About CoMission
A ministry that grew into an ecosystem
CoMission — the spelling is intentional. The ‘Co’ expresses partnership, co-laboring, and shared participation in the mission of God. We help God's people make disciples who multiply.
Our mission
We equip believers to make disciples who multiply. CoMission does it by identifying spiritual seekers, equipping believers to become disciple makers, and connecting the two through tools, training, coaching, and technology-enabled systems.
Our vision
CoMission exists to see God's people joyfully take part in the Great Commission: ordinary believers opening the Bible with the people God is drawing near, and local churches full of disciples who make disciples.
The ministry story
From serving crowds to equipping churches
Founded and led by Byron and Pamela Sommardahl.
Byron Sommardahl
Byron leads CoMission and built the platform behind it. He has spent years working out what actually helps a church make disciples who go on to make disciples — and what only looks like it does. He writes most of what you have read on this site.
Pamela Sommardahl
Pamela carries the relational half of the work in Honduras — the clinics, the intake conversations, the follow-up that turns a prayer request into someone reading Scripture with a neighbour. Most of the stories on this site started with a conversation she had.
- 1998
Byron begins full-time ministry, with a background in church work, youth ministry, worship ministry, and missions.
- 2009
Byron takes his first trip to Honduras.
- 2010–11
Byron meets Pamela in 2010; they marry in 2011 and begin years of ministry together in Santa Ana, Honduras.
- Years of service
Medical brigades, house building, and food distribution in the poorest communities. The work was good, but in a crowd everyone looks the same: no one could tell who was quietly searching for God, so the harvest looked thin.
- 2020–21
The pandemic and Byron's brush with pancreatic cancer change what matters most. Byron and Pamela begin praying for laborers (Matthew 9:37–38) and refocus outreach on one purpose: finding the people God is already drawing.
- 2022–23
PrayQR carries prayer requests to believers who pray and send their prayers back, and paper prayer forms follow at events. Byron and Pamela start a Discovery Bible Study in their home with neighbors and family.
- 2024
One question is added to the form: “Do you want to learn how to study the Bible?” Most of the people coming to outreach events had been asking for exactly that all along. The home group sees its first baptisms and births a new group led by new believers.
- 2025
Byron trains a church in Ojojona in Discovery Bible Study and mentors leaders in Tegucigalpa. Outreach contacts are handed to that church's new disciple makers, and new groups are born, led by ordinary Christians walking through a door outreach had already opened.
- 2026
A second church is trained in June. In July a full-day workshop trains pastors from all over Honduras, and weeks later a second trains more from a remote area of Western Honduras. A growing library of Bible studies and classes, and tools that connect disciple makers with seekers, help churches do the same.
- Summer 2026
Watching local churches respond, the team recognizes the pattern God had been leading them into (identify, equip, connect) and sees that the mission is far larger than better outreach in Honduras: it is helping local churches live out the Great Commission together.
Why we haven't given up on the church
Some have told us the church is a lost cause: that it will never wake up and make disciples, and that it would be better to start over with house churches and leave local congregations to their consumerism.
We see something different. Jesus is calling His Bride to repentance and obedience. When local churches in Honduras could see the people around them already asking to study the Bible, and were given the tools to respond, they responded. Groups that meet in homes are part of how this works (our own first Bible study met in our living room), but we will not leave the congregation behind.
So this is the work we believe God has given us: helping local churches live out the Great Commission together, in Honduras and beyond. We are glad to be part of His restorative work in local churches.
God is already at work. Spiritual hunger is real. The church must be better prepared to respond.
What makes us different
Our core distinctives
We do mission with others.
We solve both sides of the disciple-making problem.
We support multiple roles, not just one.
We are modular.
We integrate compassion and discipleship.
We focus on multiplication.
Financial accountability
The questions a missions committee asks before it calls
You should not have to start a conversation to find out how a ministry handles money. Here is what we can tell you on a public page, and how to get the rest.
- Gifts are received and receipted by Christian Ministry Alliance. CoMission works under the umbrella of Christian Ministry Alliance — a registered 501(c)(3) since 2014 — as its fiscal sponsor. They receive the gift, issue the receipt and disburse the funds, which means the name on a receipt is theirs rather than ours, and an organization outside this one sees where the money goes.
- Nobody decides alone. Decisions about how support is used are made together rather than by one person, and against the plan a partner church was shown — not reallocated quietly when something else looks more urgent.
- Support goes to the work, and we say so on the page that asks for it. Support given to a particular piece of the work goes to that work rather than into a general pot, and which work it is gets said on the page that asks — not discovered afterwards.
- Two bases, and it is a stewardship fact rather than a pitch. We work from Honduras and from Tennessee, and Central American churches are served from Honduras. Serving Honduras from Honduras costs a fraction of flying in from the States — which means the same support funds materially more than it otherwise would.
- The reporting is the accountability. Every quarter, what happened and what didn’t, with the numbers we hold ourselves to. A ministry that only reports its good quarters is not reporting.
Happy to send our financial and tax details to any church that asks — the entity, the oversight, and the financials themselves. Ask us for them.
Your next step
Put the whole cycle to work
Identify, Equip and Connect — a cycle, not a funnel. The guide walks you through setting up all three, with a checklist for your situation: on your own, in a small group, across a church, or through a ministry.
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