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Jimmie Hale Mission Names New Leader
The Jimmie Hale Mission has named a new executive director, replacing longtime leader Tony Cooper.
BIRMINGHAM, AL — One of Birmingham's oldest faith-based homeless ministries has named a news leader. The Jimmie Hale Mission, founded in 1944, named Michael Coleman executive director, replacing Tony Cooper.
Cooper, who served as executive director for 29 years, will still serve the nonprofit as executive director emeritus through the end of January, according to a Birmingham Business Journal report.
The Jimmie Hale Mission said in a release that Coleman, a Greenville native, previously was a communications officer in the United States Army for 21 years before retiring from service in 2005. He was later the lead pastor at a church in Fort Deposit and director of benevolence for Compassion 21 in Montgomery before founding HIM.
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The Jimmie Hale Mission includes a homeless shelter for men, a shelter for women and children, after-school Bible clubs, recovery programs and three learning centers.
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