Hey Kids of St.A's!
We've been invited to read the poem "In Flanders Fields" during the church service this coming Sunday morning. We'll read as a whole group - hope you can join us. After that we'll head downstairs for Kids Church to do some reflection about peace in our world.
Here's the poem we'll be reading:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from falling hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields
(John McCrae, 1915)