Erica Kirk

One being I want to say something very personal and say thank you to each and every one of you.

I bring my babies to the office nine times out of 10.

And a lot of you have interacted with them and it's very sweet to me and it's very precious to them because then they know you guys by name and they'll come to me and they'll say, did you know that so-and-so gave me a stuffy or something like that?

Thank you.

That

my kids are my world and i love bringing them here because they get to see what their father built and what you guys all continue building um so that that personally means a lot to me i just want to say thank you for that um also i'm going to be doing something kind of like a lunch with your department style thing because

It is on my heart so badly.

I would love to sit down with each and every one of you individually.

I want to know your name, your face, like be able to pray for you guys.

and really just know you.

And so since I can't do individually just yet, because that would be a long day and time and month and year to do that, I'm going to be conjoining it through departments so we can make them very small and intimate, maybe three people at a time and have lunch with you guys just to hear your heart and hear your stories about Charlie.

To be honest with you, that would be amazing.

And your memories with him.

And so that was one thing on my heart, why I wanted to also just bring you guys all together.

I decided to create something called Everyday Heroes Like You, where we're able to, originally, it was focused on bringing funds and awareness to various grassroots organizations that were in specific communities that would be able to have volunteers that are transparent with their funds, that are actually

doing what they're saying they're doing instead of just having 70% of the funds go to admin and only 30% towards the cause.

So really just focusing on making sure there was a home for transparent organizations that people could learn about, get involved with.

But from there,

it kind of grew into something more global.

I was living in China and doing a lot of work with the victims from sex trafficking and then began to phase that into working with the Marine Corps and the Army and then was able to work with an orphanage in Romania.