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to be increased if their pastors encourage them to get involved whether at the local level of church or within society.\u000AThe projects Casa Bernabe and Hands of Love have a lot of infrastructure, administrative organization and financial resources. Those projects are providing people with some kind of vision for development. The contribution of both social programmes could stimulate the emergence of new programmes within other Evangelical churches. Of course, CB and Hands of Love need to be evaluated in order to know if they are accomplishing their goals and if the people of those churches are getting involved.\u000AThe NPCs\u2019 education projects are an important part among most of the churches studied. Although their schools and universities are not available for all the population, they are a very important contribution to the social and economic development of the country. Nevertheless the schools in the Guatemala City are inaccessible to most of the population and accentuate the process of exclusion of the lower middle and working classes. In what ways are those educational centres forming leaders with social vision to serve their churches and society? Their objectives to form leaders to be better professionals and serve the country, needs further analysis.\u000ATheir concern for social problems does not necessarily mean that they know how to approach them or face them. There does not appear to be, especially among NPL of the members of the higher classes, a vision or movement that could be a vehicle for social change from the structural point of view politics and economics. Where the NPL show certain potential that could contribute to social change could be in the sphere of political culture.\u000AFinally, it is important to point out that the network of FGs are a key platform for the believers\u2019 personal development, as in these mega-churches it is hard to cultivate close personal and community relationships. Up to what point do these groups achieve the objectives of their mission and do they provide pastoral help for the believers and the new converts? Some critics of G-12 say that the family groups create a lot of pressure on the\u000A159\u000A