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B\u00EDblico Integral Verdad y Vida set up to serve believers who speak Cakchiquel and Tzutujil (1999: 145).\u000AGarrard-Burnett points out that Protestantism helped the indigenous people to free themselves from some traditions such as belonging to some religious guilds (organizations responsible for the festival for the patron saints especially among the indigenous people). Belonging to these groups is considered to be burdensome and contributes to the consumption of alcohol among the members (1989: 7-15). Green provides a good summary about indigenous communities and evangelicals in Guatemala. She says, \u2018Rather than a turning away from Mayan values, these evangelical affiliations, in spite of their fire- and-brimstone discourse, provide Mayan women and their families with a mechanism to recapture control over their lives, however contradictory such a statement may seem\u2019. She concludes, \u2018Women are trying to regain a sense of community, sharing, groups undertaking in a respectful and dignified way, so emblematic of Mayan culture\u2019 (Green, 1993: 175)\u000A3. Process of becoming mixed raced Ladinos\u000AOther pastors think that the best thing for the indigenous people would be to leave their cultural characteristics like the language, in order to make contact within the global world. They consider that this way they would have better access to certain educative and technological resources. This proposal leans towards the process of ladinization that the indigenous people are experiencing which is also proposed by Ladino academics. In practice, many indigenous people have had to pass through this process due to pressures of the urban world, mixed marriages or fear of rejection and the discrimination.\u000AIn Neo-Pentecostal churches a double situation was observed; in some churches of the Guatemalan interior the indigenous women have to use Ladino dress codes to serve as deaconesses while in the churches of the Guatemala City, women use their indigenous clothes as they use to do in their mother towns. The indigenous families usually get to be part of the congregation although they do not always have access to same the privileges or\u000A229\u000A