Partners
Prayer Partners:
5 Current
5 Needed
Total Opportunity:
$331,549 Funded
$29,285 Needed
Demographics
- Location:
- undisclosed
- Speakers:
- 56,000
- Start Year:
- 2008
- End Year:
- 2012
Reports to Investors
Choco IG Cluster
Languages participating in this cluster:
- Mid Choco
- Mountain Choco
- Southern Choco
- Headwater Choco
- Lower Choco
The people of the Southern Chocóan language groups primarily live in the Pacific coastal jungles of South America. Rugged terrain and extensive river systems have contributed to the relative isolation of these ethnic groups. Mosquitoes, carrying malaria and dengue fever, thrive in this environment. In this isolated environment, many people are enticed or pressured into elicit drug production.
The Chocó believe evil spirits exercise power in their lives and that the dead often become demonic beings that haunt the living. Shamans serve as intermediaries to the spirits. The Catholic Church has had a very marginal influence in most of the Chocóan language groups. Because of the Bible translation process, there are some believers in each group.
Because the Chocó people live in an oral culture, this project will begin by helping partner groups produce accurate, oral retellings of Scripture. The second phase of work will build on this foundation by providing the community with the translated text of key Scriptures.
News from the Field
- Jul09
Choco of Colombia
56,000 speakers - The ethnic groups of the Southern Chocóan language family are located primarily in the Pacific coastal jungles of South America. Mother-tongue translators from five ethnic groups (Epena, Chamí, Baudó, Tadó and Basurudó) of the Chocó family of languages are laboring to make the Scriptures available to their people. Traditional Chocó religion teaches that evil spirits exercise power over their lives. Shamans serve as intermediaries to the spirits. The Catholic Church has had a very marginal influence in most of the Chocóan language groups.
- Dec28
Choco of Colombia
The people of the southern Chocoan language groups live primarily on the Pacific coast of South America. Rugged terrain and extensive river systems contribute to the relative isolation of these ethnic groups. Many people are enticed or pressured into elicit drug production, in areas where mosquitoes carry malaria and dengue fever. The Choco believe evil spirits have power; the dead often become demonic beings; and shamans are spirit intermediaries.