Forever Grateful
Cora attended Bay Shore’s Family Camp the year she was born, 2001, and has attended almost every year since. She’s 22 years old now and a graduate of Cedarville University.
In addition to attending Family Camp she remembers attending other summer camp programs at Bay Shore, including Primary Camp, Jr. Camp, and Junior High Camp. She remembers learning so much at Primary, and Junior Camp that it was “bubbling out” of her. She spent so much time at Bay Shore, she’s come to know it as a second home. She describes Bay Shore Family Camp as a “sweet place that brings back a lot memories.”
Cora is most thankful for the impact that the Bay Shore Family has had on her walk with the Lord. She recalls growing so much in her faith in “God’s Squad,” and “Impact” the youth program at Family Camp. She recalls multiple speakers over the years whose teaching helped her grow in her faith. Whenever she comes to Bay Shore she feels “spiritually refreshed” and truly believes in Bay Shore’s motto of “Growing in the Lord”.
Additionally, she values Bay Shore as a place of fellowship for family and friends, where “we can all grow in the Lord together.”
So many people, who have grown up always attending Church and Bay Shore will say, “I’ve always been a Christian,” or “I don’t know anything other than life with Jesus.” Like so many Bay Shore Campers, it’s the same for Cora. But she does remember that day in “God’s Squad,” when her favorite leader, Paul, made a salvation call, and fifth grader, Cora, recommitted her life to Christ. “That moment has really stuck with me as part of my testimony, and just one of the many ways that Bay Shore has made an impact on my faith.”
Cora first began to discern a call to going abroad as a missionary teacher in college. “My love for the Lord has caused me to want others to know Him and be able to find their joy and hope in Him because the Lord has been with me my whole life.” Cora is now a missionary teacher in Honduras. After an interview, she knew the Lord was “calling her to be a light” in the Honduran culture where there are not a lot of “gospel centered people.” She knows change starts with the children she’s impacting at the school. She has a vision to see these “children be the future leaders of Honduras and to lead Honduras into a spiritual revival.”
She is “forever grateful” for the “incredible impact Bay Share has had on my walk with the Lord and I would not be where I am today without going to Family Camp every year, without going to Junior Camp, and Junior High Camp and Primary Camp, and just soaking in the wisdom that has been taught to me and the Word of the Lord that has been taught to me. And that has had a part in me just wanting to do the same to others.”
