Shiloh Creek

Welcome to Shiloh Creek — a quirky nature reserve where Old Timber, a wise old elephant elder, tells stories from the lives of the animals who live there. Bongo the klutzy bear cub, Zippy the hyperactive hummingbird, Shelly the dry-witted tortoise, Garingo the dramatic parrot, Fern the shy fawn, and a chorus of comic frogs called the Mudpuppies all share their adventures, their mistakes, and what they learn from each other. Every story carries a timeless principle from the Bible — never as a lecture, always as part of the story. For kids ages 4-12. Stories of kindness, courage, honesty, patience, and friendship.

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Episodes 32

Ep 1 · Welcome to Shiloh Creek
2mo ago · 18:32
Old Timber pulls up by the pond and gathers the friends — and the listener — for the very first story. A shy fawn named Fern arrives in Shiloh Creek for the first time. The animals rush to welcome her — except Shelly the tortoise, who knows that the kindest welcome is sometimes the quietest one. The Bible has a line about loving your neighbour. Fern reminds us how today.
Ep 2 · The Moonflower
2mo ago · 18:14
The night Bongo tried to make the moon hurry up. Fern's first moonflower is about to bloom — but only when the moon decides it's ready. Bongo doesn't want to wait. The Mudpuppies don't want to wait. Even Professor Hoot has theories. Only Fern, quiet by the bud, gets to see the first bloom — and what she learns about being still, the Bible knew first.
Ep 3 · The Wind Did It
2mo ago · 17:14
The morning Garingo the parrot blamed the wind for something the wind did not do. Shelly's favourite rock has split in half. Garingo invents the most theatrical lie in the history of Shiloh Creek — a small, local, highly local, undocumented wind. The listener sees the whole thing happen. Garingo learns that the truth needs only one short sentence — and the lie needs many. The Bible has a line about that too.
Ep 4 · Storm at Shiloh Creek
2mo ago · 17:29
A storm rolls into Shiloh Creek and the friends scatter in panic. Bongo wants to fix the sky. Zippy has seven ideas. Garingo announces the wind has feelings. Only Fern — the shyest of them all — quietly remembers the way to a safe lookout. The dear thing who used to say nothing finds she has the words to lead. The Bible has an old line about being brave — and Joshua, who was scared, and led his friends anyway.
Ep 5 · The Great Flood
2mo ago · 20:22
The morning Zippy the hummingbird tried to fix the meadow and accidentally made it a lake. The Hydra-Tron Three Thousand was supposed to water everything gently. It did not. Bongo tries to help by digging channels (this makes it worse). Garingo announces the meadow has become a pond. The Mudpuppies are having the best day of their lives. Zippy is devastated. And the friends — slowly, one by one — find their way to forgive her. The Bible has a line about forgiving someone seventy times seven, which is just a way of saying don't keep score.
Ep 6 · Berry Season
2mo ago · 20:15
The harvest is small this year. The friends sit at the patch and count — and there aren't enough berries to go around. Zippy does the math. Garingo announces a stress. Shelly arrives with one berry. And Old Timber visits — and reminds the friends, gently, of someone who isn't even at the patch. The Mudpuppies. Jesus once told his friends something about giving — that when you give freely, without counting, the joy comes back full. For kids ages 4-12. Stories of generosity from the lives of Old Timber and the friends at Shiloh Creek.
Ep 7 · The Path Through
2mo ago · 20:39
Bongo the bear cub has a plan — and a leaf-map. He's leading his friends to the old barn for the late-summer gathering. But a storm in the night has shifted a big branch across the path, and the way Bongo drew on his leaf-map isn't there anymore. King Solomon once wrote in the Bible — trust in the Lord, lean not unto thine own understanding. Bongo learns what it means to stop pretending to know the way, and let the Lord show him a path he could never have drawn himself. For kids ages 4-12. Stories of trust and quiet wisdom from Old Timber and the friends at Shiloh Creek.
Ep 8 · Best Rainy Day Ever
2mo ago · 19:04
Shelly leads a rainy-day adventure when the planned swim is cancelled. Worms emerge, a frog sings under a leaf, leaves drink. The friends learn what it means to give thanks in the day you got — not the day you wanted. Anchored in the Apostle Paul's letter to the Thessalonians — in every thing give thanks. For kids ages 4-12. Stories of gratitude and quiet noticing from Old Timber and the friends at Shiloh Creek.
Ep 9 · The Bridge
2mo ago · 20:54
Bongo the bear cub is sure he can lift the fallen log across the path by himself. He's strong. He's a bear. Bears lift logs. But the log won't move — and his friends are waiting. Anchored in Ecclesiastes chapter four, verse nine — two are better than one. King Solomon's old wisdom lived out in a bear cub learning to ask for help BEFORE he lifts. For kids ages 4-12. Stories of teamwork and quiet wisdom from Old Timber and the friends at Shiloh Creek.
