CCDA2010-Andy Bales- You Are The Mission Listen 71:45 minutes (65.7 MB)

UYWI 2010,Walking with Families in Crisis: Addressing the Realities of Homelessness, Andy Bales Listen 47:34 minutes (32.67 MB)

Union Rescue Mission works to overcome NIMBYism and provide opportunities for homeless people. This workshop offers a video presentation sharing the ministry’s work and provides strategies on how to be a blessing to homeless friends, identify available tools and use local media in meeting opposition. Listen 73:19 minutes (67.13 MB)

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One of the top three Fundraising professionals in Los Angeles as named by the Association of Fundraising Professionals will lead a discussion of a multifaceted and effective fundraising strategy for your organization. Come and learn how to do the same and share your ideas for fundraising with your peers. Listen 75:35 minutes (69.2 MB)

Experienced leader will share life lessons on communications with board, management of staff, making the most of crisis intervention, dealing with enemies and sin in the camp, utilizing press to accomplish your mission, and we will speak to each other about keeping life, family and ministry in balance. Listen 73:12 minutes (67.01 MB)

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Rev. Andy Bales & Ava Steaffens present at CCDA 2005 on the need for immigration reform. Listen 71:58 minutes (8 MB)

Andy Bales, utilizing over 20 years of experience working alongside the homeless, will share how Union Rescue Mission has worked to overcome NIMBYism and provide opportunites for homeless men, women and children. His work, as it relates to hospitals, law enforcement and other agencies "dumping" homeless people in the Skid Row area, has been featured in national and local news. Andy Bales and Leo Hurtado will share strategies on how to use local media in meeting the opposition. Listen 49:08 minutes (8 MB)

What needs to be done to welcome Latino neighbors into a community and the local church? How do you recognize challenges and seize the opportunity to teach and grow as Christian people? Learn how Lake Avenue Church, a mega-church in Pasadena, handled this and how they have prospered in the process. Listen 72:34 minutes (8 MB)