CoMission Spark

Fund one community, completely

A repeatable, self-sustaining framework of medical, health, and discipleship programming, run one rural community at a time around Santa Ana and Ojojona, Honduras, designed so Honduran believers carry the work forward long after the trucks pull out.

$4,950 funds one community, completely.

Every community gets the identical plan. Fund one, or fund several: pick a number below and see what it does.

The need

The gap we are trying to close

Santa Ana is about an hour outside Tegucigalpa. Keep going past it and the roads get worse and the villages get smaller, and there are places out there where a person can live an entire life and never once see a doctor.

Our closest partner is Clínica de Esperanza (Clinic of Hope) in Santa Ana, which has been treating patients since 2007. The clinic sees about 6,000 patients a year at its own location, plus roughly 1,200 more across ten-plus medical brigades a year into villages with no doctor of their own, and it also runs five-plus pediatric clinics a year in rural public schools so the children in those communities get looked at by a doctor. For many of them it is the only time anyone does. Those figures belong to the clinic, not to CoMission.

On nearly every brigade the doctors find two or three people carrying something life-threatening that had never been caught, because nobody had ever looked. Because we return to the same communities, we can go back and check.

What one ordinary day tells us

We are not building this on one unusual summer. An average medical brigade day sees about 120 patients, and this is what that ordinary day produces, the pattern we expect each funded community to repeat, event after event:

Count	Share of the 120	What it represents
120	100%	patients seen in an average one-day brigade
108	90%	complete an evangelism survey
96	80%	give a prayer request
78	65%	say they want to learn how to study the Bible
0		ordinary Christians in the pews equipped to open a Bible with one of them

Each figure is its own share of the same 120 people, not a narrowing funnel where each number is a subset that survived the one above it. Patient volumes are Clínica de Esperanza’s.

Those numbers describe the same 120 people from two directions: how ripe the harvest is, and how many laborers are standing in it. Nearly two of every three patients who come in for a checkup leave asking to be shown how to open a Bible, and in a typical congregation, the number of ordinary Christians equipped to sit down and do exactly that with them is zero. That is the harvest Jesus described: “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest” (Matthew 9:37–38; Luke 10:2). “Lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest” (John 4:35). The interest has never been scarce. The laborers have.

What happened when we started praying for laborers

We have been praying specifically for God to send laborers: Hondurans willing to sit down and open Scripture with the people who are asking. He has been answering, and these are the numbers behind that answer:

Milestone	Disciple-makers	Bible study groups	Churches collaborating
2025	2	1	2
End of July 2026	100	40	75

In 2025 there were two of us willing to open the Bible with a seeker, and one study, the one meeting in our own living room. By the end of July 2026, 75 churches were collaborating, 100 Hondurans were making disciples, and 40 Bible study groups were meeting. It wasn’t more marketing, more church services, more events, more mission trips, or more business as usual. The key has been making the harvest visible and impossible to ignore, and equipping ordinary Christians with a simple way to study the Bible for themselves and with others. When a local church sees, event by event, how many of its own neighbors are asking to study the Bible, it wakes the church up, and it is the church itself that then asks us to train its members to become disciple-makers. We are not recruiting laborers from outside. We are showing churches a harvest already standing in their own fields, and they are asking to be sent into it.

The short version

A gift marked for Spark supports real, useful service, one community at a time. We do the service well because it is worth doing on its own terms. And because the budget also funds training that equips each community’s own church to open the Bible with the seekers those events reveal, the local church itself is there before, during, and after every event: helping, building relationships, and, once trained, ready to sit down and study Scripture with the people it has come to know. That is what closes the gap between zero and a hundred, and it is what gives each project eternal weight, not just humanitarian good.

The framework

What CoMission Spark is

CoMission Spark is our repeatable, one-community-at-a-time framework, run in rural communities in the mountains around Santa Ana and Ojojona, in the department of Francisco Morazán, using the same project plan for every one. That plan is designed to be enough on its own, not the first of an annual series: the goal in every community is a self-sustaining chain reaction of discipleship, not a program to maintain. Once a community’s local church is equipped to open the Bible with its own neighbors and to run its own future events for finding them, the discipleship that follows belongs to that church to carry forward, not to us to keep funding. We may return to a community later with a medical brigade or another service event, but that would be a separate decision, not a renewal of this program.

A seeded community is not a place we visit once. Each community is visited many times over the course of its program, receives spiritual and life-skills training alongside the medical and health programming, and comes away with a stronger, better-equipped local church. We do not assign a single outside disciple-maker to a community: the disciple-makers come from within the local church itself, as a direct result of the training we provide. And the local church’s role does not start once training is finished: we enlist local church members to help facilitate the events themselves, building relationships and opening doors with the seekers who show up.

The process behind those numbers

The harvest math and the laborer growth you just read both come from the same repeating process: we identify spiritual need through prayer and service, equip the local church and ordinary Christians to study God’s Word for themselves and others, and connect the seekers we’ve identified with those Christians so they can open the Bible together and become disciples who multiply.

