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meant that emphasis on baptism of the Holy Spirit, prophecy, speaking in tongues and liberation from evil spirits, began to be noticed even within the Pentecostal world already established.\u000AThe Calvario Church profiles as a Neo-Pentecostal type of church. With other NPCs, they promote the new apostolic focus which forms part of the five ministries according to what the bible registers in Ephesians 5. These five ministries are apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. According to those who know the history of the Calvary Church, some priests and nuns came to this church to learn about charismatic manifestation of the Spirit (IO1). Pastors like Otoniel R\u00EDos Paredes of the Elim Mission and Manuel Melgar of the \u2018Puerta del Cielo\u2019 church, Gamaliel Duarte of the \u2018Jesucristo es el Se\u00F1or\u2019 church, Jorge H. L\u00F3pez of FCG and others, were strongly influenced by this church (IO1). These leaders later established their own churches, with their own theological emphases and mission practice.\u000Ab. The Elim Church\u000AAnother church which contributed to the emergence of the Neo-Pentecostal Movement was the Elim church founded by pastor Otoniel R\u00EDos Paredes (recognized by his church as one of the first apostles in Guatemala) after his experience of Spirit Baptism in 1964. This is one of the first Pentecostal types of churches which emerged with great strength in the capital, in the rest of the country and in some of the other Central American countries. According to the historian Virgilio Zapata, in 1980 this church had sixty-nine churches and fifty new congregations in formation in distinct parts of the country with approximately 20,000 members (1982: 160-161).\u000AThis church was the first mega-church which had 9,000 people meeting together in the 1980s in their auditorium during different services on Sundays. Members of this church formed the Maranatha church which was placed among middle class families. Vladimiro V\u00E1squez founder of Visi\u00F3n de Fe [IVF] - one of the churches to be studied] came out of this church. The former President J. Serrano El\u00EDas was a member of this church where he\u000A65\u000A