Wedding Bells and Belles

This summer is loaded with weddings in our church community. My wife and I try to make sure at least one of us is at every wedding that takes place from couples in our church. So far we have made it to Trevor and Karen's, Greg and Steph's, and Alex and Julianne's. We won't be able to make it to Brad and Vanessa's this weekend... sorry guys... but we wish them all the Lord's blessings as they begin their married life. I never get tired of weddings. I guess that is the emotional or some would say "soft" side of me, but it is what it is. I feel that each time I witness another couple exchanging their vows, "before God and those assembled", it reinforces the vows I made to the Lord and my wife nearly 16 years ago. I am strengthened and encouraged by seeing one man leave his family and cleave to one woman, becoming one, and reflecting the relationship between Christ and His church. I gain strength and courage from the words spoken both in the ceremony, and in the sermon brought by the minister. I am always moved by the text chosen by the couple being wed, and reflect anew on the passage from Matthew my wife and I chose, about not worrying - but seek first the Kingdom of God. There are a bunch more weddings this summer, and I look forward to each of them. Congratulations to each of you, and thanks for the boost in spirit you have given us all.

GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE...
Strawberry Social & Silent Auction

To All Friends of CDIA (Coram Deo International Assistance) and Randy and Karen Lodder:

On Monday, June 23, CDIA hosted a Strawberry Social and Silent Auction, in support of the ongoing work of Adoration Christian School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This event was an informal evening, giving you the opportunity to connect with the Lodders, enjoy some desserts, and raise some money for CDIA. Though the event has already happened, we would still appreciate you considering a donation to this wonderful cause. Just one more way that you can make a difference in this world.

VISIT CORAM DEO AT: http://www.coram-deo.org/

WOW! Check out the awesome sign that Scott Wallace (Go2Graphics) made and erected for me at my listing in St. Ann's (just south of Smithville). The sign is 4'x8' and looks great... and so does the vacant building lot it is on!

I'm going to put Scott and Brenda's site in my links section of the blog, so that anyone who wants something custom made like this can give them a call. Great job Scott!

Declaration of Independance

The unanimous Declaration of Randy Mulder, Realtor.
When in the Course of a Real Estate career, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the professional bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Realtors are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the pursuit of property listings.
That to secure these rights, Real Estate Brokerages are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the Ontario Real Estate Association, that whenever any Real Estate Team or Alliance becomes non-conducive of these ends, it is the right of the Realtor to alter or resign from it, and to institute a new Team or Alliance, or even, henceforth, to stand alone, laying his foundation on such principles and organizing his powers in such form, as to him shall seem most likely to effect his safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Real Estate Teams long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that Realtors are more disposed to endure, while conditions are endureable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of inequity and limitations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute boundaries, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such membership on a Real Estate Team, and to provide new dreams for their future security.
I, therefore, the Realtor known as Randy Mulder, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by Authority of the good People of RE/MAX, solemnly publish and declare, that I am, and of right ought to be a free and independent Realtor; that I am absolved from all allegiance to the Hendriks Real Estate Team, and that all professional connection between me and the Hendriks Team, is and ought to be totally dissolved, excepting the bond of friendship, which shall endure; and that as a free and independent Realtor, I have full power to list property for sale, conclude transactions, contract both buyers and sellers, establish agency agreements, and to do all other acts and things which independent Realtors may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, I mutually pledge to God my life, my fortune and my sacred honor.

Randall Wayne (Randy) Mulder
Sales Representative
RE/MAX Garden City Realty Inc. Brokerage