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God and the Evangelical Association \u2018Prince of Peace\u2019; c) the churches after the Evangelical explosion (1957-1980). The following churches are included here, the Elim Churches, the Mennonite Church, the Gate to Heaven Church, the Mount of Transfiguration Churches, the Pentecostal Church of God of America, Mount Basan Church, the Episcopal Church of Guatemala, the Adventist Mission, the Guatemalan Christian Fraternity of Guatemala, the Verbo Christian church, the Evangelical Church of Betania, and others. Zapata says that numerical growth in Guatemala occurs through divisions, additions and multiplications.\u000AEverett Wilson stated that in 1993 that the historic churches represented 32 per cent; Pentecostal churches 50 per cent and the Neo-Pentecostals 18 per cent of the total Evangelical population (1998: 152). Practically 70 per cent of the Evangelicals belong to the Pentecostals and Neo-Pentecostals. SEPAL distributes this 25.4 percent in the following way among the memberships [see table 1.1]. The majority of these churches belong to the Pentecostal churches.\u000ATable 1.1 Percentages of the population of the country according to the assistance to different Evangelical congregations.\u000ADenominations or churches Percentage of the total of the Evangelical population\u000A 20\u000A