Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Andy Bale, the director of Skid Row's Union Mission in Los Angeles, has never seen this before: In just the last few weeks, he has admitted a half-dozen two-parent families, many of who have lost ...

Andy Bales, chief executive of the Union Rescue Mission at San Pedro and Fifth streets, got the call around 4 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 2, about a fire in the homeless shelter's second-floor cashier's ...

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 ...

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.