Daybreak Proposal

To the Daybreak Leadership,

It’s been such a joy and delight to be meeting on your campus these past three months! We had been praying that the Lord would open the right door for us to be able to continue our program on a beautiful campus that had a field and nature walk accessibility for our Wednesdays. We’ve felt so welcomed and supported at Daybreak. Thank you!!

As we continue to listen to where the Lord may be leading us next year, we have discerned a growing need for our unique kind of education here in Kailua. We are anticipating a 50% growth next year in our student body— 30 additional students— and the addition of two new classes and 3 new teachers.

We are excited how the Lord has blessed us, but we are curious how He will provide space for our growing ministry.

The following is a proposal exploring the possibility of pressing into a deeper ministry partnership with you at Daybreak. 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

Dcn. David Chung - Chairman of the SBH Board

Dcn. Ben Moore - Program Director

Jessica Fant - All Saints Parent Representative

Fr. Mark Brians - All Saints Clergy Representative

Marissa Mueller - All Saints Parish Council Representative

Kelly Payne - Christ the Foundation Parent Representative

Ann Ayling - Christ the Foundation Parish Council Representative

Proposal

  • Increased Facilities Usage

    Starting in August 2022, we’d like to explore the possibility of:

    • Using the Daybreak Campus Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays 7:30am-3pm.

    • Using all 5 classrooms, sanctuary, lanai, and cry room on the Daybreak Campus

    • Using part of a storage room to keep a printer, additional classroom tables we would bring, and a storage rack of bins.

  • Increased Rent Amount

    With more usage, we would like to pay more than our current $150/day rate.

    As we grow next school year, we are able to pay up to $175/day for the three days we’d be on campus.

    That comes to $17,850.00 for the 2022-2023 school year. We would pay this in 10 monthly increments of $1,785 per month.

  • Facilities Cleaning

    For the 2022-23 School year, we have hired one of our staff specifically to do 40 minutes of daily cleaning and tidying of the facilities after we have finished classes. This work will be in addition to the daily chores the students do.

Revised Details

 

Revised on May 20th, 2022

  • After speaking with Pastor Sean on May 18th, it sounded like the Daybreak campus has two prior commitments: Monday morning ukulele lessons on the lanai, and a monthly event on Tuesdays to the houseless community.

  • We would be more than happy to share the campus with other church groups like we currently do during your staff meetings on Wednesdays.

  • We are happy to relocate whatever class we on the lanai Monday mornings to free up that space for the ukulele lessons on the lanai.

  • After discussion with our Board of Trustees on May 19th, we are all comfortable with making accomodations for us not to meet the day of your houseless event. We’ve discussed doing an Enrichment Day on the Tuesday once a month during the houseless community event. We have already begun to think of ways we can create an Enrichment Day team of parents and staff to plan monthly excursions, service projects, house events, hikes, beach days, etc. so that we would not be on campus on those monthly Tuesday events.

  • We feel like we can definitely be able to work around both those events!

  • 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. We want to be able to work around the wonderful partnership you have with the YMCA doing after-school programs for the community.

Why now?

 

We continue to grow. At present, we are looking at having a 92% retention rate with our current families, and adding an additional 30 students next school year. We will have about 80 students, 34 families, 12 teachers, and a K-12 academic program.

All this growth prompts us to consider new facilities arrangements to serve our students and teachers better. Our current two-location schedule— going back and forth between One Love on Mondays/Tuesdays and Daybreak on Wednesdays— is working but is not ideal.

Additionally, we are growing out of our space at One Love and will have difficulty finding enough classroom space at their facility.

For the long term sustainability and growth of our program, we would ideally like to find a single campus as we facilitate more students, more classes, more teachers, and more events. The two campus schedule will becoming an increasing challenge.

Ministry Partners

Daybreak Church already has a reputation in the community for partnering with other ministries by sharing their campus: BSF, YMCA, Inspire Church, and now SBH. You are a hub of Kingdom work on the Windward side, not just on Sunday mornings, but throughout the entire week.

Saint Benedict Hall would like to continue that partnership in stewarding your campus for gospel ministry to the community.

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?

  • In the post-pandemic era, 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. We spend significant time each week at the Ulupō Heiau studying and observing God’s beautiful Creation.

  • 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!