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These churches also celebrate annual congresses to which believers from Latin- America, Spain and the United States assist. For example, the \u2018Congress for Revival\u2019 which ESH organizes, \u2018Widen the lines of your tent\u2019 of the \u2018Casa de Dios\u2019, Church Growth Congress \u2018Open your eyes\u2019 organized by the LDG church and others, are just a few examples of these events which bring together thousands of participants. The NPCs do not just receive influences from abroad but they also export their beliefs and Neo-Pentecostal emphases through congresses, and pastors and missionaries who are working in Latin America and abroad.\u000ASome emphasis in the field of music, worship, congresses for women, youth prayer congresses (among others), attract Latin American and other Neo-Pentecostals. The video on the model of Almolonga has gone round the world to show what they call \u2018transformation of communities\u2019. It shows the spiritual, rational, economic, and social changes which the gospel brought to this town. According to the Neo-Pentecostal thesis, the change which Almolonga experienced was possible because of the spiritual warfare won in that place. These ideas are transported through the media of videos DVDs, cassettes or television programmes within and outside of Latin America (\u2018Almolonga, la ciudad milagro\u2019 Video Almolonga: VHS Guatemala).\u000AOn the other hand, the NPCs have influenced the Evangelical and Catholic churches in Guatemala and beyond. They export evangelistic vision, liturgical emphases, leadership and some ideas about church growth within and beyond Latin America. This \u2018move of the Spirit\u2019, as the Neo-Pentecostal pastors [NPS] would call it, is also beginning to be exported to other countries. Of course, some critics of this movement would argue that they are also exporting various emphases and practices that do not correspond with the biblical pattern (IO1). These areas of expansion need to be analyzed in further studies to observe what sort of churches they establish, what their biblical and theological basis is, the leadership they train and how they project themselves in their socio-religious context.\u000A157\u000A