10 to 20 Year Vision for Bay View
Amended by The Board of Trustees: January, 2016
Final Approval of Amendments: March 23, 2016
BENEFITS OF A VISION
A vision provides a common goal for Bay View. It gives all of us something to move toward. It is a target for all committees, Trustees, and members, and a driving force for all strategic plans. Additionally, it tells the surrounding communities, as well as prospective members and potential visitors, what Bay View is hoping to become in the future.
THE VISION
Bay View offers unique experiences and opportunities to members and visitors alike in a beautiful historical summer place on Lake Michigan we call “home.” It is an exceptional, open, Christian Chautauqua community of intergenerational families that offers a wide variety of intellectually stimulating programs within the four programming areas of Education, Performing Arts, Recreation, and Worship and Religious Life.
Supported by a robust financial condition, Bay View is passionate about maintaining a supportive, caring and affordable community that values families, inspirational fellowship, spiritual growth, volunteerism, safety, and its environment.
Bay View is a very special place that serves to exemplify the merits of relaxation, revitalization, reconnection and restoration.

Bay View Association, Emmet County, Michigan. Bay View, Michigan, is one of the finest remaining examples of two uniquely American community forms, the Methodist camp meeting and the independent Chautauqua. Designed for the first purpose in 1876 as the country’s only romantically planned campground, and adapted for the second from 1885 to 1915, Bay View constitutes an extraordinarily well executed ideal Victorian community which, because of its continuing corporate existence and the ongoing collective values of its membership, remains in an excellent state of preservation of both form and spirit. Bay View is a major example of American religious, cultural, social, and educational ideals embodied in an artistically shaped community plan.