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was recognized as a prophet before he went to the El Shaddai [ESH] church. The Elim church as an expression of Pentecostal churches indirectly, was a factor which contributed also to the beginnings of the NPCs in the country.27\u000A2. The Para-ecclesiastical groups\u000AThese churches also emerged under the influence of para-ecclesiastical entities. The Full Gospel Business Men\u2019s Association used its influence to produce a model for these churches in the country. The evangelistic strategy through use of hotels and restaurants forged a model in the heart of the NPCs. Walter Hollenweger affirms that this business men\u2019s organization decided to evangelize the world in a non-traditional way influencing the churches, and propagating the ideas of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and divine healing among non Pentecostal churches (1976: 36-38).\u000AThis modality of evangelism attracted both Protestants as well as Catholics. Charles E. Hummel concludes that in the United States this Fraternity was \u2018[...] an important influence in the emergence of the Charismatic renovation in the principal Protestant churches and the Roman Catholic Churches at that times\u2019 (cited in N\u00FA\u00F1ez 2001:14). This Fraternity was established in Guatemala in 1975 and at the beginning of the 1990s had fifty-six chapters in Guatemala (Cant\u00F3n 1998: 95).\u000AIn Guatemala some Catholic people who have participated in this Fraternity have later joined some Pentecostal and NPCs. Some analysts affirm that the emergence of the Catholic Charismatic renovation movement was another contributor to the process. However others assert that the process happened the other way round and that a good number of Catholics emigrated to the NPCs (Smith in Silva 1996: 74). Perhaps it is possible to affirm the same of AGLOW a fraternity of Christian women that promotes activities for women in well known hotels. This fraternity which originated in North\u000A27 This church because of its characteristics and doctrines identifies itself as a Pentecostal type of church even though they show certain distinctive features which differentiate them from the classic Pentecostal churches such as the Church of God of the Full Gospel and the Assemblies of God. Some scholars would call the Elim churches Neo-Pentecostal and according to the profile described in this study they do fit better with them. However, their leaders would not accept that ecclesiastical definition.\u000A66\u000A