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Vision 15-500
Planting 500 Indigenous churches by 2015
Docordo-Choco
Ethnic group Wounaan
Seventeen years ago we went to the Wounaan tribe for the first time. We went on an exploration to find out how much of the Gospel was known in that area, if even at all. All the communities we visited were the same; there were no Christians. We were not received well into these communities because in its great majority they had accepted a sect called the "black Christ". In one of the remote communities we found Cercelino, the only Christian who against all odds tried to maintain his faith from a message he once received.
Continuing Crisalinco's Vision 15-500
The panorama for the Wounaan today is different; the work of God began to bear fruits. In the seminar we held there on July 1 - 4, 2009 we had 75 leaders: missionaries, pastors, new believers in Christ and 25 children. In this seminar we found that they needed more knowledge about the power of God. Some of them, when not receiving a quick answer from God, (as far as their health) return to consult with the witch doctor. Its not easy them for to leave their ancestral practices.
We give thanks to God for people like Celia and Freddy, who along with their two small daughters and four Wounaan pastors, are in these communities helping the brothers in the faith and equipping new believers. The Wounaan natives are located in the lower San Juan region of Choco, in 27 communities. Only four of these communities have a church. After traveling for two days in a car, we took a canoe to Docordo because it was a central point for us to go and for the Indigenous to come.
The poverty, diseases, lack of hygiene and the malnutrition are the negative factors in the Wounaan tribe and in this region of the country. The Wounaan women do not use shoes and many of them almost cannot walk because of their diseases and injured feet. We are praying for donations to purchase rubber boots for the Wounaan woman. There are communities in the Wounaan tribe that have not heard the Gospel.
