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[vc_row el_class=”py-0″][vc_column][vc_column_text]When Covid-19 swept through the UK in early 2020, St Peter\u2019s was forced, like churches all over England, to close.<\/p>\n

However, that didn\u2019t mean that it lost touch with its congregation and the wider community. Services went online, reaching a wider geographic group of people, the church building became a food distribution centre and connections with the most disadvantaged in our city deepened.[\/vc_column_text]

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