Reverend Machtemes | sojministries

Reverend Machtemes is a Construction Worker by trade and a Furniture making master when it comes to his woodworking skill .

He has been blessed with 2 daughters, 4 step-daughters and a son, and, he is a Proud Grandfather to 5 precious grandchildren so far!

Reverend Joseph Machtemes

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Reverend, Joseph T. Machtemes was born July 12th, 1966, in Blue Island, Illinois. He grew up with an elder sister, a younger sister and his brother, the youngest of the four. His family lived in the south-east suberbs of Chicago until the late summer of 1971, he was 5 years old.

His father bought a bakery in Lowell, Indiana earlier that year and it was decided that the family should move to Indiana where the bakery was located. After living in Lowell for a year, the family found a house in Fair Oaks, Indiana, about 15 miles south-east of where the bakery was located.

The house they found was the original "main-house" of the large dairy farm it sat on. By road, the farm's current main house was nearly a mile away. If one cut through the corn-fields, it was about 1/3 of a mile. The home he moved into was set north off the road by nearly 1/4 mile with the driveway being cut through a corn-field which stretched westward.

The old farm-house sat on a slight hill at the edge of a forest. The forest stretched to the north wrapping around to the east side of the homestead. It had always been his father's dream to raise livestock and to garden, this was the perfect setting. The family had lived there for nearly a year when economic hardship's forced his father to close the bakery's doors

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"For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."

Albert Einstein,-
"My First Impression of the USA," 1921

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Reverend Machtemes studied the KJV of the Holy Bible Exclusively under the Pentecostal elders 5 days a week for 9 solid years of his life, not counting his Double worship services or the additional Wednesday 3 hour bible study fellowship.

Short-after having Mastered the verses to their satisfaction, he went on to enter a Private Nazarene School where he studied 5 days per week for a year until satisfying their educators.

Reverend Machtemes found an internal passion when it came to the studies of the un-canonized texts, particularly "The Lost Books" of the Bible and the Apocrypha as well as what's known as psudiocophica.

From this point forward, Joe was taught the importance of mother earth and nature. Joe was taught to hunt food by the age of 6, venison and various game birds, as well as how to farm and tend to livestock, tend to food gardens, to gather fruits and berries, even to churn his own butter, make jams and jellies and how to can and preserve foods of all sorts. .

He and his family raised chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, goats, hogs and a lamb, all as sources of food, including all the eggs as well... everything short of cow, which they didn't need to, given they were living on a dairy farm. They also had a huge garden where they grew all of the vegetables& herbs and berries you could ever dream of having.

They had an abundance of raspberries, blackberries, goose berries, Grapes/grapevines, Kale, rhubarb, strawberries, several varieties of nut trees as well as ..apple trees, mulberry trees, peach, apricot, pear.. all which fruited abundantly, which reinforced to Joe the Importance of the Gifts given us by the land.

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