Ep 10 · The Visitor
2mo ago · 21:26
The story of the morning a small fast-chittering chipmunk showed up at the meadow with what sounded like a very grievous complaint — and how Garingo the parrot tried something he had never tried before. A soft answer. Anchored in Proverbs chapter fifteen, verse one — a soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. King Solomon's old wisdom lived out in a theatrical parrot learning that the loud thing in his throat is not always the truest one. For kids ages 4-12. Stories of self-control and de-escalation from Old Timber and the friends at Shiloh Creek.
Ep 11 · Shiloh Creek Olympics
2mo ago · 20:54
The morning Shelly the tortoise crossed her first threshold — saying yes to her first race. Bongo bounds. Zippy zips. Garingo flies low and theatrical. Shelly walks. Slowly. Each step is HER race — against the part of her that wants to quit. And when the meadow goes quiet from misplaced kindness, the verse Old Timber whispered to her at dawn comes back, in her own voice, and she keeps walking. Anchored in Paul's letter to the Hebrews, chapter twelve, verse one — the cloud of witnesses and the race that is set before us. For kids ages 4-12. Stories of perseverance and the quiet courage of start
Ep 12 · The Surprise
2mo ago · 19:49
Season 1 finale. The friends plan a quiet surprise for Ranger Ray, who has been gone on his ranger circuit. Fern leads — her seed-of-anxious-debut now arc-paid-off as confident orchestrator. Each prep-detail weaves a memory from a prior episode: lanterns from a flood, berries from a recovered patch, the hidden path from a storm, Shelly's slow procession, Chitter returning welcome. When Ranger Ray arrives, he names the small kind things he saw all season — love that remembers, love that doesn't parade. Anchored in Paul's letter to the Corinthians, chapter thirteen, verse four — charity sufferet
Ep 13 · The Smartest Animal Contest
2mo ago · 18:41
Season 2 begins. Professor Hoot announces a contest to settle, once and for all, who is the smartest animal in Shiloh Creek — and fully expects to win it himself. But the day the quietest, smallest friend helps without being asked, Hoot learns that being the smartest isn't the same as being right. The last become first. Anchored in a line Jesus told his friends — the last shall be first, and the first last. For kids ages 4-12. A new season of stories from Old Timber and the friends at Shiloh Creek.
Ep 14 · The Old Grudge
2mo ago · 16:49
An old falling-out between Garingo the parrot and Shelly the tortoise — quiet for a long time — finally surfaces. The friends already learned to forgive once. But what about the SAME hurt, coming back again? With a little help from Old Timber and a fact about penguins who take turns at the cold edge of the huddle, Garingo and Shelly learn that forgiveness isn't one big moment — it's a thing you practise, and it's allowed to be hard the second time. Paul once wrote to his friends in Colossae: bear with one another, and forgive. For kids ages 4-12.
Ep 15 · The Long Friend
2mo ago · 20:48
Old Timber needs the spare lantern from the big old barn before the light goes — and the only two friends at the pond are Bongo, who is all hurry, and Shelly, who is all wait. Zippy, Fern, and Garingo wave the mismatched pair off; then it's just the quick one and the slow one, together, on a small quest down the winding path. About a bear cub who keeps charging ahead and a tortoise who keeps being right about the slow way round; about a mud-slick where Bongo's speed is exactly wrong and Shelly's care is exactly right, and a fallen reed-gate where Shelly's pace is exactly wrong and Bongo's stro
Ep 16 · The New One
2mo ago · 20:33
A traveller from the high dry country comes to the creek with a quiet, unhurried way of saying hello — and fast little Zippy zips right past her. But when the friends climb up to the cold thin air of the high country, it is Zippy who is suddenly the new one, rushed-past and left behind — and she learns, from the inside, what she did that morning. A visitor-welcome story about the Golden Rule, lived. Anchored in a line a teacher named Jesus taught, written down in the Bible — and as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. For kids ages 4-12. Stories of kindness and empa
Ep 17 · The Little Voice
2mo ago · 20:53
Fern hears something nobody else does — a tiny cricket, hidden under the very reeds the friends are about to clear for a big building project. The cricket can't talk; it can only chirp. Fern noticed it, but she is too shy to speak up while Bongo, Garingo, and Zippy boom ahead with the plan. As the work rushes toward the cricket's hiding place, Fern has to choose: stay quiet and safe, or open her mouth for the one small voice that can't speak for itself. A first-solo-lead courage-of-conscience story about being an upstander, not a bystander — using your voice for someone who can't use theirs. A
Ep 18 · The Glad Goodbye
2mo ago · 22:54
