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What's on in Your Parish Seer Green & Jordans MAGAZINE April 2021 Tributes to Cassa Film Reviews from Jordans Picture House A day in the life of a Parish Clerk Easter Egg Hunt SpringFest m m m f 2 v 2 l ml 1 Parish Magazine v one pound f 2 From the Editors Our April magazine is filled with bright popping up as a volunteer in Jordans Spring Events and articles from both shop, at the School Fair or at the villages which we hope that you will Picture House - Cassa embodying enjoy. We also have a goodbye from the church warm and welcoming in Safely & Cassa Messervy, our vicar. We wish the community. The church will be her and the whole Messervy family well led while we look for someone well in their new parish. There are to replace her and we hope that you tributes to Cassa in the magazine, will be able to join us in the church Securely but perhaps the most touching very soon. tributes have been from people who Carol Wright, Sue Puttergill, do not come to church who found her and Phil Moody Next Month's Magazine Please send all contributions for the May issue to: [email protected] by 7 April. Diary dates for the next two or three months would be very welcome. Articles should be 300 words max and photos should be jpeg format, Health and safety is our number one priority and preferable 300 dpi. you can rest assured we are doing all we can to Please note any items submitted may be edited for space, content protect the welfare of our staff and customers, or style. so you can trust our team to sell or let your Are you a subscriber? home safely and securely. You can buy an annual subscription to this magazine for only £10 a year (for 10 issues) and it will be delivered free of charge to your door. If you are considering putting your property on the market, Please email: [email protected] with your name, address and call us now and speak to our expert team. phone number and one of our distributors will contact you. Sales 01494 680018 Contents Lettings 01494 685518 6 Tributes to Cassa 19 News from Seer Green School Visit our website for an 13 Easter Egg Hunt 20 JPH film reviews INSTANT ONLINE VALUATION 14 Springfest 24 Tweet of the Month www.ashingtonpage.co.uk 17 A day in the life of a Parish Clerk 2 Parish Magazine Parish Magazine 3 Church and Community Organisations Thought for the Month Vicar Jordans Village Hall Office 10.00 - 1.00 I hate goodbyes, do you? I think this is something Cassa Messervy 01494 672496 Chris Jenkins | Booking Secretary 01494 875177 many of us struggle with, which is why we have Licensed Lay Minister and Prayer Group Jordans Village Lunch Club developed special goodbye celebrations and rituals Linda West Catherine Robinson 01494 873193 that provide a structure to help us through these Churchwarden and General Enquiries Jordans Village Nursery School transitions. Of course, one of the hardest aspects Jane Spoerry 01494 677328 Julie Leonard 01494 875603 of the pandemic has been the inability to say proper Janine Dunnell 07525 322955 Jordans Meals On Wheels goodbyes, from moving house and leaving jobs to Parochial Church Council Eli Merchant 01494 873471 attending funerals. All these endings have lacked Audrey Hardy | Treasurer 01494 672592 the special meals, gifts, speeches and hugs which Jordans Picture House Church Flower Guild Alan Sealy/Box Office 01494 873205 make them bearable. We have found creative ways Pam Britton 01494 678466 around these difficulties (thank God for Zoom!), but Jubilee Hall Magazine Distributors David Howkins 01494 857760 I think there will also be many postponed farewells Alison Davies 01494 671421 where we can be together and mark an ending Carol Campbell 01494 677330 Jordans Quaker Meeting House and Centre properly. Alex Wildwood 01494 876594 Children’s & Family Leader and SGKIDS Of course, as the saying goes: ‘in every ending Janna Holder | Family leader 07764 490960 Seer Green Allotments Barry Richardson / Chairman 01494 673407 there is a new beginning’. The new beginning is Scouts | Explorers | Cubs | Beavers such an important part of the story that we mustn’t [email protected] Seer Green Baptist Church Andrew McCausland | Minister 01494 677266 lose sight of it, particularly with the pain of parting Seer Green Brownies and 1st Seer Green and anxiety about the way ahead. This will be Rainbows Seer Green Bridge Club my seventh Easter in the parish. It is, I think, an Carole Wharrier 07977 423555 Irene Machin | Secretary 01494 676321 appropriate point to be ending my time with