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churches founded schools as part of their missionary expansion with the objective to collaborate with education in the country.72\u000ATable 3.1 Educational entities of Neo-Pentecostal churches\u000A Churches\u000ASchool in Guatemala School in the interior of Universities or\u000ACity\u000Athe country\u000A6 5\u000ABible institute\u000A1 (with various extensions) 1 (in perspective)\u000A1 Bible Institute 1 (in perspective)\u000A1 (Theological Seminary)\u000A Verbo 7 El Shaddai 3 Lluvias de Gracia 1 Fraternidad Cristiana 1 Visi\u00F3n de fe 1 Familia de Dios\u000A(not running)\u000A Source: Neo-Pentecostal Churches in Guatemala investigation 2003\u000Aa. The School of the Fraternidad Cristiana\u000AThis school was founded by senior pastor and a group of educators in 1986. The school states that its fundamental intention is \u2018to share with the Christian family the holistic formation of its children, within an academic level of excellence having Jesus Christ as the model to follow\u2019. Their target public is the children of the members of the church and other Evangelical congregations. They offer training from nursery to Baccalaureate in bilingual education in computer science with a scientific orientation. It is a bilingual school (Spanish and English) with a population that includes middle-class and upper middle-class students. According to requirements of the school, the fourth year baccalaureate students must pass the TOEFL (examination of the English language). This examination permits students to apply to foreign universities. This school as well as the ESH \u2018Colegio Biling\u00FCe\u2019 are the only Evangelical schools that offer this examination. Upon graduation students also receive a diploma in Basic Theology (Fraternidad Cristiana Revista 1999a: 50-51). There is currently a student population of around 1000. According to their projections, they hope to have 2000 students in their new building which will lodge 12,000 people in a new mega-\u000A72 Evangelical schools are not new in Guatemala. For example, the Presbyterians founded La Patria school, an Evangelical lay men founded the Instituto Am\u00E9rica Latina, and the Methodists established the Colegio Utatl\u00E1n. These schools and others also function and have served the Guatemalan family now for several decades\u000A130\u000A