Ebediah
Scott is a Personal Contact Minister in Iowa
Glenwood, Iowa
I was born in 1964 and grew up in southwest Iowa on the homestead land my mother's family settled back in the mid 1800s in the Loess Hills, a few miles east of the Missouri River. Being a child of Uncle Sam and descendent of Cain, at least metaphorical due to my birth status and conditioning, I couldn't wait to get off the farm and into the real world. I pretty much left home as soon as I graduated from High School, leaving for college but never really returning other than for holidays or if I needed something from my family. I lived all over the United States, at last count I have had nearly 30 different mailing addresses after I left home as a young worldly, secular humanist out to live the dream of all neo-Romans.
Spiritual Journey
I grew up attending and being confirmed in a state incorporated, 501(c)(3) non-profit, tax-exempt, "religious" organization of the state, but during my confirmation the minister either could not or would not answer my serious questions about God and the Bible with any substantive, reasoned, logically and verifiable answers. But I did not give up that easily. I visited all kinds of so-called "churches" in my mid to late teens always asking the same questions but never getting any real answers. So I had to conclude that all this "church", "Bible" and "God" stuff was nothing but a waste of time, superstition, and a carnival side show to entertain and appease the weak-minded and ignorant. I decided to turn my back on church, and God in the process. However, something inside me wouldn't let "God" go. So after leaving southwest Iowa, I started learning about all other kinds of "religious" ideologies from Atheism, Buddhism, Gnosticism, Hinduism, Taoism to reading up on Zoroastrianism, so from A-Z I studied the world's religions and found all of them to be wanting in some if not many regards. So after a while I just let it go. Those pangs of spirituality were basically ignored.
Expatriation
It wasn't until I was living in Florida working principally as a Federal Aviation Administration licensed aircraft dispatch instructor and examiner that through a long series, of what appeared to be at the time, unrelated events, I was actually learning about the Creator of heaven and earth in an indirect way, which was by studying the Roman civil law, as a requirement of my worldly aviation job. The seemingly random events and epiphanies of, for lack of a better word, enlightenment, took me down the proverbial rabbit hole to what I now call "The Adventures in the wondrous Law of Nature and Nature's God." It was through this rabbit hole that I first went the rebellious patriot route and joined forces with the People's Awareness Coalition. After an intense two years of studying about expatriation and early America and the common law of England I decided to selfishly free myself via legal paperwork and expatriate and renounce any and all allegiance to my substitute daddy "Uncle Sam". But this act of selfish rebellion left me fatherless, stateless and without a family, since all the people that I considered my family were still part of Uncle Sam's family of US citizens, US persons, US nationals. Oh sure they were still my family, but I had solidified my position as THE black sheep. Before expatriating I was just the odd one in the family. Now I was really out there. Conversations at family gatherings were strained and my presence would immediately cause people to clam up and change the subject of conversations to very benign and boring topics. No one wanted to talk about anything that might "get me going".
Finding HHC
It was through the People's Awareness Coalition that I first heard about HHC. It seems like that would have been around 2007 or 2008 that I signed up on the HHC groups. While working with PAC I had penned "Oil and Water", under my then very rebellious political name, "Federal Farmer", which was a moniker used by several Anti-Federalists, like Melancton Smith, Richard Henry Lee, and George Clinton, at the time the Federal Constitution was being submitted to the States for ratification. I found out that James Williams, Gregory's son, was turning "Oil and Water" into some kind of multimedia video production for PAC. By this time I had already started reading some of Gregory Williams articles and listening to him when PAC founder L.B. Bork would interview Gregory on his internet radio shows, which convinced me that I should sign up and check it out.
Building Relationships
The various groups have changed a lot since back in 2008 or so, and in some ways not changed at all. I remember reading a post on the groups about a barn fire in Illinois and the email group family was appealing for help in the clean up. This prayer came on the group several months after I had joined and was sort of active posting but also doing a lot of lurking at first trying to get a feel for this "religious" group called "His Holy Church"...remember that I was one of those that hissed loudly anytime someone even uttered "church" under their breath. But I convinced my wife, Angela, (God is totally responsible for that) to go and meet all these total strangers on a totally off-grid homestead in Illinois to help them sort through the rubble of their barn fire. Unfortunately we were having car trouble on the way to Illinois from southwest Iowa that turned out to be a broken automatic transmission shifter cable. So we only stayed one night and headed back on Saturday afternoon, having to get out of the car, open the hood, and manually shift the transmission into park, reverse or drive whenever we stopped. But it was at that brief meeting were Angela where I met several HHCers for the first time and were impressed and decided to stick around this network and get more involved. It was at that meeting that I met Anthony Shaw for the first time. He and his family and me and my family have met up at several gatherings since and our relationship keeps growing and getting more involved with each passing year as it has with all the HHC folks that I continue to meet. From the families that started congregating together in the early spring of 2010 here in the Omaha, Nebraska, Council Bluffs, Iowa area, to when that small free will assembly decided to go on the record in November of 2010 and establish the local kingdom of God government office of service and trust named, His Church at Loess Hills, for which, I was elected to serve as His Church (HC) trustee and minister.
Present
Today (July 2013) I am a "roving Elder" currently choosing to freely assemble with the other families that are served by the local His Church office of service and trust called His Church at Holy Sacrament, Justin Garduno, HC, and I am an aspirant who has formally applied for entry as a novice to the Living Stones of Christ, His Order at White Rock. I am prayerful that someday I will be accepted as a novice. When, I don't know. That is for God to decide. Maybe I will find that my calling is to be a full time bond servant of Christ and be adopted into an order, as a member of an orderly family, a full brother, and if that is the case for my journey I certainly hope that maybe someday an order will form as a servant family with a base closer to my home in Iowa. Because it took me nearly thirty years of being on the road away from my ancestral home land to realize that I really don't want to ever leave home again, at least not permanently that is. If not then I will serve God in whatever way he leads. Maybe I will remain the patriarch of the Hostetter clan and serve as the King and priest for my natural family, a Godly state/estate.
I am happily married to my wife Angela, under a private agreement, without applying to any gods of the state for a license, other than the God of Creation. Angela and I were married in a private ceremony attended and witnessed by many friends and family. I am the father of Jordan (24 in 2013) who lives in New Hampshire, and Milan (19 in 2013) who lives with us at home while attending the local college. Oh, and daddy to Yasha, our beautiful, Frisbee catching, Belgian Malinois.
How to Contact
Every Saturday I try to host a conference call to fellowship, discuss and study with others. Please consider fellowship with me and others on Saturday using a software program called Talk Shoe. I host a two hour call on Talk Shoe open to any and all that would like to log in and or call in and participate. The call begins at 2:00pm Eastern time, 1:00pm Central time, 12:00pm Mountain time, 11:00am Pacific time. The Talk Shoe webpage for this call can be accessed by CLICKING HERE. The conference call dial in information is: Phone Number: (724) 444-7444 and the Call ID: 89698. The call is scheduled for two hours. No one is obligated to be on the call for the whole two hours. Come and join in during the two hours, when you want for as long as you want. The format is as follows. The first hour is dedicated to an open study of the HHC book, The Free Church Report. The second hour is dedicated to open fellowship discussion; however, the call, like everything in the Kingdom of God is organic. There is no hard and fast rules to the format. Whatever happens, happens.
Scott's email: libertyfarmsiowa@gmail.com
Phone number: 71two-527-7533
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