you, Eight O’clock Club Seer Green Church of England School as the great narrative of the Easter story reminds Sandra Park | Head Teacher 01494 676344 Monica Sado 01494 677851 us of the ending of Good Friday and the ultimate Girl Guides Seer Green Gardeners new beginning of Jesus’ new life on Easter Sunday Brenda Orr | District Commissioner 01753 887209 Jane Smith 07759 841205 and the hope that gives us. Jordans and District Rotary Club Seer Green Lunch Club Unfortunately, due to the ongoing restrictions, Naomi Arnold | Secretary 01753 663305 Gill Roberts 01494 677281 I will not be able to say a proper goodbye to you Jordans Horticultural Society Seer Green Parish Council all. We hope to be able to come back this summer Liz Bates | Parish Clerk 01494 874233 Emma Pegram 01494 874574 for a bit of a ‘knees up’. I have written a thank Shan Liu 01494 730312 Seer Green Pre school Faith Key 01494 870039 you in the Church news section, so here I would Kirsten Pole | Manager 01494 730060 like to leave you with a blessing: ‘May the God of Jordans School Seer Green Montessori School love bless you and keep you; may he make His Hannah Bancroft | Head Teacher 01494 874217 Libby Wilson | Director 01494 672209 face shine upon you, and give you peace, this day Jordans Music Club Seer Green Village Choirs and always. Amen.’ Marion Pell | Chairman 01494 872875 Jane Smith 07759 841205 Cassa Messervy - Vicar 4 Parish Magazine Parish Magazine 5 Church Events | News A fond farewell to Cassa Christ-like, contemplative, com- Cassa arrived at a time of change as Tribute to Cassa passionate and courageous in the the benefice was introduced; she and It has been a great privilege for me service of God is what the Diocese Rector Ian Brown handled this with to hold this position since 2014, and I seeks – Cassa has certainly been delicacy. She leaves at a time of even leave with some very good memories that and so much more, during her greater change, with the pandemic indeed of my time here with you all. seven years as our vicar. forcing us into live-streamed on-line services and Zoom meetings. Cassa She shows great love, care and There will be a time of vacancy until has been amazing in keeping up understanding for all of us, whatever my successor as Rector, and indeed with the Government’s changes and our age, and we all love her. A teacher Cassa’s successor as Minister in adapting our church life to cope with by background, she has taught us Seer Green, can be found. This is them. Through all of it, she has gone lots - not just about the Bible, but due partly to the Church of England’s out of her way to keep in touch with how to live like Christ, encouraging wheels turning rather slowly, but also and care for us all and her family, and us to take active parts in church life because ministerial roles come with continued as school-governor and and share our faith with others in very a move into the community, into a Assistant Area Dean. house, and into a community role. practical ways. She plans worship thoroughly, ensuring we are all How has Cassa achieved so much? I would like to pay tribute to Rev During the time of vacancy, there is catered for, and marks the church’s Her favourite Psalm (121.2) says: Cassa as she prepares to leave a good church team in place in Seer seasons in imaginative ways. She ‘My help cometh from the Lord’ and us here in April. Cassa has been a Green, backed up by clergy and lay is much sought after for personal as she goes on in that strength, she wonderful friend and colleague to me people in Chalfont St Giles who will services which she takes with such will wish us prayerfully to do so too. and to many these past few years. more than keep the wheels turning sensitivity. here until your new Minister arrives. Thank you, Cassa. We will miss you, It is coincidental that I, too, am Until that time, my prayers and my A great leader and colleague, Cassa Myles, the girls and the dogs terribly, leaving my post in May this year. This best wishes to you all. consults fully and then trusts people and pray God will be with you all as has nothing to do with Cassa leaving, to get on with the job; ensuring you move to Wychert Vale. Our loss nor with the covid crisis, hard as Rev Ian Brown - Rector Chalfont St our milestones are celebrated by is their gain. this has been on us all. I have been Giles with Seer Green and Jordans everyone. Rector here for seven years and a Linda West minister in the Church of England for nearly forty years, so it is high time Contact us for me to retire.