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company such as the Foundation for Success, as an insurance counsellor, as a manager of a pharmaceutical company for Central America and Panama [...] so that He could call me and give me the ability to administer the work that God does in his church\u2019 (P5IFD). This function he described was not like the model of the traditional pastor.\u000ANeo-Pentecostals empowered by their charisma assume distinct projects in which they show features of managerial leadership. For example, the IFG senior pastor founded Christian Motivation, bought television Channel 27, \u2018Radio Exclusiva\u2019 and established a church built on land that extended for twenty three blocks. The ESH senior pastor showed the same tendency. After founding the church he established schools, a network of radio stations, the \u2018Manos de Amor\u2019 Foundation, and CEIDAL (International centre for Latin American Development) and founded the San Pablo University. These phenomena are occurring in others continents as well. The pastor Mensa Otabil who founded in 1984 the International Central Gospel Church in Ghana, recently opened a Christian university college and some charities in Ghana (Gifford 2004: 114-116).\u000AThe FCG senior pastor believes that Christians spend their lives with a sense of excellence and hard work: \u2018We can do everything with excellence and with our own resources\u2019 (P2FCG).88 He built the greatest mega-church in Central America which has been criticized for the amount invested in it. This type of leadership fits in with the model which Conger & Kanungo propose within the contemporary organizational context. According to these authors, the charismatic leader evaluates critically the environment and the status quo, formulates and articulates a vision for the future, and builds up an environment of confidence and credibility in the minds of their followers (1998: 47-57.).89\u000AFrigerio & Seman see this same characteristic in Pastor H\u00E9ctor An\u00EDbal Jim\u00E9nez who has had a lot of success in Argentina and who is called a religious \u2018entrepreneur\u2019 (1995:\u000A88 According to the FCG Pastor the construction of mega-churches is a sign of advancement. He affirms: We are giving a new image\u2019 (L\u00F3pez 2002: 9). At the present time he is building the biggest church in Guatemala and the Central American region that can hold 12,200 people. The cost of this project was estimated in the beginning at 160 million quetzals ($20 million) which is being paid for with local funds.\u000A89There exits vast bibliography treating aspects of charismatic leadership within the spheres of their organization. For examples see the works of Marsden & Snow (1991) and Peter L. Wright (1996).\u000A172\u000A