The Rev. Andy Bales, chief executive of Union Rescue Mission, said Friday that he will leave the Skid Row organization at the end of the year. Above, Bales and staff at work in October. (Genaro Molina ...

The Rev. Andy Bales and his wife, Bonnie, are heading home to Iowa. After 20 years as head of the Union Rescue Mission on Skid Row, Bales is retiring. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) Twenty-four ...

HARTLEY — Few things slow down Andy Bales. Bales has made a career of working to solve tough human issues, including combating homelessness on Los Angeles' Skid Row, a neighborhood with Los Angeles ...

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LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Andy Bales, the longtime president and CEO of Union Rescue Mission, is headed back home to Iowa after serving the Los Angeles community for nearly two decades. According a URM, ...

Among the many stories Andy Bales has told about himself in his decades of service to the homeless and forlorn, first in Pasadena at Lake Avenue Church and then as head of the Union Rescue Mission on ...

When single women seeking shelter from the perils of Skid Row began to overwhelm the Union Rescue Mission, the Rev. Andy Bales filled the faith-based center's chapel with cots. When Los Angeles County ...

Twenty-four years ago, a minister to the down-and-out of Des Moines took a mid-career leap into the unknown, moving his growing family west to become pastor for poverty outreach at a Pasadena church.