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The majority of pastors have a programme to train their members in their faith and their missionary work. ESH founded ILES (Lay people\u2019s Leadership Institute), and CEIDAL which is a centre to provide guidance for the emerging development projects among the church\u2019s professionals. The Faculty for leadership of the FCG provides a basic level of Christian faith and leadership for all the membership. ICV in zone 7 offers a series of short courses on doctrines as well as courses about finances.\u000AThe IVF pastor trains the team of leaders who run the growth groups where practically all of the Neo-Pentecostal leadership is formed. The IFD pastor says that his aim is that the members get new habits, assume a new positive mentality to confront life\u2019s challenges, and discover through the success workshops which gifts they have within the great Christian values which will enable them to do great things (Solares, Aleluya News A\u00F1o 5 no 37. 18-20). Some short seminars are given about how to draw up a budget, how to avoid debt, or how to start businesses which enable believers to confront life and work things out in the world (L5IFD). The researcher participated in some of those classes and observed a large group of lay people in these training programmes. Most of the contents are related to first steps of discipleship and several themes of Christian faith, finances and how to become successful. The main resource to teach used to the membership of those churches is through preaching.\u000AThe training programmes among the Neo-Pentecostals are orientated to faith, evangelism and leadership training. These are generally new programmes and their content is focussed essentially on the church\u2019s spiritual business. From the context of civil society, leadership training is important to bring about social change. As Putnam (1993) suggests, it is an essential factor for the formation of the human resources for social, economic, political and cultural to fortify democracy. The question is, are those churches training their membership to face up to the challenges of life, and are they preparing them to serve the country?\u000A 198\u000A