Center for Champions

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The Center for Champions of PA, incorporated as a 501c3 non-profit organization in 1998, was co-founded by Denise Wendle and Bonnie Lonski to address the many needs of the Harrisburg inner-city community. We originally started with the low income project housing areas that are located near our original location at 941 S. 13th St. We first met in the Life Center Ministries International Church building. Life Center and another local church, Christ Community Church of Camp Hill, were instrumental in our start. However, we are not a church or a program of any one church. We are a nonprofit faith-based organization. We desire to be an avenue where many churches and groups can partner with us to reach out to the hurting in the city. God showed us that there was a need for a more consistent approach to helping inner city families than the once a week Sunday School approach or Vacation Bible School. We first visited a motivational speaker, minister and former pro-basketball player named Wayne Robinson, who had a youth after-school program in North Carolina. He gave us encouragement and allowed us to use a name similar to his program: Center for Champions. Ours is officially Center for Champions of PA. We are not franchised. However, Wayne Robinson is on our Advisory Board. We started with an after school program for children in elementary school. We met twice a week and had began with about 17 kids. We had experienced God's love and we wanted a practical way of giving it away.

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