He sacrificed his own health for his work, losing his lower right leg to flesh-eating infections picked up on Skid Row, and later having his lower left leg amputated as well.
Union Rescue Mission CEO Andy Bales outside the mission on San Pedro Street in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, Tuesday, August 30, 2016. 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 Skid Row in Downtown Los Angeles, one gets the closest to how he discovered his life’s path.
After almost 20 years of bringing his relentlessly unsecular message to the down and out of L.A., Bales announced last month that he’s returning to his native Des Moines, where he’s taken a job working with impoverished youth. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger is a housing first supporter, but appointed Bales to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, knowing that no one knows the needs of those on the street so well as he does. “Reverend Bales embodies what it means to be a public servant,” Barger said in a statement. “Skid Row is not for the faint of heart — it’s one of the harshest environments I know.
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