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strong brotherly hug. This hubbub gets stronger in some churches which have a school alongside the church building. In the hallways of these churches a lot of movement is generated around their mission objectives and due to the different activities which they hold each week. Above all the mobilization of people and equipment is even greater during the celebration of an international congress.\u000AThis new religious movement inside and outside of the NPCs is seen by some scholars as a break with old monopolies. Andrew Chestnut in his analysis of new religious groups within religious pluralism, following Peter Berger and Rodney Stark, observes in these groups the emergence of a new religious economy (2003: 6). These groups show that religion which once was imposed as the product of a monopoly now can be offered and sold to the consumers. They also observe that participation in religious activity is bigger in spiritual economies which are not regulated than in the monopolized ones.\u000APierre Bourdieu defines this field as \u2018the space where they produce, reproduce and distribute goods which are symbolic of salvation\u2019 (Cited in Cant\u00F3n 1998: xi). These signs of religious changes in Guatemala are not only occurring in the Evangelical churches, but also in other groups including the church belonging to the Catholic Renewal as well as the Mormons. The essential components of NPC will be described in order to understand their nature and presence in the Guatemalan society. Later there will be a detailed analysis of the aspects related to the social vision of the leadership, their social projects and the thinking and social participation of Neo-Pentecostal lay people.\u000A1. The Verbo Christian Church\u000AThe Verbo church [ICV] was founded at the time of the 1976 earthquake. It was established through the initiative of the missionaries of Gospel Outreach from Eureka, California. According to one of the founders, they arrived in Guatemala full of the North American \u2018hippie style\u2019 communal type of living of the 1960, and with a government style whose authority rested on the governing elder. These \u2018Christian communes\u2019 belonged to a\u000A71\u000A