At Christ United Methodist Church we want to help you take your next steps with Christ. We seek to create environments where people are connected to one another and to God. We believe that God wants to tell a significant story with each of our lives and we want to help equip and encourage you to tell your story. We are convinced that Jesus is at work in our lives and in the world and we seek to partner with the Holy Spirit's movement around us. Everyone is welcome and everyone is included. We hope you will join us on our journey with Christ!
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Methodist Church
In Flanders Fields
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 failing 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
"In Flanders Fields" was first published in England's "Punch" magazine in December, 1915. Within months, this poem came to symbolize the sacrifices of all who were fighting in the First World War.
