Home School Convention.

This outing to Lansing for the Homeschool Convention was made by me, my sister and Mike and Rose Mary Coffey. We were able to spend a weekend making connections and talking with people about Bay Shore Camp. Being new to marketing/promotions here at Bay Shore, it was great to get a chance to talk with people that knew nothing about us, or what we offered to kids and families. Its so exciting to be a part of a ministry that has so much to offer both. Often times in the homeschool world its harder to connect with others that share your beliefs on the matter, and this convention gave them a meeting place. I do hope that in time we will be able to help facilitate our own meeting place here at camp for the homeschool community. It was a great opportunity to get away and to stay motivated to continuously look for new avenues of promotion for the camp.

I had a few pictures to post, but I don't have my camera with me, so instead I'm going to tell you a little bit about our NEW "Creative Writing Camp" that we have going on this summer. Its a camp for Grades 8-12 and will be held Aug 6-11. We are blessed to have J.B. Cheaney joining us for that camp. She is known in the homeschool community from her curriculum, "WordSmith". She has also authored 4 novels.

You can visit her website by clicking on her name: J.B.Cheaney

a few thoughts on blogging.

a blog is a place to communicate and is going to have more personal ties to the one that is posting. since one person is writting the posts, its not a surprise that it may seem to reflect their life at the camp. all in all, i try to post things that not only give information about the camp, but that can hopefully inspire you about God, make you laugh, and just show a more human side of people at camp. i post about american idol, because i think that its awesome that so much of this season has been centered around God and positive influences. in this day and age its hard to find anything on tv worth mentioning. and yes, not everyone is going to feel the same, but i hope that in many ways i can help point out good things in our culture that can be an encouragement to us and believers.

my intent with this blog is also to get many of the staff posting, so that different oppinions are shared about all things. but that takes time to get people on board and comfortable with sharing their thoughts on a blog. i do hope that anyone reading this blog can see that we here at bay shore camp and family ministries want to share our stories with you. which is why if others don't post, or tell us their stories so that i can post them, it may continue to seem one sided. it is not my personal intent to take over the bay shore blog, but it is my intent to post what i feel can be an encouragement, or fun pictures. i posted pictures of my friends because they were here at camp enjoying themselves and by posting pictures of them i was also able to share aspects of our camp with those reading. And my pictures from lake ann camp were so show a trip that 4 of us staff members were able to go on. a blog is not always just going to be a listing of whats coming up. that is really what our website is for, sure there will be times i keep you posted on our up-coming events, but as we grow and adapt this blog to meet the needs of the camp, be patient with us as we write about different things and as more people learn to become comfortable with blogging.

blogs are places to reflect on the world and life as we see it, and if i think there is something worth writing about i will, just as i would like for others here at camp to do the same thing. i'm sorry to any of our readers that don't think that this blog represents bay shore camp.

-cynthia.

Lake Ann Camp.

A few of us Ladies from Bay Shore Camp just recently had a chance to go and visit Lake Ann Camp (near Traverse City). It was a great time of asking questions, seeing their facilities and eating cherries! Big thanks to Eric, Troy and E.J. for all their help. Here are just a few pictures from our time there! Also, I threw in a couple of shots from while my friends were here from Chicago last weekend!