Ministry - Missions, Jails, Mining Camps

As a teen A.E. Mitchell moved from Elora, Canada to Detroit to seek work to support his mother and siblings after their father Robert passed away. Andrew lived in the Tracy McGregor men’s homeless shelter where he taught Sunday School, and when he moved to Denver for his health he lived at the YMCA for a time and also taught at the YMCA boys camp. He always had a heart for men who were in need, and built apartments at the family compound in Echo Park to house out of work men…possibly built during the Depression.

You can see the little doorways to the apartments at the end on the right of the Mitchell family home in Los Angeles. There is also a large apartment building in the back of the home.

Andrew traveled by train to Cripple Creek, CO to minister to the mining camp workers in the early 1900s.

Andrew and Jennie ministered in missions and jails in Los Angeles, and there are newspaper ads showing Andrew started preaching in the LA Missions in the teens upon moving to Los Angeles. The notices below are from 1915-1930s regarding their ministry in missions and the city jail.

Los Angeles County Jail in the 1920s