Rev. Andy Bales Of The Union Rescue Mission, abales, Dose Of Dr Drew 4, 22, 21
Andy Bales has been raising money to assist his friends devastated by homelessness for the last 34 years. Andy was born to Carl and Joanie Bales In 1958. Both parents grew up and met in Des Moines southeast bottoms, still known as the poor side of town and the wrong side of the tracks. Though Carl had experienced homelessness throughout his childhood, from ages 417, Carl(deceased) and Joanie, present today, dedicated their own lives to God and while Andy was in his moms womb, dedicated Andys life to God. Since the week in the Winter of 1985, when Andy preached a message about the importance of feeding hungry people and never turning your back on a hurting person among us to students in his classroom 6 times on a Friday, only to not practice what he preached when a hungry man asked him for his sandwich while Andy worked a 2nd job on the weekend. Since then, Andy has been haunted by the thought of leaving one precious human being on the streets. He used to look through people digging out of dumpsters
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