Have Byron come
Have Byron come talk to your church
Byron and Pamela Sommardahl have served in the southern mountains of Honduras since 2011. Byron is in Tennessee part of the year, and he'd be glad to come.
What Byron can do
Four shapes, and any of them works
Speak on a Sunday
A sermon, or a few minutes in the service — whatever fits how your congregation gathers. He'll work to your order of service, not his.
Sit with your missions committee
An hour on a Tuesday night, with questions. This is the one most committees find most useful, and the one Byron is most often asked for.
Teach a workshop
Half a day on making disciple makers — how an ordinary believer learns to open the Bible with someone who is not yet a believer.
Do any of it over video
If travel doesn't work, it doesn't have to. Byron has done all three of the above from Honduras, and a committee meeting over video works better than most people expect.
What Byron would talk about
The four things Byron is actually useful on
You can pick one, or tell him what your church is wrestling with and he'll shape it around that.
- How ordinary believers learn to open the Bible with someone — the whole method, in plain terms, with the part people find hardest.
- What he's watched happen in Honduras since 2011, including the years where nothing much did.
- What it actually takes for a church to build disciple makers rather than just attenders.
- And honestly — what hasn't worked. There is more of this than anyone expects, and it is usually the part a room remembers.
What it costs you
Nothing.
If Byron is already traveling, nothing at all. If he's not, he'll tell you plainly what getting there involves and you can decide — but there is no fee, no honorarium expected, and no minimum.
Byron isn't coming to make an ask from the pulpit. If your missions committee wants to talk afterwards, he'd be glad to. If they don't, he'll have had a good Sunday with your church.
Ask Byron to come
Tell us what you have in mind
A date, a rough one, or just “sometime when he's stateside”. Tell us your church and what you'd want Byron to speak on, and we'll work out the rest with you.
Send us a note
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Want to know what Byron would be talking about first? Read the field report.