Support Byron & Pamela Sommardahl · Missionaries in Honduras
In the mountains around Santa Ana and Ojojona, the harvest was never the problem.The workers were.
Byron and Pamela Sommardahl lead CoMission's work in rural Honduras: identifying the people already asking for a Bible study, equipping local churches to meet them, and connecting the two. Become a monthly partner, and keep them there, full-time.
Where this happens
Rural Santa Ana and Ojojona
Santa Ana is about an hour outside Tegucigalpa. Keep going past it, into Santa Ana and neighbouring Ojojona, and the roads get worse and the villages get smaller — aldeas and caseríos where a person can live an entire life and never once see a doctor.
This is where Byron and Pamela have worked since 2009, alongside their partner Clínica de Esperanza in Santa Ana. The need there is both physical and spiritual, and it doesn't come apart cleanly — it never has.
Physical need
More than four in ten households in Ojojona have no piped water, and fewer than half have basic sanitary services. Santa Ana's own poverty rate runs above 40%. Some patients walk three or four hours to reach a doctor — not by car, on foot, and then by whatever comes along. On nearly every medical brigade, doctors find two or three people carrying something life-threatening that had never been caught before, simply because nobody had ever looked.
Spiritual need
On an average day at one of those brigades, about 120 people come through. Roughly 80% of them give a prayer request. Nearly two out of three say they want to learn how to study the Bible. And in the church nearest to them, the number of ordinary believers equipped to sit down and actually do that is usually zero.
“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)
That's the gap this work exists to close. Not interest — it's never been in short supply here. Workers.
This is what your monthly gift reaches.
Become a monthly partnerHow we're closing that gap
Identify. Equip. Connect.
This is the whole model, and it's the same three things, run again and again, community by community:
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.
This is what you're funding.
Become a monthly partnerWhat it's producing
What's happened since we started praying for workers
Julai 2025
- 2
- disciple-makers
- 1
- Bible study group
- 0
- churches collaborating
Julai 2026
- 100
- disciple-makers
- 40
- Bible study groups
- 75
- churches collaborating
It wasn't more events, more marketing, or more mission trips. It was making the harvest visible enough that a local church couldn't look away from it — and then equipping that church's own members to walk into it.
Help us keep this going.
Become a monthly partnerWho's leading it
Byron and Pamela Sommardahl
Byron and Pamela have served together in the southern mountains of Honduras since 2009. 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 2009.
This is the whole ask
Become a monthly partner
For years, Byron and Pamela funded this work themselves — their businesses covered their family and most of the ministry, and when people offered to help, they said no, they didn't need it. That was true then. As of 2026, Byron is full-time with CoMission, and it isn't true anymore.
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.
- $25
- $50
- $100
- $250
Any amount helps, at whatever interval you can sustain. These are simply the four we are asked about most.
Prefer a one-time gift instead? Give once ↗ — every amount helps, whatever you can do.
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).