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personal options contributing to human development\u2019 (United Nations 2002: 37). So, all efforts to strengthen the education system in Guatemala are essential. This is true especially in the light of the education problems affecting extreme poverty. Guatemala continues to be second on the list of illiteracy levels in Latin America and has serious problems in this field.\u000ALDG and FCG pastors place education within their vision for evangelism and mission outreach. They say that it is a means of sharing the gospel both in Guatemala and outside and a strategy to affect society in a positive way (L3LDG). They state that education is a key factor in the mission of the church and contributes to the country\u2019s development (P2FCG). The ESH Pastor said that education is the heart of the \u2018reformation\u2019 process needed to transform the nation. He underlines that a great part of the social and economic national problems could be solved through the field of education (P3ESH). He sustains his vision based on the effect that the Protestant Reformation process caused in the Anglo Saxon countries. He considers that the church should give great importance to education to bring social and economics benefits to the country. His vision about education aims at reaching and affecting the country and the nations with the gospel (Caballeros 1998: 14).\u000ABased on this conviction the ESH pastors started FUEDES (El Shaddai Educational Foundation) that runs three bilingual schools in Guatemala City and five schools in the Guatemalan interior. The Universidad San Pablo is part that social vision. The vision for the future is to establish a school at the side of all the churches in the twenty-three Guatemalan departments. Finally, the ICV senior pastor says that their ideas about social development are specially channelled by founding schools. Schools emerged at the same time as they planted churches in Guatemala City and in some departments.\u000AIn 2007 they have thirteen schools which are serving a lower middle class, middle class and high class population. Their education vision was widened when they founded the Universidad Panamericana. In order to allow the people to participate they established\u000A195\u000A