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has been already seen through some social assistance projects and the foundation of schools and universities.\u000ATable 5.4 Does your church have aid projects (education, health, among others)?\u000A Options Frequency Yes 365\u000ANo 58\u000AI do not know 71\u000ANo but I think that they should 28 Total 522 Source: Survey of Neo-Pentecostal lay people 2003\u000AValid Percent 69.9\u000A11.1\u000A13.6\u000A5.4 100\u000A Of the existing social programmes, some are permanent whereas others are more temporary. The following table shows a summary of the areas that cover these programmes [Table 5.5]. With the idea of locating the NPL\u2019s programme and social participation, Ronald Sider\u2019s typology, outlined in the Chapter four on the Neo-Pentecostal pastor (NPS) has been applied (1993: 139-140). The NPCs are located at the first two levels of social responsibility at it was explained before: Social assistance and the proposal of projects which stimulate self propagation. In the light of this proposal, the NPL\u2019s thoughts about social presence are analyzed within the Guatemalan society.\u000AThe most common projects are in the areas of health, education and the distribution of food, while the rest of the programmes are related to attending families, in the emotional area and visiting needy people. These social programmes are linked to evangelism. Some Central American Pentecostal churches just concentrate on education. Petersen (1995) in his doctoral thesis about the Assemblies of God in El Salvador shows the advances they have made in the area of education. The President of the Costa Rican Evangelical Alliance told the researcher that the NPCs do not intentionally support the solving of national or social problems but rather seek to establish private primary and secondary schools (EO3).\u000A256\u000A