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These churches have teams to serve needy people by praying for them or liberating them. The researcher observed in his visits the interest and disposition of those who were leading the intercessions. On one occasion it was not possible to speak to the pastor because he was in a prayer session with others. The pastors of the family groups provide fellowship, prayer and mutual support (4LDG). These churches try to help their members through these family groups so that they can meet the challenge of changes in the lives of the people and their families. This network of family groups will be analysed ahead in order to understand the dynamic and the way they serve the process of affirmation of the members.\u000A6. Social help for the needy\u000AThe Neo-Pentecostals are starting to develop some social help programmes to support needy members of their congregations. This has been a slow process because these churches were born essentially with an evangelistic emphasis. Helping the needy is often neglected among those churches. Some lay people and pastors recognize that the church had not been thinking about or including in their missionary labour social help. One pastor who has shown more interest in the social theme affirmed that Evangelical revival has not had a social impact yet. (P3ESH).\u000AThe Verbo church started their ministry with a programme of social aid after the 1976 earthquake, and later concentrated on planting churches. The senior pastor told the researcher at the beginning of the investigation that although they had a social project as a national church, at the local level they did not have programmes of aid for the needy (P1ICV). In more recent years the churches of Guatemala City and the interior have started some projects such as the Verbo church in the department of Huehuetenango.\u000AIn 2005 they inaugurated a community pharmacy in the installations of their church building. Leaders of the church said: \u2018with respect to social projects, we have had limitations in giving, but recently we see a dream becoming a reality, that of providing\u000A126\u000A