Community
Part of the mission of this Firm is to seek the flourishing of our Orlando community. We believe that our community can only flourish to the extent its downtrodden and disadvantaged are cared for and lifted up. For that reason, we have targeted a few local charities dedicated to bringing hope, happiness and healing to those in need.
We want you to join this mission with us! A portion of your investment in our legal services will be donated to one of the organizations below. If you would like to select an organization or chat more please get in touch. We would love to hear from you and learn more about your passions and how we can help you in the pursuit of your mission.
New Hope For Kids
New Hope for Kids is an organization which provides grief support for children and families dealing with the death of a loved one. Further, their Wishes for Kids program seeks to improve the quality of life for children with life threatening illnesses by providing them with one very important wish - giving them hope for the future and strength to go on striving. New Hope for Kids helps children in need face challenges during some of the most vulnerable times of their lives and also strengthens our Central Florida community by helping heal the emotional trauma that results from illness and death.
BASE Camp Children’s Cancer Foundation
BASE Camp provides a year-round base of support for children and families who are facing the challenge of living with cancer and other life-threatening hematological illnesses. Base Camp serves not only the children who are patients, but their brothers and sisters too. Through innovative programs, Base Camp brings children and families together during the most difficult seasons of their lives by providing a host of joy-giving services, including hospital meals, milestone parties, food baskets, parent support groups, overnight camps, and 2nd wishes.
Howard Phillips Center for Children and Families
The Central Florida area is a vibrant, thriving set of communities. But children and families in our neighborhoods still face challenges such as abuse, sexual trauma, developmental disabilities and lack of access to medical care. The Howard Phillips Center helps combat these obstacles by delivering children and family services to support and advocate for those at risk. The Howard Phillips Center is comprised of a variety of programs to accomplish this mission. Each program is geared towards a different but equally critical goal, some of which include: the safeguarding of children from abuse and neglect, the support of positive child development and growth, the healing and protection of victims of child abuse, the delivery of healthcare at local high school for uninsured and underinsured teens, serving children and families of child sexual abuse.
arnoldpalmerhospital.com/facilities/the-howard-phillips-center-for-children-and-families
Taking Back November
On November 9th, 2004, this Firm’s founding father, Gregory D. Lerch, went home to be with the Lord after suffering complications from a highly invasive surgery to remove a cancerous tumor.
As one can imagine, November has historically been a challenging month for this Firm and its family. For this Firm’s president, Chris Lerch, it forced him to wrestle with some hard questions: how do we handle loss? How do we respond to suffering?
In wrestling with these hard questions, Chris has been comforted by the concept of redemptive suffering. Redemptive suffering is taking our losses and our heartaches, and using them to help others going through similar hurts. Abraham Lincoln captured this well when he said: “To ease another’s heartache, is to forget one’s own”.
In the spirit of that, Chris founded Taking Back November, an annual fundraiser/event organized for the purpose of redeeming life's toughest hurts and losses by using them to help others with similarly situated needs. It’s mission is to help all of us find meaning, hope, and purpose in our losses.
For Chris, the month of November marks the toughest loss of his life (losing his father). However, Taking Back November has transformed that loss into something beautiful for children who are hurting and in need.
Though Taking Back November started as something centered around Chris and his family’s darkest hour, the hope and vision is that it will expand into something redemptive for our whole community - that each November we can all make an effort to take back our losses by using whatever events that have occurred in our lives to help others . . . and in doing so find something beautiful and redemptive.
So, each November please consider the following: Maybe the thing that’s hurt you the most in your life, could become your greatest tool in helping someone else.
If you’d like to be a part of this event or learn more about it, please feel free to connect. We’d love to help you take back your losses!
2 Corinthians 1:4
“There are some needs only you can see, there are some hands only you can hold, there are some people only you can reach.”