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The
GOORABIAN FAMILY
LIFE CENTER
Welcome to the GOORABIAN FAMILY LIFE
CENTER'S Homepage! Here you'll find information on our
programs from BASKETBALL to ROCK AND ROLL and all points between
How It All
Started...
The Goorabian Family Life Center ("FLC")
was
started as a spark in the minds of several key people. In 1992, after
the notorious L.A. riots, Rev. Roger Minassian began to conceive the
idea of a place where local youth could find safe haven in the
church, without feeling the social stigmas associated with a
“church”. At the same time, Harry and Zabelle Goorabian – great
supporters of the world of athletics and youth programs—were trying to
find a way to invest in the community of Fresno. They dreamed of a
similar place—a place where youth could be involved with team sports
and at the same time receive the love, care, and Biblical teaching of
a church
Reverend Minassian’s sermon particularly touched the Goorabians, and a
meeting soon took place where the three gave the beginnings of life to
the Goorabian Family Life Center.
In early 1994, ground broke on this grand idea, and the building was
completed and dedicated on September 9, 1994.
The Goorabians have since passed on--gone to claim their reward.
Harry Goorabian passed away in 1997 and Zabelle Goorabian just recently, in January 2007. We owe them a
debt of gratitude for their tremendous generosity and foresight.
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