01 03 SHILOH TODAY to experience incredible growth and they believed that I had favor with students, parents, and teachers and was the leader the school needed in that position. On faith I stepped out. I had one condition though. I’d only do it if I was allowed to teach one class - the senior level worldview class. The next four years were marvelous. I think I actually pulled off the dean thing...not because I am so great, but because we had the absolute best faculty. I mean top tier, A-list professionals. I just released them. Empowered them. Supported them. Encouraged them. It was a perfect union - something God put together for sure. There is no way “man” could have accomplished this. After four years, the Lord finally did call me away from Shiloh. My family moved to Fort Smith where I served as senior pastor of Grand Avenue Baptist Church, but the school kept growing in enrollment, program, ministry, and scope - constantly maturing. I truly did believe my family had experienced the last of Shiloh in our lives. Until seven years later, Pastor Floyd called again to invite me to come back. Not to Shiloh this time, but to join the church staff. We said yes. And so we returned. One of the BEST parts was that Garrett came back as a senior and was able to graduate from Shiloh. Madison would go on to graduate from Shiloh two years later. And then Grayson six years after that. Currently, Marcela is a senior set to graduate this year. I have grown from a guy with no job, taking a long shot chance at teaching Bible, to helping lead Shiloh, to being a parent with what soon will be four Shiloh graduates. The school is in my bones. It’s part of my DNA. The eight years I spent serving the school are hands down the Golden Years of my ministry. former students, many of whom now have their own kids at Shiloh. And a few of those same former students now teach and coach at Shiloh. I’ve conducted the marriages of countless 03 Shiloh has grown far beyond what it was when I served the school. Last year Shiloh had over 1,100 students. Unbelievable. The past was great. No doubt. But I firmly believe what lies ahead will be even greater, and I look forward to watching it all happen. 05 02 04 To give financially and become a part of the Shiloh Legacy, visit www.shilohsaints.org/legacy 22 20 DR. JEFF CRAWFORD
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