Hi! I’m Mrs. Shay

This will be my fourth year teaching the littlest of bees  at Bethany Busy Bee. 

My love of Bethany Busy Bee began back in 2013, when I walked into the doors to ask if space was available for my then 3 year old, Cameron. I walked in as an unbeliever in Christ, just needed a loving and close place for my kid to go for a few hours a day. If that meant teaching and telling my son about somebody we never talked about- so be it. I enrolled him anyway and threw away the Bible ABC papers that came home. 

Little did I know that God knew exactly the place I needed to be and the people I needed to be surrounded by, for what would eventually be the scariest time of my life. Cameron had a cancer diagnosis just weeks after starting preschool and it forever changed my life, but now I see that it was for the good. 

I asked God to show me His presence the day of the diagnosis and He didn’t waste a second in revealing to me what is now the best relationship of my life. Not sure how I got through so many years without Him! As of two years ago, all three of my boys have gone through Bethany Busy Bee and the love poured into them all was like nothing I have seen before.

My kid is now a healthy and thriving teenager and I am forever and ever grateful for the family that is under the Busy Bee roof – both staff and all the families I have been blessed to know and teach their littles.

Giving kids the opportunity to learn of Jesus’ love for them while in school is such a wonderful way to start their educational foundation. If we can fill their whole body, mind and soul up with scripture in our few years with them, I’m confident that when they leave Bethany Busy Bee they will still hear our songs, remember our stories and live in His way, His truth and His light because now I know just how important it is!