{"id":7921,"date":"2021-03-08T15:22:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T15:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=7921"},"modified":"2021-03-08T15:25:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T15:25:20","slug":"church-heeds-call-of-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/church-heeds-call-of-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve heeds call of duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>As a former nurse, Pastor Steve Derbyshire didn't need to think twice when he agreed to use his giant church in London's east end to support the capital\u2019s Covid vaccination rollout.<br \/>\nThe building \u2013 City Gates \u2013 is at the centre of Ilford's multi-cultural society on the outskirts of east London. It is a place where members of various faith groups are more than comfortable mixing with one another.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When I was approached by the NHS, I was more than happy to respond positively,\u2019 said Steve, who was part of the team giving out jabs. \u2018It was great to be involved and the whole thing was such a success we will be repeating it in a couple of weeks time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018There's been a huge amount of discussion about the rights and wrongs of the vaccine programme but we are there for everybody, whatever their views.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I saw it as the right thing to do and for those who didn't want to be involved it's their decision and it's to be respected. There were people who requested prayer before receiving their j...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a former nurse, Pastor Steve Derbyshire didn&#8217;t need to think twice when he agreed to use his giant church in London&#8217;s east end to support the capital\u2019s Covid vaccination rollout. The building \u2013 City Gates \u2013 is at the centre of Ilford&#8217;s multi-cultural society on the outskirts of east London. It is a place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portfolio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7926,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions\/7926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}