Ted Mello, Exit 1 Stop Realty
Mello operates a full service brokerage with several office locations yet still manages to devote many hours of his personal time and talents to others in the community.
He has worked on numerous wheel chair ramp building projects through NEFAR's Realtors Ramp It Up! Program and has labored and toiled on home building projects for Habitat for Humanity as well. He is a leader in many Rotary service projects through his local Rotary Club and has participated on skeet shooting events that benefit the Wounded Warrior Project, which provides great service and assistance to our former military members.
He attends Chets Creek Church and is personally involved with many charitable projects and work within his church. Through his church work, he has travelled and worked on church mission trips to other countries. His most recent mission trip was to Honduras where he assisted his team in building a structure that will serve as a church and provide a meeting hall for the members of that Honduran community.
Melllo has spent many hours working with the City Rescue Mission including the project to paint the dining room of City Rescue Mission in downtown Jacksonville.
Randy Brown, Norville Realty
Brown is a native of Jacksonville, and served his country in the U.S. Army with a tour to Vietnam in 1968-1969. After returning home, he graduated from Valdosta State and the University of North Florida with a B.S. degree in Economics.
After graduation, he started his corporate sales career in the grocery industry in cities throughout the Southeast. In 2003, he took retirement as a regional sales manager and became a Realtor. While working in real estate he simultaneously graduated from the Academy of Christian Training in Jacksonville.
His charitable activities include volunteer work with Evangelism Explosion in which he has traveled to some 10 countries around the world since 2002, as an international trainer. He also serves the City Rescue Mission and leads their Sunday morning services each month since 2003.
Brown teaches Celebrate Recovery, a faith based addiction recovery course, along with other courses, at Union Correctional Institute in Raiford. He is involved as a volunteer with Kairos Prison Ministry, which meets twice a year for four days each at UCI Prison. He helps facilitate weekly classes at the local Gamblers Anonymous.
He was ordained into ministry in 2010, and has filled in, mostly voluntarily, for various ministers in churches from North Carolina to South Florida.