CEO Spends Night On Skid Row | Union Rescue Mission 

I enjoyed volunteering with this organization.

Thank you, Friends. Bless you! Andy B

That ceo has a true heart.. God bless him and watch over him and the people ok skid row

The CEO is so kind and sweet

Mr. Bales....Thank you for taking the time to see for yourself what the homeless community are going through down there. I too wound up on Skid Row for years. Today I am with a home and remaining grateful to the best of my ability. This was a MUST for you to experience this for yourself. May God bless you. Please take the time to read my poem (written in 2001 at the Union Rescue Mission) entitled: "WELCOME TO SKID ROW". Have a good day and continue to care for those who need it the most.

Andy you are such a kind caring person. This world need more people like you!

Thank you!! So kind!! Blessings

dayum it's real out there I been there,done that,and still think of the things that I did out there!!! now am at the union rescue mission,, in the cldp program it's working n my life is changing Lil by Lil,,thanks Andy b,,n god bless you!!!💯💯💯💯😇😇😇😇😇😏😏

He is a very selfless person. He cares alot.🕊️☮️

If only everyone in the world cared this much. Sadly, I fear America is going to get much worse over the next four years than it has ever been for the needy.

The look of Chief Executive, Andy touched my heart. You can see his love projecting. You can actually see the pain he's feeling to see all those wonderful people going through hell.

I am praying for you nonetheless. I know he hears our prayers and has rescued me. He is a God of freedom & choices too. I believe we are the ones who allow this kind of suffering farther than taking action to relieve those suffering. Just what I believe. I respect your beliefs.

God bless you and your mission

I wish those in power had a heart & soul like yours Andy. Despite the overwhelming nature of all that surrounds you .... you keep the flame of hope alive ... God Bless

This was a very eye opening video. He was very brave to stay even one night. And i would be terrified just to drive down those streets in a car. My heart breaks for those who have nowhere to lay their heads at night. 🙏😥💔

Andy Bales - Great Man!

Praying for this CEO's heart and mind. Proverbs 4:23

God Bless you all from Sunny Monaco. But home is the USA. Breaks my heart the states are having so many issues with homelessness. Gods crying for his children.

This CEO is very giving of his heart and time. He is interacting with every citizen . Honestly, the people interviewed seemed like regular citizens. The people were friendly, articulate and genuine. They need assistance.

My heart goes out to all of the homeless people, thank God.

This is soooo sad. Thankyou Andy. Awareness is the first step to change.

You’re a good man ❤️❤️ you are doing all this to help these people. We need more of YOU. I know everyone say we need more people like this. But we do and I would love to be one of them 💕

I'm so glad for people like you that help the homeless. Too many people judge them and talk bad about them and won't help them

One of the hardest places on Earth. Andy, thank you for all you are doing out there. Hope we can talk soon. 🙏🏼💗

Your way of showing you care for the most venerable, and actually stated it AND expressed a look of despair and desperation caused me to shed a few tears while feeling and a deep sense of sadness and loneliness.

All those rich Hollywood California peeps why don't they help this organization.....all that money and this....

I tried to impress on my sons one basic idea. That people can be smart or stupid, weak or strong, young or old, beautiful or ugly, skilled or unskilled, educated or uneducated. But I said that there really are only two types of people in the world. People with money, and people without. This society and many countries value money. It is the means to all ends. I also impressed on m sons to get an education in the area that they really like a lot. I don't expect them to love it passionately. But I want them to really like what they study in hope that they will then like doing it for a living. It helps to like your life. It helps to explain to children that they may be doing something for a long time until they can afford to stop working. And it really helps to really enjoy the work. I feel we do our children a disservice (naively) if they pursue an education simply to make a lot of money. I did explain that money is a tool like a wrench or a hammer. You need it to get something else, done or bought. But I never said they need X or Y dollars by such and such an age. Money can't be the goal. Nor can "Happiness". Too cynical in the first case, and too frivolous in the latter case. I asked my one son how he would fix homelessness. He couldn't answer. But I have an example. You see, their mother came here to America from Eastern Europe and all of her family there is very poor. So for various reasons, some quite selfish on my behalf too, I bought a small older villa near her hometown with a quarter acre of land. It cost about as much as a midsize care. So no, I am not wealthy. But I felt when I had got to a point where I did not need to worry this year about money, that I was o.k. enough to extend the benefit of my luck and work and savings, and yes inheritance too. And her sister lives there now. And she covers all the expenses. And she works the land and has a small shop in town. And it is a continuation of the traditional life of living off the land that the Eastern European People came from, living in small villages, agricultural life. So my money is doing more than buying me a Summer place to hang out and ride my mountain bike around the dusty trails of the villa zone of the town of Sliven, BG. And even though my wife and I are now not married anymore. I feel that I still have some kind of tie to them there and the place, tenuous though it may be.

