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importance to key elements of the indigenous culture, such as hard work and community solidarity, found in Almolongans. Garrard-Burnett, without leaving out the spiritual dimension, affirms that it would rather seem that the change has to do with the disposition of the Almolongans to adopt the Protestant values, like working hard, saving, faithfulness, the entrepreneurial spirit and temperance, rather than a celestial confrontation (Garrard- Burnett 2007: 22). According to the researcher\u00B4s observations, the social transformation of Almolonga derives from the following causes: religious revival, values of Protestant ethic and elements of the indigenous culture within the framework of capitalist economic development. Some NPS try to apply the Almolonga model in other countries without taking into account the socio-historic differences. That is, there are cultural elements, as is the case with the Almolongans, which must be taken into account.\u000AThe enrolment of high class professionals and believers in social projects might encourage a vision of service to arise in professionals, within and without the NPCs. A similar result is happening in some Pentecostal and Charismatic churches around the world. For example, believers of wealthy families, after making contact with people who live in the poverty belts of Cairo, started to serve the poor and founded institutions of service in their favour (Miller 2006).154 Also, their proposals could drive the future sprouting of similar projects in other churches in favour of the development of the rural areas, especially because indigenous communities, as indicated in chapters two and three, live in poverty and extreme poverty. It will also be important to verify, by future studies, if FMA values, integrates, and promotes indigenous culture values. Local and foreign analysts criticize Evangelicals in general and NPCs in particular, for their frontal attack on\u000A154Of course, beyond the NPCs there is a greater and more structured contribution among the Evangelical churches. The Evangelicals have made a social contribution in spite of the discontinuity of their projection in the historical development of the country. In 1983, La Comisi\u00F3n Coordinadora de la Iglesia Evang\u00E9lica de Guatemala (The Coordinating Commission of the Evangelical Church of Guatemala, COCIEG) affirmed that the Evangelical church had 300 programmes of a social, economic and cultural nature (Declaration COCIEG, Guatemala August of 1983). According to T. Gutierrez in the first decade of the twenty-first century the Evangelical service agencies have increased in Peru. In the decade of the 1990s the evangelical programme of social action in Latin America grew a 100 per cent in relation with those of the previous decades. (1997:24).\u000A 336\u000A