Project Profile

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
  • Sep12

    Chocó IG Cluster of Colombia

    Oral Bible stories will prepare the way for printed Scripture in the Chocó cluster languages.

    May God bless you with his special favor and wonderful peace as you come to know Jesus, our God and Lord better and better. (2 Peter 1:2-3, NLT)

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  • Jan28

    Choco Cluster of Columbia

    The rain and the snow come down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry. It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it. (Isaiah 55:10-1, NLT)

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