I stayed out last New Year’s Eve and Will again this, just didn’t make a video.

The CEO is a GOOD man

I thought NYC was bad, LA is 20 times worse..this man is a god sent angle,he has a real heart and he reallly cares for people,I believe he got sick from doing this..god bless this man...please

God help them all🙏

Thank God for the CEO and people like him who actually try to help these people. I have been homeless in my lifetime but never to this level and my heart breaks for them ❤

This man has a good heart it shines through.

So nice that the CEO isn't another hypocrite, good on him

God bless all of them

MR. ANDY BALES WERE YOU AT ONE TIME WITH BETHEL MISSIONS IN DES MOINES, IOWA???? IF SO THATS AWESOME CAUSE MY HUSBAND AND I ARE WITH THEM AS VOLLENTEERS. GOD BLESS YOU.♡♡♡♡

They're not all bad people, they're just down on their luck.

Wow Andy just stayed out on the street again on New Years Eve he is such an amazing soul

Agreed. Thank you, Duane.

What the gentleman said at the end of this video was spot-on.

God bless you i love washing you. I live out their. Im so Grateful. For the Lord💕💕💕💕💕💕😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇

God bless you leaps and bounds Mr bales.

I love Andy bales

My visit to Skid Row was awful. The line for the water slides was too long, the ice-cold mai tais were a little too sweet, and the massage envy closed an hour early on Saturday.

It is both sad and ironic that, when you see the thumbnail for this very important message, it only has a hundred or so views. Compare that to the massive numbers of views that meaningless narcissistic videos garner in a matter of hours.

Andrew bales hope gardens discipleship program I hear his show every night good man he is does what he can

dam, iam a videographer, id sure love to shoot some videos like this or even do a full documentary

i want to share this video to my friend

Tiny houses.... A shack isn't that hard to build. People need a sense of pride..an address..a home...shelters are temporary. People need the stability 4 walls..a roof ..and a door that locks!!! We need land! How is it that I'm an American Indian but I don't have land?? Think about it. We need to show some real love and compassion...

I would like to work with this organization I know this will be more than just a paycheck for me.

Realtors are to blame for homelessness. They should not be able to sell homes to investors instead of homebuyers and should not be able to set rents or home values. They should have to have degrees with ethics laws.

The side of Los Angeles that they don't show on TV and this place is less than 10 minutes away from the Staples Center

Bravo guys!

Nice to see someone wear the shoes of these hurt people..

Your heaven sent , ..

This man lost his leg walking the streets helping the homeless

It was my saddest day in my life when I visit Skid Row..

He was probably thinking “I’m in the ghetto, ratatata, ratatata”

Ceo come just werfied those people do not look skinny. Which .means they are not deadly starving. Which means he has approved the Sistem work just how they wanted

as i always says : we can talk about what we've lived......

Im about to end up on skid row. Id rather be in the warm weather than the snow. Mental illness is a huge struggle for me.

CEO from older generation, where you got to the top with your integrity intact. Compared to today, where having a sociopathic personality disorder gets you there.

truely a shame, I only see this problem getting worse and headed our way - we are better served insulating ourselves from it these people should be fixed - society is dying

I could not be homeless sleeping out there with rats,strangers and who knows whatelse?That's why I take my ass to work I don't want to but im going to.

Concur with what is said @ 4:44. This comes to mind; It is appointed for men once to die and after this the judgment. Judgement? You ask....What judgement? Yes, my friend, judgement. Judgement is where you stand alone and answer to Him who'll inquire of you as to how you conducted yourself in this evanescence.

solution: give them all cars or vans. it's shelter. There is a large community of people doing this voluntarily.... and liking it. See youtube channel CheapRVLiving for details. They don't need overnight heat in LA.... just a sleeping bag or a couple of blankets. TaDa!

Rather tramatic - Hell, on Earth ! Couldn't emphasise, any better !

Yet Amazon doesn't have to pay 1$ in taxes... 😑😢

Heartbreaking , so hard to watch ,

Miss Sean Baird....died homeless in Malibu beach

What is the state of California doing to help? Or to fix this massive issue?

All the millionaires in L.A alone, why cant they donate some geez they be able to earn it back in a day. If i was a millionaire I'd being putting a stop to this ......

