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contributing to the extension of God\u2019s work in Guatemala through a model educative institution centred in the word of God and academic excellence, reaching children and Christian young people who will positively affect the future of their nation, and provide training to the students to that they can face life\u2019s problems and be integral individuals, in good relation with God and their neighbours, capable of thinking, analyzing and solving life\u2019s challenges.73\u000AThey say that this philosophy has a Judeo-Christian biblical base which in academic terms, means that \u2018all the methodology, contents, and the organizational structure of the school are based on it\u2019 (L7ESH). For this reason, they only hire Christian teachers who must integrate biblical values within their academic materials. The vision of ESH schools is to \u2018form leaders with a Christian worldview to transform the nation and the nations where God may take them\u2019 (L7ESH). The school principle describes the schools goal emotively and brings up questions about the future of evangelical leadership.\u000AWe need Christian leadership. Why, what will happen to the next generation? Where are the lawyers, engineers, doctors, pastors, evangelists, where are the strategists, thinkers, literates, artists? In the Christian world there are few, they are not extending or developing this environment. Every area in which the church does not enter is an area of darkness, because the light has not arrived. As such what we seek is to provide tools to these young people [...] that will help them to develop and be able to work in any area in which God may send them to serve. This is our goal: To form a Christian leadership that will transform and impact our nation and the world positively [author\u2019s emphasis] (L7ESH).\u000AThese schools exist in Guatemala City and rural areas. The ESH bilingual schools have been established in Zones 16, 14, and recently in Zone 11. These schools are in the upper-middle classes, and in the rural populations in the interior of the country. They offer classes from pre-school up to diversified education, offering the Baccalaureate, and a degree in education. They offer a High School programme with the accreditation of the International Christian Credit Association of the University of Oral Roberts. They have this relationship because of theological and ideological affinity. The ESH senior pastor completed a master\u2019s degree in Christian Education at this university. At a local level they have relations with the International Association of Christian Schools (ACSI).\u000A73 Philosophy of the Colegio Biling\u00FCe Cristiano el Shaddai. http//www.elshaddai.org. Accessed 10.12.05\u000A133\u000A