It's Fern's last morning at the creek — she's grown brave enough to go explore the wide water downstream, and she's happy to go. But the friends droop into a grey, no-one-wants-to-play gloom. Then a brand-new otter named Rex slides in, joyful and certain he can fix sad with backflips — and learns, the hard way, that you can't cheer a sadness away. A goodbye-and-hello story about choosing a cheerful heart that doesn't pretend the hard away: being glad FOR a friend and sad to see them go, both at once, out loud, together. Anchored in a line the wise King Solomon wrote down in the Bible, in the b
Ep 19 · The Not-Yet Day
2mo ago · 18:11
Zippy the hummingbird CANNOT wait. There's a chrysalis on a branch about to become a butterfly — "almost ready," everyone keeps saying — and almost-ready is the hardest thing Zippy has ever heard. She tries fanning it, singing to it, even helping it open early... and nearly spoils the very thing she's been longing for. With Rex right beside her, the friends learn to wait together — and the butterfly comes out, in its own good time, all the bigger for the waiting. A gentle story about patience: that good things keep their own season, and the waiting can be part of the gift — even waiting for a
Ep 20 · The Brave Small Thing
2mo ago · 15:36
The Mudpuppies — Splish, Splash, and Splosh — have never led an adventure before. So when a kind little errand sends the three tiny frogs out of their cozy pond all the way to the big old barn at dusk, they do what small-and-scared folks often do: they puff up LOUD and pretend they're not frightened at all ("we're barn experts — we've never been inside, which is HOW we know so much!"). But bravado runs out at the dark doorway, and Splish finally says the true thing: "I've been scared the whole time." Together — naming the fear, trusting God is right there with them — they do the brave thing an
Ep 21 · The Very Good Day
2mo ago · 19:47
Something happens at Shiloh Creek that has never happened before: a human comes to visit — a curious, kind, clever boy named Jigstar, who follows the water right into the middle of the morning. The animals are amazed ("Where's your TAIL? Can you do a BACKFLIP? Can you SLIDE?"), but then Jigstar turns the question around and asks THEM: do you ever wish you were something else? One by one the friends admit a secret wish — fast Zippy wishes she could be still, slow Shelly wishes she were quick, and loud Garingo wishes he were as brave on the inside as he sounds on the outside — until it starts to
Ep 22 · The Mending Day
2mo ago · 19:24
Bongo the bear cub LOVES to help — he's just a bit of a klutz about it. So when he tries to tidy up for Old Timber and accidentally knocks the elephant's most precious keepsake — a smooth memory-stone he's carried since he was young — and it cracks clean in two, Bongo does the thing every kid has been tempted to do: he hides the pieces and hopes nobody finds out. But the hiding turns out to be far heavier to carry than the truth. With a gentle nudge from Shelly ("heavy things get lighter when you set them down"), Bongo finally owns up — and Old Timber meets him not with anger but with mercy, a
Ep 23 · The Quiet Ears
2mo ago · 18:57
A traveling storyteller hedgehog named Bramble wanders into Shiloh Creek the very morning Chitter the chipmunk races back with big news: the bend-tree's first blossom has opened — and it only stays open for one morning! But Chitter talks SO fast, and everyone's only half-listening, that his little message gets passed friend-to-friend and comes out the other end wonderfully wrong — a blossom TOSS, then a blossom CONTEST, then a whole blossom PARTY (bring snacks!). While the loud friends build a party at the wrong tree, quiet Quilla — who heard it right the first time — can't get a word in. It t
Ep 24 · Guess Who's Back
2mo ago · 17:31
The Season 2 finale! It's a golden evening at Shiloh Creek when a familiar shape steps out of the tall grass — Fern the fawn is HOME, back from the big adventure she set off on, all the way over the ridge to the wide water. And she's not alone: she's brought a human boy she met on the road. But when the friends all shout his name, it's Fern who freezes — because the kind boy who walked her home turns out to be Jigstar, the Creek's very own guest-friend, who'd heard them miss her and recognized her from her own stories. As the friends gather by the water, Fern tells where she went and what she
Ep 25 · The Morning That Started Twice
2mo ago · 16:56
The Season 3 premiere — welcome back to Shiloh Creek, and it's a brand-new season AND a brand-new morning! When Bongo's morning goes all wrong — spilled berries, a tipped dew-bucket, and a wake-up song that comes out like a duck stepping on a kazoo — he decides the whole day is RUINED and tries to skip straight to tomorrow. But Old Timber and the friends show him something wonderful: a morning gets to start over, and yesterday's mess-up doesn't have to weigh down today. A warm, funny story about fresh starts, anchored in a line from the Bible, in a book called Lamentations: God's kindness is '