You will never know how it is to be a homeless until you realy are a homeless. This guy try to understand how it is.. and that's a good thing.. but he will never understand for real how it it.. untill he becomes a homeless.. and see the real life as a homeless person.. No friends, familly, shelter, money, beeing hungry, strugle to produce enough to get at least something to eat..Life is all about 3 things really. Food, shelter and security...and that's it. any person that have those 3 things can live anywhere on this planet. What every person try to build around him in his life? It will want to secure himself by having those 3 things i said.. and kinda that's it.. for a person to live.. the other things are just a surpluss and nothing else... When people have nothing they will really understand what he really need to live.

As Wealthy as America IS, are u Kidding Me?? Woww

Offer them a job picking up trash for Min wage and see how many accept.

Where's the 2019 videos at this video waz bk in 2012

She been out 27 years

Fuck, Frank broke my heart, I hope he got some help

My man making over 150k per year as the CEO of a non profit and going out one night to experience what it feels to be homeless and he comes out looking like he's from some Miami Vice or Magnum PI or something. He looks like his pockets are full of money wearing that leather jacket and dressed fully in high end clothing. The sad thing is I read that he can no longer walk properly because walking up and down the skid row areas a few times while handing out water and stuff like that he had some kind of blister on his feet from some marathon that he ran and that blister got infected from the crap on the streets of skid row. I guess he went home and walked inside his home with those same shoes and then after taking his shoes off he called on that same contaminated areas in his home and he caught 3 different types of bacterial infections. Staph, EColi, and some other thing and he's in a wheel chair now and they might be cutting his legs off soon. Crazy shit that in this video he is walking but now after a few years these save walks down skid row is what led to him catching the bacterial infections and kissing his ability to walk and possibly losing both his legs.

One night two nights 3 nights or One week two weeks 3 weeks isn't really going to not just show a person because a person must feel the pain the sorry the tears the monster that is inside ones self that is keeping them for who they really are.

The problem is that the rich people don't care about the poor, they buy 45 million dollars homes, but won't help the poor.

He lost both his legs to why is he out there?anywaya telling his urm staff not let him lose sight of them

But if these people went to a place like Beverly Hills, the cops would be called in seconds and they would be forced too move..

Mayweather could easily get at least 300 of them home off the street with all his no at but people like him in the 1 percent that don't give a shit besides them selves

😭😭.. so shocking that in an uber rich country there are sooooo many destitute homeless people[s] trying to get by on the streets. Same here in the UK ... as an also uber rich country we pay the EU £350million "a week" ffs!!!!!!!!!!!! yet we have child poverty, thousands having to use food banks just to get through the week, a lot are working for low wages, zero hours contracts-this means if there is work in a business people are only called in if there is work for them on a given day, staff shortages in our supermarkets yet owners live in £million + housing raking in fat profits, and thousands also on the streets through a severe shortage of housing, and what housing we do have so many are unaffordable .....

I lived on skid row n tried to get in the mission n was denied access....

For everybody who need help and still need the mercy of God for time and eternity both; Turn your way to God for more help guys. Stop addiction if you have one. Never do prostitution, do never abortion, it is murder. Read the Holy Bible for answers and consolatian, the New Testament in it for the Gospel. Go to church, ask there for shelter included some work for money. Pray God for forgiveniss of your sins through the powerful work of His Son Jesus Christ. Amen. Pray and work! Best to you all.

Andy needs to work the front desk cause they turn ppl away daily

Every minute probably less a homeless person dies on the street and their discarded like they were trash.

They looks scared

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Wonder what he earns in a year?

Plenty of money for the war on terra but not for the homeless...😡

I think some of them are afraid to get out of whats normal to them, maybe the thought of being in a comfortable position is scary.

Didn’t jayz n bey just buy new crib round the corner for $88m

For everybody who needs help ; Turn your way to God for help. He will help you if you are honest to Him. Stop addiction if you have one. Read the Holy Bible for answers and consolatian. Do never prostitution, or stop it now. Do never abortion, it is murder. Pray God for forgiveniss of your sins through the powerful work of His Son Jesus Christ. Amen If you have God, you have everything for time and eternity both. Best to you all. 🙏

Mike Matthew's you don't know the truth about these homeless people. You sit in comfort and read but you don't know their story. Everybody isn't a drug addict nor lazy nor an alcoholic. I know... because I know some of them. I have rescued a few.. directed them to get help. God showed me favor to help them. Mike Matthew you have not enough compassion for others.. nor life experience. Do yourself a favor.. just watch. Learn to be quiet and you won't be pointed out as a heartless unlearned man.

wrap up and get fema camp ready. it is not getting better, take action now

Amerikkka has failed

I'd get them to clean the trash up... I'd coat the place with fart spray if they didn't clean it uo