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Some say the church is a lost cause.We're watching it wake up.

For years Byron and Pamela Sommardahl did outreach in Honduras without seeing the people quietly asking to study the Bible. Now local churches are learning to open the Bible with them, and the work has outgrown the margins of two busy lives. Become a monthly partner, and help Byron and Pamela go all in.

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What we were missing

The harvest standing right in front of us

For years we did outreach in the mountains around Santa Ana and Ojojona, about an hour outside Tegucigalpa: medical brigades with our partner Clínica de Esperanza, houses, food for the poorest communities. It was good work. But in a crowd, everybody looks the same. We couldn't tell who was quietly searching for God, so the harvest looked thin.

So in 2024 we added one question to our prayer request form:

“Do you want to learn how to study the Bible?”

Most people checked yes. They had been asking all along, and we had been handing them a bag of groceries and a pat on the back. We decided never to let that harvest go unseen again.

Since May 2026 we have asked at every outreach, and the answer has held: most of the people we meet ask us to pray for them, and most of them ask to study the Bible.

“Then he told his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore, ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest field.’”
— Matthew 9:37–38 (OTB)

We had started praying that prayer in 2020. We did not expect the answer to be sitting in the pews of churches that already existed.

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What happened next

From serving crowds to equipping churches

2020–21
The pandemic and Byron's brush with pancreatic cancer change what matters most. Byron and Pamela begin praying for workers, 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. Byron and Pamela start a Discovery Bible Study in their own home with neighbors and family.
2024
The question goes on the form, and the hidden harvest shows. The home group sees its first baptisms and births a new group, led by new believers.
2025
Byron trains a church in Ojojona to open the Bible with someone. Its members take names from the outreach and start Bible studies in homes: people who had never led anything.
June 2026
A second church is trained, and it happens again: new disciple makers, new names shared, new groups.
July 2026
A full-day workshop trains pastors from all over Honduras. Two weeks later, a second trains more from a remote area in the west.
Summer 2026
Churches start asking for help faster than one family can answer them in its evenings.

Counted, not estimated

One year, before and after

July 2025
2
disciple-makers
1
Bible study group
2
churches collaborating
July 2026
100
disciple-makers
40
Bible study groups
75
churches collaborating

Not more events, more marketing or more mission trips: local churches whose own members could finally see the people asking, and had been shown how to open the Bible with them.

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The pattern we found

Identify. Equip. Connect.

We didn't design this. Looking back, God had been leading us into it one part at a time, and now it is the whole model, run again and again, church by church:

Identify
Spiritual need, through prayer and practical service. A prayer request taken at a medical brigade, a school clinic, a conversation on a porch — every one of them is a door.
Equip
The local church and ordinary Christians, trained to open God's Word for themselves and with someone else. No theology degree required — CoMission teaches a method any believer can use.
Connect
The people already identified, matched with the Christians now equipped to meet them, so they can open the Bible together.

It's a cycle, not a funnel. The disciples this produces go on to identify the next seeker themselves — which means every time around, the circle gets wider: more disciple-makers, more churches, not a narrowing to some final endpoint.

Why we're going all in

This is bigger than better outreach in Honduras

Somewhere in that summer, we realized what we were part of. People have told us the church is a lost cause: that it will never wake up and make disciples, and that it is better to start over without it.

We are watching the opposite. Jesus is calling His Bride back to repentance and obedience, and she is answering. When local churches could see the people around them asking to study the Bible, and were shown how to respond, they responded.

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 want to give our whole lives to it.

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Who's leading it

Byron and Pamela Sommardahl

Byron and Pamela have served together in the southern mountains of Honduras since 2011. Neither of them is medical — what they bring is everything around it: running operations, translating for the doctors, teaching community health, and training the local leaders who keep the work going long after a team flies home.

Byron founded CoMission, and leads its training, field, and disciple-making work across Honduras and the U.S. He's a graduate of Lipscomb University (Bible and Ministry, 2001), spent nine years in congregational and campus ministry before Honduras, and has been in the field at least six months of every year since 2011.

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A lot of people know Byron as the tech guy. For almost twenty years he built software companies while the Honduras work ran alongside, and their own businesses funded their family and most of the ministry. The company Byron founded is in good shape and runs without him day to day, which is exactly what you build a company to do. But this work has outgrown their margins. You can't serve this many churches in your evenings.

So for this season Byron and Pamela are going all in, full-time, until this can run without them too. Byron stops drawing his living from his business, and for the first time they are inviting people to partner with them.

A monthly gift covers what it actually takes for this family to live and work in two countries: housing, health coverage, travel between Tennessee and Honduras, and the ordinary cost of a household — so Byron and Pamela can give this work their full attention instead of splitting it with outside income.

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Gifts are made through Christian Ministry Alliance, CoMission's fiscal sponsor and a registered 501(c)(3). Their giving page is already designated for this work — you will not have to pick us out of a list — and it can be set to repeat monthly. CMA states that donations there are tax-deductible to the fullest amount allowed by law.

Byron and Pamela Sommardahl · CoMission · Santa Ana and Ojojona, Honduras

Gifts are tax-deductible through Christian Ministry Alliance, a 501(c)(3).