IdentifySpiritual need, through prayer and service.
EquipThe local church, to study God’s Word for themselves and others.
ConnectSeekers with those Christians, to open the Bible together.

What one community receives through CoMission Spark

Every service and gathering event below carries its own version of what the brigade’s evangelism survey does, most often just a prayer request taken with a phone number, which becomes an open door: a first contact with a seeker we didn’t know, or a stronger connection with one we already do. That is how CoMission Spark identifies and stays connected with the seekers the numbers above describe; the local-church training below is how it equips the laborers who open the Bible with them.

Medical brigade. Medical personnel and a working pharmacy brought into a village with no doctor of its own. Consultations, medication, and referral for anything we are not equipped to treat.
Pediatric clinic at the community’s public school. Every child in the school seen by a doctor, for most of them the only checkup they will get that year. Growth and vision screening, a brief mental wellness screening, a scoliosis screening, a balance check, and a written note home for anything that needs follow-up.
Community health promoter program. One or two community members identified before launch, embedded in every brigade and training event, and certified, including when to refer someone to an actual medical professional, with ongoing liaison access at the partner clinic afterward. Training, certification materials, and transportation only; never a salary or a stipend.
Community health trainings. Up to four sessions on water safety, food handling, nutrition, and basic hygiene, the material that keeps children alive between visits. The first two are taught in Spanish by Honduran trainers; the last two are led independently by the community’s own certified health promoter, a demonstrated transfer of capability, not just a promise of one.
Community gatherings. Two informal gatherings per community, a movie night or family night: a projector, a generator, food, and the whole village. Deliberately not a clinic and not a service. It is the event where people who would never walk into either one show up, and where relationships that started at a brigade get to continue in the open. The first is hosted by CoMission to show how it is done; the second is designed, staffed, and hosted entirely by the local church itself, with no CoMission team involved.
Local-church training in Bible study and discipleship. This is the line that answers the zero. The same congregation whose members received care is trained, twelve hours in total, delivered however best fits the church’s own schedule, from a single workshop to sessions spread across months, to open the Bible with the seekers those events reveal and to make disciples from them, turning a season of compassion into a harvest of laborers.

What lasts

What continues after the program ends

Every item above has a funded end date. None of what it produces does. This is what stays behind, at no cost to your gift, once our team has moved on to the next community:

Disciple-making, carried by the local church. This is the part that makes the rest of it compound, and the part nobody is paid for. There is no single outside disciple-maker assigned to a community: that role belongs to the local church itself, once trained. Every person who asks for prayer or for Bible study at any of the events above is handed to a member of that local church, not to a foreign team that flew home, and stays in the hands of that church long after the funded events end. Follow-up is the local church’s work, and we do not fund it. That is a design decision, not a shortfall.
Its own future events that identify seekers. Having watched CoMission host the first community gathering and having planned, staffed, and run the second one entirely on its own, the local church can keep holding gatherings like it, and running its own future identify-events more broadly, long after this program’s funded events are finished. The mechanism for finding seekers, not just the goodwill to look for them, is now the church’s own.
A certified local health promoter, still on call. The community’s own health promoter does not stop working when the funded trainings end: continuing to train the community, watching for health needs as they arise, staying in touch with the partner clinic and other local providers, and referring cases directly, without waiting for CoMission’s next scheduled visit.

How communities are chosen

Against five criteria: no resident medical provider; a functioning public school we can use; a road passable by our vehicles in both dry and rainy season; at least one local church in the community that meets on a weekly basis; and a documented water-quality or sanitation gap, not because this program fixes it, but because a community where we already have a foothold, a trained local church, and a track record is the easiest place to do that harder infrastructure work well, later. We already have far more candidate communities identified than any current funding covers, so a gift always has a community ready and waiting.

Why now

Why this can start next month, not in three years

This is not a request to fund the building of something. The machinery is already running. What is missing is the funding to point it, one community at a time, at the next communities in line.

15: years of continuous field work in Honduras, since 2011
~75: Honduran congregations collaborating, up from 2 in 2025
~100: Honduran disciple-makers active, up from 2 in 2025

A medical partner with a nineteen-year operating history. Clínica de Esperanza has been treating patients since 2007 and already runs ten-plus medical brigades and five-plus pediatric school clinics a year on its own. We are not standing up a medical program; we are buying additional capacity inside one that already works, staffed by medical personnel.

The local church, not a foreign payroll. The roughly one hundred people doing this work are members of local Honduran churches, serving in and near their own communities, not outside hires, and none of them on a foreign salary. This is why the discipleship follow-up line in the budget below costs $0. That is not us trimming a budget to hit a number. Follow-up is the local church’s work, and a church that is paid to disciple its own neighbors has been taught the wrong thing. This is the difference between a program that ends when the funding ends and one that does not.

A bilingual library and a complete training curriculum. 427 Bible studies, 39 study plans, and 16 classes, in English and Spanish, in written, printable, and video form, video specifically because many of the people we serve cannot read. Alongside the library sits a complete training curriculum that helps church members regain the ability to study the Bible for themselves and with others.

