Shiloh Baptist Church, Franklin/Wheelock, TX

04/20/2025

What a blessed Easter Day! We celebrated the resurrection of our Saviour with worship and communion while God blessed us with healing rain outside!

This Saturday, April 26, we are having our annual Community Fish Fry. Beginning at 5:30pm, we will serve fried catfish, fries, and hush puppies with homemade cocktail sauce and tea. It is usually like a homecoming with neighbors, current and former members, friends & family! After eating, many move to the sanctuary for some old fashioned singing!

You are invited, and we would truly love to see you there!

04/13/2025

My heart is happy that I get to worship the Lord today! Where will you worship and serve today!

11/27/2024

Did you see Shiloh in the news? Enjoy this clip: https://www.kxxv.com/news/local-news/in-your-neighborhood/a-recipe-for-community-shiloh-baptist-church-to-celebrate-91st-annual-community-stew-tradition

Thank you Ezekiel Ramirez for coming out to visit and share our story!

For nearly a century, Shiloh Baptist Church has put on an annual event to gather the community, forge new memories, and honor the past.

11/27/2024

God's word is so full of abundance and blessings for his people. Let's remember Him as we count our blessings, at tables loaded with blessings, and surrounded by the blessing of family and friends. Ephesians 1:3 says: Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ.

Blessings! In this season of thankfulness, we are thankful for so many friends coming out to have stew with us and blessing us with fellowship, buttermilk pies, cornbread, cookies, buttermilk pies, apple pies, buttermilk pies... yes, we had SIX buttermilk pies and so many other goodies.

10/23/2024

The air doesn’t feel like it yet, but we are already planning this year’s community stew event. We are getting excited about seeing all of you again over a bowl of our stew with a side of love and conversation. Mark your calendars for Saturday, November 23!

08/04/2024

Bible based preaching - check!

Old-fashioned comfort food hymns with a message - check!

Prayers for our country, lost people, our troops and more - check!

Screens, projectors, and smoke - oops, not here.

If you’d like to get back to the basics of worshipping, praying, and serving God and doing it in sweet fellowship with other believers, join us at 11am on Sunday mornings. We’d love to see you!

07/16/2024

In light of our nation's current situation, 2 Chronicles 7:14 applies, but keep in mind - he's not calling on non-believers, he is calling on Christians, called by His holy name, to confess, and turn away from our sins, be humble, seek his face (that's an ACTION, not an accident), and pray to Him, and promises to heal our land. We can't watch the news and blame "those other people." Be sure that wherever you are hearing the word, it's not a false prophet using just a touch of scripture to confuse us the way the serpent did with Eve.

King James Bible
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

05/30/2024

Pastor Paul has been preaching from 2 Peter 2 in recent weeks. Peter is really calling out today's church in his letter to the early church. He was writing to believers, not unbelievers. THEY didn't have written scripture to guide them like we do, other than the Old Testament. THEY didn't have regular, trusted pastors to teach and guide them. They had Peters and Pauls and other missionaries come by or write to them to help them mature as Christians. Yet they grew, ignored the false teachings that Paul and Peter warned them about, and now the Word is available for us to read, love, pray, share, study, obey, teach, etc. The terrifying part is how accurate it still is today - False teachers are all over, some making millions and leading thousands of people into artificial relationships with God and others and we have television, social media and other tools for it to spread. Are we "sharing" the Truth? Are we reading our Bible to verify what we hear? Can we, like sheep, recognize the voice of our holy shepherd? Verses 9 forward look like they were written to the modern church and it's not pretty.

05/13/2024

Yesterday was a day to celebrate the mothers in our lives. Thanks to God for all of our mothers. Some of us have extra mothers through marriage, friendships, etc. Don't you just love it when you have a spiritual mother? A spiritual mother is someone who has a great relationship with our Father God, and shares godly wisdom and guidance with us.

Titus 2:3 says: Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.

Blessings to all of you mothers out there raising us up in our Lord!

03/30/2024

As we enter Easter weekend, let us remember God’s sacrifice and Jesus’ torture and death that brought us salvation and forgiveness. May we share the same mercy and un-merited grace each day even to those we disagree with, who vote differently, who live differently, etc. Love our neighbors each day.

We encourage you to find a church family to worship with this Sunday and each Sunday, and know that you are welcome to gather with the Shiloh family.

12/25/2023

We pray that each of you feel the presence of our Living God as we celebrate his gift to mankind, Jesus. Luke 2. Joy to the world!!

11/16/2023

Shiloh Baptist Church, was established on August 5, 1854 by seven Men and Women. Early baptisms were conducted in tanks and creeks by Pastor, Thomas Eaton. Some of the first members included the Anderson’s, Barnett’s, Bolton’s, Cobb’s, Mauk’s, Neely’s, Pack’s, Smith’s and Youngblood’s. The church grew as others joined the congregation and over the next several decades moving to it’s present location, on land donated by the Barnett Family.
In 1933, on the Saturday before Thanksgiving they began a tradition of having a Community Stew as Families' brought in the last of their harvest. Some brought Beef while others brought vegetables and seasoning to share a delicious meal, before the Holiday's. As a young kid I watched the older men stirring the stew outside over an smoky oak fire. Now after attending more that sixty years of stews it was hard to understand that the women were the ones who did all the work cutting up the meat and vegetables while the men did the stirring, and got All the credit. My Grandmother was a wonderful cook and I now realize the work that goes into preparing a large meal. When someone now compliments on what a good Stew it was, I say go thank the wonderful Ladies that did all the work and deserve all the recognition, we just did the stirring.