local. Alison is a teacher by profession, but currently is developing a colour analysis business and also paints icons. 
The appointment is meant to be part time, which will be quite difficult to work out! My working days will usually be Sunday to Wednesday, but of course there are weddings etc on other days, and it does not mean that people cannot contact me, although you may not get an immediate response.
We owe a great debt to Brenda Stewart, Alison Massey, Andrew Davey and other ministers who have stepped in to support the churches over what has been a long vacancy, and particularly to the wardens and other non-ordained ministers who have done so much to make things run smoothly. 
At the licensing the Bishop likened me to a vintage car, which had quite a bit of mileage on the clock but still ran well! But this is new: I have never done rural ministry and it will be very different, especially having 5 remarkable mediaeval churches. So please pray for me, and I will pray for you. My deep passion is that each of us (lifelong resident, more recent resident, part time resident or visitor) is given the opportunity, as we hear the good news that the Bible teaches, to meet with the living God, and I believe that that encounter sets people free to become who we were created to be. 
I look forward very much to working with our churches, village communities and getting to know you. 

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