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people assume the church\u2019s vision as well as the jobs assigned to them within and outside of the church precincts.\u000AIn these churches women have more liberty to be leaders. Some of them lead women groups, children\u2019s ministries, worship groups, family groups and other existing projects. A woman informant said that the role of the woman has been important in founding these churches. Many of them are founding members and participate in the financial support and diffusion of these churches. The pastors\u2019 wives and other ladies are recognized as pastors and exercise open leadership in different areas of the work although under the authority of the senior pastor. According to Garrard-Burnett in Austin Texas there are two churches which were started by Guatemalans affiliated to the \u2018Iglesia Pr\u00EDncipe de Paz\u2019 and Elim churches that are led by two female pastors.57 [The role of the lay people in these churches will be amplified in Chapter five].\u000AE. THEOLOGICAL EMPHASES\u000ANeo-Pentecostal beliefs are the result of a mixture of doctrines from the Pentecostal world, some doctrines from the Protestant Reformation and their own emphasis. Neo-Pentecostals are closer to the Pentecostal doctrines than to that of the historic churches. Wynarczyk shows that at the theological level NEOP sits better on Pentecostal roots and on Pentecostal topics but he emphasizes that some of them gravitate towards the new Neo-Pentecostal character (Wynarczyk et.al. 1995:9). Here both continuity with, and breaking away from Pentecostal traditions can be seen. Samuel Berberi\u00E1n affirms that \u2018the behaviour and theological teaching of Neo-Pentecostalism has strong Calvinist inclinations and very little Arminianism\u2019 (1983: 19). It is also evident that NEOP introduces new contents and forms which distinguish them from classic Pentecostalism. With the theological differences in mind Guatemalan NEOP is known as \u2018more refined Pentecostalism\u2019 (IO2). An analysis of\u000A 57 Virginia Garrard-Burnett, \u2018Commentary Chapter five\u2019, Garrad@mail.utexas.edu 19-03-07.\u000A97\u000A