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The pastor and his church consider themselves to be a fraternal community where Christian love is expressed, where space is given to the manifestations of the power of God, and which functions according to the order established in the bible (P2FCG). The FCG started with local resources. They say that they have never received economic resources from outside of the country. Their founder affirms that \u2018from the beginning, a congregation was established with national leadership, with their own financial support and with as aspiration to make the church a model for Latin America\u2019 (Lopez 1999: 4). The emphasis of this church is to be a church for the family.\u000ASome of the pastors of this church admit that this idea is a fundamental part of the success in terms of numerical growth. It is possible to observe hundreds of families arriving together to share in the Sunday worship services. It is quite difficult to talk to those who come in and go out of the services. Because of this some authors question they are relational communities. The pastors affirm that this need is met in the house groups.\u000AA senior FCG pastor of was a very active member in the El Calvario church where he experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit and served in different ministries (P2FCG). He says that this doctrine is part of the Pentecostal heritage, but with some modifications. After a period of using different installations of various hotels they set up house in their own property at the end of 1989. Accelerated numerical church growth made them one of the first mega-churches in the country. They grew from twenty people in 1979 to 12,000 members by the middle of 1999. In February 1991 they inaugurated an auditorium with capacity for 3,500 people and two buildings with four floors which house the bilingual school founded in 1987 and the Sunday school.30 They celebrate three services on Sunday and in the week they encourage the coffee groups (cell groups for growth). They also have on their installations a medical clinic, and diagnostic laboratory as a service for clinical analyses which are at the disposition of all of the members as well as the general public.\u000A30 In \u2018Historia de la iglesia Fraternidad Cristiana de Guatemala\u2019, in Revista 20 A\u00F1os Desde 1978 Proclamando a Jes\u00FAs para transformar la naci\u00F3n. p. 12.\u000A74\u000A