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regional training centre in Tucur\u00FA. According to the volunteers of the project, the rural school in Secanal Uno has managed to upgrade the level of primary education among the children, and has helped in the formation of new habits of hygiene, eating and education.\u000AThey also note that they have helped the villages to improve their economy through crop diversification. They had been depending only on corn and so if they lost the harvest they lost everything. In the regional training centre twenty-six pastors finished primary and basic education and are waiting to do their secondary schooling as mature students. Another gain has been the diffusion of the vision of FMA through people who after receiving aid have founded a similar project in a community of the Ixil triangle (a zone which suffered during the armed conflict that affected Guatemala for thirty-six years). At the congregation level they have managed to stimulate and to involve a good number of volunteers. Entrepreneurs, professionals, students, housewives and pastors comprise the team that work together during the service days.\u000ATo summarize, FMA was born out of the Neo-Pentecostal charismatic experience. It shows a different way of facing social challenges. In practical terms this religious impetus helps them to propose the social assistance and self sustaining projects that they are developing. At the same time the position of North Americans preachers on society can be seen. The association of the guerrilla with \u2018diabolic forces\u2019 reflects an ideological understanding of the country\u2019s problems that the leadership of the ESH also assume. The following sentence is in the FMA objectives, \u2018In the villages we will reject the powers of the darkness, because the Church will have brought to the people a Real Solution to their poverty\u2019.79\u000AThe FMA also shows the possibility of creating a conscience and social commitment among the members of the high and middle classes. Their notion of rural development could be useful to project self sustainability, and their education projects could help to reduce illiteracy and poverty in the rural areas. Unlike CB, FMA has a budget\u000A79 A \u2018prophetic word\u2019 in the General Information about FMA, Ministerios el Shaddai Available at http://www.elshaddai.net Accessed 10.12.05\u000A 149\u000A