Kailua Baptist Church

Rental Exploration

To the Kailua Baptist Church Leadership,

It’s been such a joy and delight to have a partnership relationship over the last several years! We’ve so appreciated your willingness to allow our program to occasionally use your facilities for things like our annual school board strategic planning meeting, staff Christmas party, and high school transcript training night. We’ve felt so welcomed and supported at KBC. Thank you!!

As we continue to listen to where the Lord may be leading us in the next few years, we have discerned a growing need for our unique kind of education here in Kailua. Our program provides a learning environment for homeschool families three days a week for families from 20 different churches across Oahu. This year we have 129 students enrolled in our program, and we are projecting to grow 4% next year (27/28 SY) and an additional 10% (28/29 SY) the following year.

We are excited how the Lord has blessed us, but we don’t know yet how He will go before us to provide space for our growing ministry. While we are planning to continue to partner with Daybreak for most of our classrooms, we are exploring having a second campus of 3-4 classrooms for our Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, and possibly 3rd Grade starting in August 2027.

The Saint Benedict Hall Board of Trustees has delegated a SBH Facilities Team as a sub-committee to begin conversations and explore options for a second campus. The SBH Facilities Team had our first meeting on August 24, 2026 to review our situation and options. The team would like to begin conversations with Kailua Baptist Church about a possible partnership and use of three classrooms spaces starting in August 2027.

It’s important to us that we partner with a church that we have shared ministry convictions and are in theological alignment. Unfortunately this severely limits our potential partnership with churches along Kailua Road’s “Church Row”. KBC is one of only a handful of churches we would feel comfortable partnering with in the area.

Daybreak sees SBH as a ministry partner, aligned in our convictions to give homeschool parents the gift of our educational model, and has kept our rent well below market value. That blessing is passed on to our parents who aren’t paying for high overhead for the operations of our program. SBH pays Daybreak $3,106.90 per classroom space per year. We are currently using 10 classroom spaces ($31,069 for the year). SBH could at least match this $3,106.90 per classroom space per year amount with KBC, and would be interested in knowing what it would take it make it work financially. Usage of the sanctuary and a storage room would also be helpful.

All our classroom usage is temporary each week— we set up all our classrooms on Monday morning and break down all our classrooms and reset the campus each Wednesday so that Daybreak can fully use all the campus when we aren’t there. All our “stuff” can fit into a single storage room Thursday-Sunday. We would be happy to have this kind of arrangement if were to be able to use the KBC facilities. And we would be more than happy to share the campus with other church or homeschool groups.

We also have made arrangement with Daybreak to hire a facilities cleaning crew that cleans all the space that SBH uses at Daybreak each week. We would also be happy to this kind of arrangement at KBC. In addition, we have general liability insurance at Daybreak and would assume all the costs of getting the requisite insurance for KBC.

We are interested in beginning this conversation to explore the possibility of renting from KBC starting in August 2027, with the understanding that it will likely take months, as you determine availability and feasibility. But we wanted to begin the conversation sooner than later.

Again we are so thankful and grateful for your partnership so far, and we’ve been so blessed to have like-minded brothers and sisters in Christ to share in the gospel work of nurturing children.

In gratitude,

The Saint Benedict Hall Facilities Team:

Dan Douglass - Chairman of the SBH Board

Dcn. Ben Moore - Program Director

Dcn. James Mueller - SBH Treasurer

Logan Sutton - Vice Chairman of the SBH Board

Jason Zeager - SBH Parent (President, Pacific Business Funding)

Kaleo Agsalda - All Saints Parishioner (Principal Broker, Pacific Realty; Founder, Hawaii Institute of Real Estate)

Why now?

 

We continue to grow. At present, we are projecting increased enrollment over the coming years:

  • 135 for the 2027-2028 SY

  • 149 for the 2028-2029 SY

  • 150 for the 2029-2030 SY

  • 161 for the 2030-2031 SY

All this growth prompts us to consider a second campus and additional facilities arrangements to serve our students and tutors better. Our partnership with Daybreak Church is secure and healthy. We are planning to continue to host the majority of our program at Daybreak indefinitely, but are needing a second campus for 3 classrooms initially and 5 classrooms by 2030.

Ministry Partners

We recognize Kailua Baptist Church as an important Ministry Partner of Saint Benedict Hall as we share in a common Gospel ministry to our community. We have had several KBC families participate in SBH over the years and look forward to a deeper partnership in the years to come.

SBH Christmas Staff Party at KBC in December 2024

What does Saint Benedict Hall provide to the Windward side community?

An education that is…

  • Christian- Enculturating truth, beauty, and goodness

  • Classical- Rooted in Hawaii & the Great Conversation

  • Collaborative- Restful balance between school and home

What’s the value of a Christian collaborative educational ministry for our Community?

  • At SBH we hear every week how parents are more open than ever to alternative forms of education for their children. We are pioneering a new model that tries to take the best of both school and homeschool setting and blend them into a more affordable, dynamic, and high quality education.

  • The Church has a tremendous opportunity in such a time as this to partner with parents to provide this alternative. Christian education begins and ends with the truth that Christ as the King of ALL of reality— history, science, art, nature, literature, and language. It’s our conviction that to understand the world deeply means to recognize the Creator and Sustainer of that world. See the SBH Statement of Faith and the SBH Statement on Marriage Gender and Sexuality

  • Classical education roots our children in the best of our civilization and prepares them to stand on the shoulders of the great thinkers of the past. This begins by understanding our roots and heritage here in Hawaii. We spend the first three years of our program with Hawaiian studies classes teaching our students about the unique history, culture, language, plants, and animals that we are blessed to live in.

  • Full-time private education continues to become more costly, pricing out many families. A collaborative model gives families the resources, flexibility, community, and structure to thrive at a reasonable price point. It can be the best of both a private and homeschool education!