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E. MISSION, THEOLOGY AND PRACTICE\u000AThe Neo-Pentecostals find themselves in a dual pathway as far as the importation and exportation of ideas is concerned. At the same time as they are receiving influences they are also exporting their experiences and human resources. Garrard-Burnett affirms that this has to do with the Neo-Pentecostal missionary movement, and on the other hand it is a real process of pollination or the encounter of ideas and theologies.82\u000AThese churches are sending missionaries and establishing churches within and outside of Latin America. For example, the ICV church has established more than thirty- five churches in the United States and Latin America. The ESH church has established fifty churches in the United States, Spain, Portugal and Latin America. The LDG church has established churches in different parts of Central America and the United States. The IVF church has some churches in the United States and El Salvador. The NPCs take with them all their theological, ideological and cultural baggage to plant the new churches. In some way it can be said that the subsidiary churches are replicas of the mother church taking into account contextual differences. For example, the ICV church of Nicaragua follows the model of leadership, liturgy, and theological emphasis of the ICV churches of Guatemala.\u000AHowever, the researcher observed that ICV in Nicaragua is more open to give priority to social aid because of the context in which the church is inserted. Most of Neo- Pentecostal pastors travel as evangelists, workshop leaders and preachers in Latin- America, the United States and on the other side of the Atlantic. The missionary content and impact of those churches outside of Guatemala is a new field of work that needs to be analysed in the future. A separate study later could indicate the type of missionary contribution, influences or mistakes of these churches outside of Guatemalan context.\u000A82 Virginia Garrard-Burnett, \u2018Commentary Israel Ortiz\u2019 thesis on chapter five\u2019, Garrad@mail.utexas.edu 19- 03-07.\u000A156\u000A