At the age of 80, as of January 3 of 2009, I, Floyd Warner Reeves, am the founder and pastor of Faith Harvest Israel, the ministry I have conducted over the past thirty-four years in the name of Yehovaw, the holy, almighty, eternal and self-existent Creator and Lord God over all the universe - a service I perform lovingly and gratefully in response to His magnificent love and everlasting kindness to us, His children!

Born in 1929, I was raised in the home of my German and Yankee father, a Methodist minister, and my French and English mother, his supportive wife and a teacher in the public schools!

As a teenager, I quickly turned, in my father's church, to the teaching of bible studies for young people my own age and eventually did the same in other churches, while my father served as a chaplain in the Air Force during World War II!

Yearning to find answers to questions that I felt were raised by Yehovaw's Holy Bible, I went first to my father and his associates in ministry; but receiving small satisfaction from these church elders, I went to the wrong sources; and, leaving home at the tender age of 16 under the wayward wing of my youngest paternal uncle, I found myself wandering as a philosophical vagabond for thirty years, learning about and doing every thing that Yehovaw is not, until by His loving mercy and the prayers of elders in my family and community, He returned me, His confused and sinful son, to my family, to His church and to intensive studies in His book, the Holy Bible, under the sound guidance of church elders and of ha Kodesh Ruakh, Yehovaw's Holy Spirit!

On February 7 of 1975, at the age of 46, I was restored, to my place in Yehovaw's kingdom, through the ministry of Brant Baker's Shekinah Fellowship, in Long Beach, in Southern California!

Brant Baker was an astounding healing minister, at that time, which got my attention by his healing my back of severe pain and my heart of severe sin in the name of "Jesus Christ", the English translation of the Hebrew "Yehoshua ha Mawshiyakh"!

Yehovaw then led me into several church fellowships, to give me some idea of what was happening in His church since I left it at the age of 16! You might say that was an internship of sorts in preparation for the ministry into which Yehovaw would eventually lead me: for each fellowship to which He sent me soon absorbed me into its programs! And, being a zealous convert, I got very busy for several years, still encountering a lot of what Yehovaw is not!

I well appreciated the "faith teachings" of various Christian ministers, even attempting to start a bookstore in that cause, which effort was soon aborted by the forces of evil that Satan quickly mounted up against me, by the ignorance of Yehovaw's holy scriptures that I was still suffering at that time!

But I moved on, into an understanding of Yehovaw's book, the Holy Bible, that recognizes His toraw or law and its "weightier matters" of "judgment, mercy and faith"! (Matthew 23:23) Only from that sound biblical perspective could I find complete rest in Yehovaw's eternal redemption and law-based lordship over the children of Israel, the only truly commanded people He ever mentioned in His entire book!

I learned that over the millennia Yehoshua ha "Mawshiyakh" (Strong: Hebrew: 4899), Jesus the "Messiah" (Daniel 9:25) or Jesus "the Christ" (Matthew 16:20) spoke Yehovaw's word, covenant, law and commandments, by which Yehovaw gloriously saves and blesses to the uttermost! And that truth became my daily and overwhelming joy, superceded only in my even greater joy in sharing that truth with others, that they, too, might know the unutterable ecstasy of walking even on Earth in the glory of Yehovaw's eternal kingdom of life, blessing, liberty, joy and power!

On June 9 of 1952, I married Rosetta, an Italian factory worker; and, having suffered many ups and downs and comings and goings in our troubled marriage, I found it to have been one largely of accommodation, like so many marriages in the world! And, when I made my commitment to Yehovaw in 1975, I found Rosetta not joining with me in that commitment; and over the years since then, Yehovaw's words concerning the difficulties attending children when some believe and follow Him, while others do not, have come forcibly to pass!

For several years Rosetta and I lived separately! But, recently, her suffering a stroke required my assistance, which I gladly gave! And the result of that daily attendance to her needs has resulted in a beautiful bonding between us in the Spirit of Yehovaw's love!

Yehovaw wrote through Solomon that He has no problem turning the heart of a king; and, to my great joy, I have found that awesome power working on queens, as well!

Rosetta and I are the parents of three wonderful and precious sons, each of them as different as night is from day - Pietro, Andrew and William - no one of whom, to my knowledge are practicing Israelites! I would very much love to be wrong! Each of them has a good heart and means well; but each in his own way has fallen into Satan's temptation to take for granted his father's teaching of Yehovaw's toraw or law!

Pete presumes to judge God as a poor parent over His children! Andrew likes to believe that he follows Yehovaw's toraw or law; but he has personal problems that do not reflect that belief. William is passionate in his belief that he is serving the Lord; but the apostolic teachings he is following are contrary to Yehovaw's toraw; so his walk is not the blessed experience that it could be.

I take full responsibility for that frustration of my heart's desire for my sons, in my having shown contempt for Yehovaw for the first thirty years of my adult life, during which nightmare Satan had Yehovaw's permission to curse the fruit of my body!

But I have now served Yehovaw for an additional thirty-four years, under the cloud of His judgment against me for that contempt toward Him on my part; and, having suffered that rightful punishment for the same period and have now gone four years past it, I am now seeing some amazing improvements in our family's circumstances, giving every indication that His deliverance and salvation of the family as an whole is not far away!

At least that is my hope and prayer! And I pray Yehovaw's richest blessing upon any among you, my beloved visitors, who will agree with me in that prayer for my family, fellowship and ministry and give Satan a resounding reason to self-destruct, which he is famous for causing his victims to do!

Rosetta's and my sons are presently middle-aged! All three have been married! But only Pete's marriage to Luz is still weathering the storm that Satan keeps mounting up against any one's marriage.

Pete is a professional in the security and administrative fields, working for an industrial client; and he has been chosen to serve as a top executive in the development of a new corporaton! His Wife, Luz, is a wonderful, faithful and godly woman, who bore a son and daughter by a previous husband and then a daughter to Pete! At present she is working as a teacher's assistant in her local school district.

Andrew is a computer and software engineer and technician, whose genius produced the special software needed for the development of the same new corporation! His second wife, Felice, dismissed herself from being his wife; and I have now taken her place in home educating Andrew's five children!

William's wife, Virginia, brought him a daughter by a previous marriage and has been barren since then but has distinguished herself as an hard working secretary in the same school district in which she got him a marvelous job in the district's Data Processing Department.

William's heart is in Christianity as expressed through an apostolic church; but his personal calling is to health, body building and martial arts! And presently he is building quite a clientele as a massage therapist!

The members of my ministry's fellowship are, to me, additional members of my family! To some I am affectionately known as "Papa"! And I praise Yehovaw, every moment of every day, for each and every member of the House of Israel whom I have been privileged to sponsor in that greatest of all professed affiliations, our sonship or daughtership to Yehovaw, by which relationship all of us together are become the wife of Yehoshua ha Mawshiyakh, the King of kings and Lord of lords!

Amen! Alleluia!