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Episodes 32

Ep 1 · Welcome to Shiloh Creek

Ep 2 · The Moonflower

Ep 3 · The Wind Did It

Ep 4 · Storm at Shiloh Creek

Ep 5 · The Great Flood

Ep 6 · Berry Season

Ep 7 · The Path Through

Ep 8 · Best Rainy Day Ever

Ep 9 · The Bridge

Ep 10 · The Visitor

Ep 11 · Shiloh Creek Olympics

Ep 12 · The Surprise

Ep 13 · The Smartest Animal Contest

Ep 14 · The Old Grudge

Ep 15 · The Long Friend

Ep 16 · The New One

Ep 17 · The Little Voice

Ep 18 · The Glad Goodbye

Ep 19 · The Not-Yet Day

Ep 20 · The Brave Small Thing

Ep 21 · The Very Good Day

Ep 22 · The Mending Day

Ep 23 · The Quiet Ears

Ep 24 · Guess Who's Back

Ep 25 · The Morning That Started Twice

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Episodes 32

Ep 1 · Welcome to Shiloh Creek

Ep 2 · The Moonflower

Ep 3 · The Wind Did It

Ep 4 · Storm at Shiloh Creek

Ep 5 · The Great Flood

Ep 6 · Berry Season

Ep 7 · The Path Through

Ep 8 · Best Rainy Day Ever

Ep 9 · The Bridge

Ep 10 · The Visitor

Ep 11 · Shiloh Creek Olympics

Ep 12 · The Surprise

Ep 13 · The Smartest Animal Contest

Ep 14 · The Old Grudge

Ep 15 · The Long Friend

Ep 16 · The New One

Ep 17 · The Little Voice

Ep 18 · The Glad Goodbye

Ep 19 · The Not-Yet Day

Ep 20 · The Brave Small Thing

Ep 21 · The Very Good Day

Ep 22 · The Mending Day

Ep 23 · The Quiet Ears

Ep 24 · Guess Who's Back

Ep 25 · The Morning That Started Twice