Shiloh Christian Children’s Ranch*
      
       When the vision for Shiloh began in 1976, founders Don McCain and Stan Way didn’t start with a blueprint; they started with prayer.  They earnestly sought the prayers of fellow believers to help them launch this ministry with wisdom. 
Stan Moore, Chairman of Shiloh’s Board of Trustees, is redoubling that request.  “As we prepare for the next 50 years, it is imperative that we seek God’s blessings and guidance above all else.”
The Lord answers through our faithful, prayerful Partners!  Since opening our doors in July of 1977, Shiloh has grown.  From that first home on ten acres, serving 12 children Christ provided five full-time homes on 270 acres with the ability to help 50 youngsters.  Currently at 80% capacity, and with requests for help rising, the need for divine wisdom also grows. 
Your faithful prayers and generosity will help us answer the vital questions our Trustees face today: “What’s next?  Who’s next? How soon?”
I am inviting you to pray more for the families at Shiloh.  Even before you consider your financial gift this month, I ask that you pray first.
We move forward only by relying on Christ’s vision and His provision.  Thank you for partnering with us as together we pray our way into 2026!
*Excerpts from Cherish the Day,
1/15/26 prayer letter. Kevin D. Blew 
 

It has recently come to my attention that there are some people in the world who use bar soap very differently than I do. For those of you who are still traditional like I am and reach for that bar of soap rather than the sudsy loofa you might be interested to know that there are two schools of thought when it comes to cleaning yourself. On the one hand you have those that simply grab the soup and proceed to rub it directly onto the skin. This was, I thought, the only way that people use soap. Until I discovered that some people use washcloths to literally wash themselves. They take that same bar of soap, rub it on the washcloth causing it to lather, and then rub the washcloth on their skin instead. The argument from some of these radicals (I apologize if you are one of them) is that you are dirty, and if you wipe the soap directly on what is already dirty then you are contaminating the soap itself. And in many ways, I found this concept eerily similar to the Old Testament laws on cleanliness. If you allowed yourself to become unclean than anything you touched would also become unclean. 
Imagine a life where your ability to interact physically with anyone or anything was fully dependent on being clean. Not physically clean, but spiritually, ceremonially clean. And when you make a mistake the rest of the world retracted from you for fear of contamination. Your family, your friends, your social circles wouldn’t touch you, or anything that you had touched. Your spiritual standing and failures could leave you fully isolated. And no one would cross that boundary to risk themselves. Unless that person is Jesus.
Jesus does something that no one else can. One of the arguments that was commonly used against Jesus was that he interacted with sinners. And one of the reasons that people avoided that very action was because it would make them unclean. Where anyone else would be contaminated by our sin, our dirt, Jesus instead overwhelms our sin with his purity.