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per cent and low/lower class 25 per cent (SEPAL 2003: 6,14).83 According to this data the high class is really just a small part of the total Evangelical population in Guatemala City and certainly even much less so in the interior of the country.\u000AOne important data in the middle and high class churches is the fact that working class families join in with them also (Table 4.2). Although each Neo-Pentecostal church has a clear definition of middle or upper class membership, the presence of working class among those churches can be seen. The data on rural and urban populations based on the census of the National Statistic Institute 2000 show that while the urban population of the Department of Guatemala reached 12.80 per cent there was 27.80 per cent of Evangelicals in this area. Within the 87.20 per cent of the total population of the interior of the country, Evangelicals represent 25.10 per cent (cited by SEPAL 2003:19). This shows that the Evangelical population has a similar concentration in both sectors.\u000AThe NPCs are growing more numerically among Evangelical population and they have the largest number of mega-church buildings, media channels, education centres, and the members of these churches participate actively in politics. They have extended into both the interior of the country as well as to other countries. The majority of the churches were established by the present pastors with the exception of the IVC church. These churches were chosen because of reasons which were laid down in the introduction to this thesis. These churches were founded approximately within the space of ten years from 1976 onwards (see Table 4.2).\u000A 83SEPAL The Josu\u00E9 project El Estado Actual de la Iglesia Evang\u00E9lica en Guatemala registers that the mega- churches with the Assemblies of God and the Church of God represent the most significant growth rates.\u000A164\u000A