Kailua Baptist Church Proposal
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. Beginning in August of 2027 we are anticipating an additional 23% growth in our current student body— currently we have 114 students enrolled and we’re projecting 140 students by August 2027.
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 our K-6 program, we are exploring starting a second campus for our grades 7-12.
The following is a proposal exploring the possibility of pressing into a deeper ministry partnership with you at Kailua Baptist Church. We look forward to continued discussion in the coming weeks to discern how we can continue to work together.
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 Board of Trustees
Dan Douglass - Chairman of the SBH Board
Dcn. Ben Moore - Program Director
Ashley Dart - Dean of Culture
Meghan Helton - All Saints Parent Representative
Fr. Chris Bruno - All Saints Clergy Representative
Dcn. James Mueller - All Saints Clergy Representative
Josiah Marquez - Christ the Foundation Parish Council Representative
Monika Wurlitzer - Parent Representative
Proposal
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Facilities Usage
Starting in August 2027, we’d like to explore the possibility of:
Using the KBC Campus Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays 7:30am-3pm.
Using 3-5 classrooms, sanctuary, and occasional use of the court on the KBC Campus
Using part of a storage room to keep additional classroom tables we would bring, and a storage rack of bins.
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Rent Amount
We would like to propose to pay $175 per day for the three days we’d be on campus.
That comes to $17,850.00 for the 2027-2028 school year. We would pay this in 10 monthly increments of $1,785 per month.
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Facilities Cleaning
For the 2027-28 School year, we will hire one of our staff to do 120 minutes of weekly cleaning and tidying of the facilities after we have finished classes. This work will be in addition to the daily chores the students do.
Other Details
We would be more than happy to share the campus with other church or homeschool groups.
We have already made plans to sync our academic calendar with the Hawaii DOE calendar for next school year, so that all our breaks sync up with when the public schools take their breaks.
Why now?
We continue to grow. At present, we are projecting increased enrollment over the coming years:
114 for the 2025-2026 SY
123 for the 2026-2027 SY
140 for the 2027-2028 SY
151 for the 2028-2029 SY
156 for the 2029-2030 SY
163 for the 2030-2031 SY
All this growth prompts us to consider a second upper school facilities arrangements to serve our students and teachers better. Our partnership with Daybreak Church is secure and healthy. We are planning to continue to host our K-6 program at Daybreak indefinitely.
But we are getting close to our capacity at Daybreak with around 120 students, and we are prompted to explore a second campus.
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.
What does Saint Benedict Hall provide to the Windward side community?
An education that is…
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Christian- Enculturating truth, beauty, and goodness
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Classical- Rooted in Hawaii & the Great Conversation
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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.
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!
