Shiloh Creek

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 found — and the little creek turns out to be connected, running all the way down to join the wide water. A warm, funny homecoming about the truest treasure of any adventure: the friends you carry in your heart and come home to. Anchored in a line a man named Paul wrote to his friends in the Bible, in his letter to the Philippians: 'I thank my God upon every remembrance of you.' With a wide-water wonder, a Mudpuppy Minutes about where water goes, and Jigstar heading home to the human world (door open for next time). For kids ages 4-12. Stories of kindness and wonder from Old Timber and the friends at Shiloh Creek.

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 'new every morning.' With a Professor Hoot fact about the dawn chorus, a Mudpuppy Minutes about what makes morning happen, and Fern home and glad to be back. For kids ages 4-12. Stories of kindness and wonder from Old Timber and the friends at Shiloh Creek.

Bramble the traveling storyteller is back at Shiloh Creek with one of his little tales — a story about two animals who each built half of an old stone wall, and the morning a young one asked which half was the good half. Old Timber, delighted, knows at once what it means... or thinks he does. But when little Zippy hears something Old Timber breezed right past — the part where the builders only finished the wall when they helped each other in the middle — the wisest, oldest one at the creek goes quiet, and then he smiles: an old grey head, learning a new thing. A warm, funny story about staying teachable — that even the wise keep learning, and you don't have to know everything. Anchored in a line from the Bible, from the book of Micah: do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly. With a Professor Hoot fact about creatures that keep learning their whole lives, and a Mudpuppy Minutes from three frogs gloriously certain they already know it all. For kids ages 4-12. Stories of kindness and wonder from Old Timber and the friends at Shiloh Creek.

Garingo prepares the grandest act of his life for Show-and-Tell Morning — then finds a friend's spilled seed-jars with nobody watching, and quietly gives up his whole show to set them right. A warm story about kindness that counts even when nobody sees it: the part of you that matters most is the part only God sees. Bible verse: 1 Samuel 16:7.

Bongo has never been scared of anything — until he's alone in the dark at the Hollow Log, fetching lantern-moss for the evening sing. When he says 'I'm scared' out loud for the first time, he discovers the dark was never empty: it's full of crickets, fireflies, his friend Professor Hoot, and God right there with him. A gentle story that you're never alone in the dark. Bible verse: Isaiah 41:10.

Autumn comes to Shiloh Creek and the great sunflower by the rocks is done — and Zippy, who never stops, is sure the good things are ending for good. But Shelly, the quiet one who notices, kneels her down by the seeds the flower is dropping: a turning isn't an ending, it's a keeping. A gentle story about why you don't have to be afraid when things change — because the One who set the seasons turning never changes. Anchored in Malachi 3:6, 'For I am the LORD, I change not.' Ages 4-12.

The whole creek is racing toward one big morning — but Quilla, the gentle chinchilla, keeps stopping to notice the small good things everyone rushes past: a dewdrop holding the whole sky, a pebble worn smooth, the first frost-star. When the big morning lands smaller than the hype, Quilla shows Bongo the day was full of gifts all along — and every one is worth a thank-you, all the way up to God who gives them. A warm story about gratitude and noticing, anchored in Ephesians 5:20, 'Giving thanks always for all things unto God.' Ages 4-12.

It's a special one. Jigstar visits the Creek with news from far away: his friends Vera and Tega love hearing his stories about the animals — and one gloomy day, a silly Mudpuppy bit made Vera laugh and turned her day bright. The three frogs, who always thought they were just for laughs, discover that making someone smile is a kindness that travels further than they'll ever see. A warm story about how love reaches across any distance, anchored in 1 John 4:7, 'Let us love one another: for love is of God.' With a special hello to Vera and Tega. Ages 4-12.

Garingo the parrot loves an audience — so what's the point of a good deed if nobody's there to clap? But one morning the Creek is full of small good things that just happened: the gate's mended, the trough's full, the bramble's cleared, and nobody saw who did it. Garingo sets out to catch the mystery do-gooder and throw him a parade — and learns it's Ranger Ray, the keeper who tends the whole place season after season and is never seen and never thanked. So Garingo tries it himself, fixing a footbridge plank with no audience at all — and finds out how it feels to do a real good thing nobody notices. Does it still count? A warm, quiet story about the good you do when no one's watching, anchored in Galatians 6:9 — 'let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.' Ages 4-12.

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.