First Baptist Church Mother'S Day Out & Christian Preschool is a church daycare daycare located at 400 W Center St, Kyle, Texas TX. Find contact info, location details, and similar daycares nearby.
What Parents Say
First Baptist Church Mother's Day Out & Christian Preschool in Kyle, Texas has experienced significant controversy. While the program was previously praised for providing a warm, welcoming, Christian-based educational environment with loving teachers, it was abruptly shut down in January without notice to families or staff, displacing hundreds of families and leaving approximately 30 teachers without jobs.
My family went for the first time last week and it was a very warm and welcoming church. Skews a little bit older, but it felt like church, not a rock concert, and we really appreciated that. Give them a try, if you're curious. Ignore the bad reviews. Someone posted somewhere about them making changes somewhere online and they got review bombed by a bunch of people who never went there.
Our family and countless others have been heartbroken, blindsided and utterly confused by the sudden decision to close First Baptist Kyle’s long standing Mother’s Day Out program without warning. For well over a decade this program provided a safe, welcoming environment for little ones to attend a Christian-based educational program. I have had multiple children go through this program and it has been beautiful to see the ways in which they have thrived — in Christ and in fellowship with their peers and teachers. I had to explain to my daughter that she will never have the opportunity to step foot in this place that has been like a second home to her because the new pastor and an “advisory committee” felt that shutting the program down was what is best for the church and community. How can that be? I am curious to know what the congregation feels about this. Countless teachers and families within the community are now struggling to find jobs and alternative childcare with zero notice. I am disgusted and so very disappointed in the manner in which this was handled by the pastor and the church. They don’t care. If they did, there would have been direct communication from the pastor to the families with children attending MDO. There hasn’t been. If they cared, they would have provided more time for staff and families to find alternative accommodation instead of displacing so many people in the community they claim they want to better serve. Instead, they kicked us to the curb. It’s clear we don’t and never did matter to the new church leadership. A church that once stood so well respected within this community has fallen so far from grace. Such a shame.
This church used to be home to a wonderful Mother's Day Out Program. The teachers were warm, welcoming and every child was loved, included and cared for. Our son spent his preschool years there and came home everyday singing about Jesus and love. In January a new pastor took over the church and decided he did not like the way things were going. He immediately shut down the Shepard House which was a food pantry where the community could come and be blessed with food and supplies. He then fired a teacher who was not the same religion as him. Lastly, he shut down the wonderful Christian preschool with no notice to the staff or families. This put hundreds of families in a bad place with no childcare lined up and close to 30 teachers and staff with no jobs. This program was warm, loving, inclusive, friendly and fun. Now this church feels discriminatory, cold and unwelcoming. We will no longer attend any services and our son will not attend Vacation Bible School there ever again.
I wish I didn’t have to write this review but after the display of selfishness from Pastor Kevin over the past month, I have to share so people know the kind of man he is. First Baptist was known for years as a loving church with a fantastic Christian preschool. Pastor Kevin decided to close down the preschool, go out of town, fire teachers, and leave families without childcare all within the same week. If you’re looking for a pastor that is willing to meet with parents, communicate with his staff, and care for his community, you definitely do NOT want to come here.
This is a church that cares more about their own agenda rather than their community and employees. What a shame. To discontinue a thriving childcare program with two days notice, displacing 200 children, their families and an entire daycare staff, doesn’t seem very Christ like to me. The lead pastor made zero effort to come meet the families and truly learn about the program before deciding to end it. That is disappointing to say the least. I find it interesting that the original sermon that included the announcement to end the program is now missing from the website. This program meant so much to us. My child was well loved and cared for there and she learned so much about God’s love. We cherished every one of her teachers. This is a heavy loss for our family and so many others.