CDO's Next Chapter: A Partnership with North Texas Love and Care

Dear FUMC Family, 

Our church has a long history of addressing social needs in our community.  Our location has given birth to the City Recycling Program, Interfaith Ministries, and our beloved Children’s Day Out daycare. 

CDO started over 40 years ago, providing stay at home parents a few hours free of childcare while their children were safe in a nurturing and learning environment.  As our facilities grew to add the East Building, so our CDOexpanded into a full-time childcare program, providing quality childcare to our community. 

As a congregation, we have taken seriously the call to minister to our fellow members and our surrounding community.  Post-COVID, CDO has struggled to recover from the shutdown.  We now face the reality of closing our childcare without options for our parents, children, and community.   

North Texas Love and Care, a non-profit childcare provider, is interested in using our childcare space to operate a very high-quality service to our community.  They are currently at Faith UMC and are ready to expand their services to our area.  Many of their families come from as far away as Sanger and Krum, and they are interested in a closer option within the NTLC community.  Faith UMC greatly appreciates the service to their community through NTLC. 

North Texas Love and Care has a waiting list, and this time presents a perfect opportunity for their expansion, service to more families, and continued quality childcare at FUMC.  By transitioning CDO to NTLC, we can continue our legacy of meeting the needs of our community.  We would lease the space to NTLC to use and they would operate the program fully, providing state licensing requirements, insurance, and payroll. CDO parents on the CDO Advisory Board are very excited about this opportunity. 

Many of our families participated in CDO in the past.  Several of these children went on to become teachers at their former daycare.  Our legacy of serving families and children with quality care is one of the jewels in our history. Our Children’s Day Out Program will close at the end of December.  It is our hope that we will seize the opportunity to have childcare at FUMC through North Texas Love and Care. 

In Christ, 

Raegan Gilliland, Co-Pastor 
Tim Crouch, Lay Leader 
Jeff Springer, Trustees Chair 
Gloria Thomas, CDO Advisory Board Member 
Gail Warren, Trustees Member 
Rhonda Clark, SPRC