A tracking system. Every person who asks for prayer or study is entered into a system that assigns them to a disciple-maker and tracks whether the follow-up actually happened. That system is why we can give exact counts of disciple-makers, groups, and churches by month, and not “many.”

Evidence that it reproduces. Two years ago I started a Bible study in our living room. Eight people. Some of them started their own group. In that one, people came to faith and were baptized, and it has become a church, and that church has since begun discipling another family. Three generations, and I can name all three. We lead none of them. Hondurans do.
— Byron Sommardahl

The budget

One community, complete: $4,950

Line item	Cost
Medical brigade: 1Medical personnel, a working pharmacy, medications, supplies, and transport into the community	$2,000
Pediatric clinic at the public school: 1Growth, vision, mental wellness, scoliosis, and balance screening, and a written referral note home	$500
Community health promoter program1–2 promoters identified, embedded, and certified, with ongoing liaison access at the partner clinic; training, certification materials, and transportation only, never a salary or stipend	$500
Community health trainings: up to 4 sessionsWater safety, food handling, nutrition and hygiene; first 2 led by Honduran trainers, last 2 led independently by the community’s own certified health promoter	$900
Community gatherings: 2 sessionsThe first hosted by CoMission, the second planned and run entirely by the local church	$450
Local church training: Bible study & discipleship, 12 hoursTrains the local church’s own members to study Scripture and begin making disciples with the seekers this program identifies	$600
Discipleship follow-upCarried by the local church as its own work; $0 by design, not a gap in the budget	$0
Total per community	$4,950

Every dollar in this budget is program cost. No portion of it pays a salary, an overhead allocation, or a fundraising expense. Gifts are received through Christian Ministry Alliance, CoMission’s fiscal sponsor, whose administrative fee is covered by CoMission’s own unrestricted support, so that the full amount of your gift reaches the field. CoMission’s leadership is supported separately by individual donors and is not charged to this program.

Modular by design. $4,950 funds one community, completely, a unit small enough that you can fund a single community and be told exactly what happened in it, or fund several and multiply the same result. Many more communities are already identified and ready to follow, in identical $4,950 units, as funding allows.

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Accountability

What we will report, and how

We would rather publish a small honest number than a large vague one. Everything below is already being tracked; nothing here requires a new system.

What we count	Why it is the right measure
Local-church training deliveredHours held with each community’s church	Broken out from the events below, counted on its own.
Local church members trainedAttending to become disciple-makers	Whether the training reaches people, and how many.
Events deliveredBrigades, school clinics, health trainings, and community gatherings, by community and date	The commitment itself.
People seenPatients at brigades; children screened at school clinics; adults trained	Reach. Reported as actuals from clinic records, not estimates.
Serious conditions found and referredAnd whether the person actually reached a doctor	The referral is easy; the follow-through is the hard part, so we report on the follow-through.
People who asked for prayer or Bible study	The entry point. Voluntary, never required to receive care.
People who actually opened a Bible with someone	Whether interest becomes action. This is the one we are trying to move.
Bible study groups started	Whether trained disciple-makers are putting the training to use.
People now leading a study of their own	Multiplication. The only measure that tells you whether the work outlives the funding.

Reporting rhythm

Quarterly: a short written update: events held, people seen, and one named story with a photograph.
Annually: a full report against every number above, community by community, alongside the year’s actual spend against this budget.
Trends: every report shows movement across quarters and years, not just a snapshot at a single point in time.
On request: the underlying records. You’re welcome to ask for any figure we publish.

How we handle the numbers

Every figure we publish is dated and attributed. Clinic figures are reported as the clinic’s, not ours. We do not round up. When a number is smaller than we hoped, we publish the small number and say why, as we have done here with the brigade averages and the disciple-maker counts by month.

Who is behind this

CoMission and its sponsor

CoMission exists to help God’s people make disciples who multiply. We serve churches and ministries in Honduras and the United States with training, a bilingual Bible-study library, and a platform that connects people who want to study Scripture with people prepared to sit down and do it with them. We are deliberately interdenominational.

Byron Sommardahl: BA in Bible and Ministry, Lipscomb University, 2001. Nine years in congregational and campus youth ministry. Fourteen years building software companies whose Latin American engineering teams grew directly out of relationships formed on the mission field. Continuous field ministry in Honduras since 2011, at least six months of every year. Fluent in Spanish. As of 2026, full-time with CoMission.

Legal and financial standing. CoMission works under the umbrella of Christian Ministry Alliance (EIN 46-3408177) as its fiscal sponsor. Christian Ministry Alliance has been a registered 501(c)(3) since December 2014, with sponsored projects in more than twenty countries, Candid Platinum 2025, and a three-star Charity Navigator rating. Gifts are made to Christian Ministry Alliance, which receipts them; it states that gifts are tax-deductible to the fullest amount allowed by law.

Figures on this page are dated August 2026 and cover the twelve months ending July 2026 unless otherwise stated. Patient-volume figures belong to Clínica de Esperanza / Clinic of Hope and are attributed accordingly. Names of individuals are used only with permission.