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church. The student population comes from middle and high class families.\u000Ab. The Lluvias de Gracia school\u000AThey established a school with the vision to \u2018form men and women who fear God, enabling them to carry out evangelism that will impact their community, society and country\u2019. According to the Principal, \u2018we are not only giving them knowledge, or science, or humanism, we are really giving them principles, Christian values that will help the children to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour\u2019 (L3LDG). The school includes levels from Primary to Baccalaureate. Their goal is to \u2018form men and women as agents and new generations to bring about positive social changes.\u2019 (L3LDG). The student population comes from working and lower middle-class families.\u000AThey are prepared under the idea that they will be \u2018leaders within their respective groups. They will establish many differences because they have been taught from a positive position, on solid basic principles based on the word of God\u2019 (L3LDG). This school promotes some meetings with middle level teachers to reinforce the formation of the teachers in curricular aspects. In 2001 they celebrated the \u2018Primer Encuentro Educativo 2001\u2019in the LDG installations. Forty-two workshops in different topics were offered by lecturers from the secular and Christian educational worlds. They also have an editorial project to produce their own textbooks hoping thus to integrate Christian principles and values into the areas of social sciences and the Spanish language for basic education. An extension of the Universidad Pan-Americana of Iglesias Verbo functions on their premises at weekends.\u000Ac. The Verbo schools\u000AThese schools were started with the foundation of some churches through the Foundation for the Promotion of Education (FUNDASEDE) (P1ICV). This educative entity promotes the creation of these schools with the vision of forming students following Christ\u2019s character, applying moral and biblical ethical principles to all subjects, and that the\u000A131\u000A


































































































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