Jacob Bali moves from the Household Cavalry to ministry

The year was 2014, mid-February. It was a typical working day, going through my morning routine in the stables of Hyde Park Barracks as a soldier in the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment of the British Army. Spring had come early this year, the flowers were already starting to bloom, bumble bees were bumbling along, and the horses had just returned from being out to grass over winter and were being made ready for the start of the busy ceremonial season.

It was an average morning. Everything was normal. Little did I know that the events of this day, so unexpected and unforeseen, would change the course of my life in ways I could never have imagined…

Jacob Bali is Minister of Trinity URC, Wimbledon

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This is an extract from an article published in the September 2024 edition of Reform