Leadership training can take many forms. For Mark and Serena Dunbar, leadership training means investing their lives, including their accumulated knowledge and experience, into the lives of others. Their goal is to equip Hondurans to become the ones to train leaders in their stead.

The Dunbars are veteran missionaries in Honduras having served in Tegucigalpa, the capital city, and El Sembrador since 1989. Mark, a missionary kid from Honduras, received a B.S. in Business Administration from Portland State University and has served in various capacities in the mission office as Field Treasurer, Assistant Field Director, and most recently as director of El Sembrador. Currently, Mark serves as Acting Field Director in Terry Hawk’s absence and works closely with “Alcanzar”, the humanitarian branch of the Honduran Holiness Church. His dream is to help Hondurans in local churches throughout the country start enterprises through micro-financing and small business training.

Serena, a native of Oregon, has played a vital role in local church ministries as a discipleship leader, as Sunday school director, and as a leader in women and family studies. She also served on the board of Los Pinares, a K-12 bilingual school in Tegucigalpa. Serena, who holds a B.S. in Secondary Education from Indiana Wesleyan University, most recently taught in the El Sembrador Bible Institute and was chairman of the board for Instituto Tecnico El Sembrador Horeb (Christian high school on campus). She currently serves on the Honduran Holiness Church Theological Education Committee where her goal is to organize a program to train Hondurans to serve in other cultures as missionaries, as well as, to promote Christian education curriculum through workshops across the country equipping church leaders with improved teaching methods.

The Dunbars are the parents of three children: Charith, 21, is a senior at Asbury College where she is majoring in Spanish and English in Secondary Education; Duane, 19, is a sophomore at LeTourneau University studying engineering and is proud of being born in Honduras; Serenita (Tita), 16, is in 11th grade at Academia Los Pinares in Tegucigalpa and loves “hanging” with her Honduran friends. Our greatest joy in serving as missionaries in Honduras is seeing God use Honduran leaders to surpass our greatest dreams.