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They have developed some evangelistic and compassionate ministries to support children and people who are in prison.\u000AThe FCG is building at this moment the new auditorium to hold 12,000. According to their founder this project shows that the Latin Americans are capable of developing mega-projects portraying a different image of successful Evangelicals. Other local Evangelical leaders criticize this type of mega-project due to the great quantity of economic resources which are used up and the lack of a greater social projection towards the members and the people who live in the vicinity (Callejas 2002).\u000A3. The El Shaddai church\u000AThe ESH church was also born as a result of a local effort and without external economic resources. In 1982 a small group started to meet in the home of Enrique and Asunci\u00F3n Arimany parents of the senior pastor\u2019s wife, Cecilia Caballeros. The church was established in 1983 by the pastors Harold and Cecilia Caballeros. A lawyer by profession, Harold Caballeros was converted as a born again person at the end of the 1970s through his wife Cecilia. She had her religious conversion at the age of eleven in a service for healing and miracles conducted by Katherine Kuhlman.31 This fact shows that the founders maintain from an early date their links with the Pentecostal type of churches. In a similar way to the beginning of the FCG, the ESH used several different localities before buying a property in the Zone 14, which is one of Guatemala City\u2019s residential areas. Pastor Caballeros in his book De Victoria en Victoria: Conceptos, experiencias y t\u00E9cnicas sobre la guerra espiritual, (1999) relates how he got the present location for the church, the spiritual conflicts which were fought and the way in which they were able to build the present church.\u000AThe ESH also experienced accelerated growth in less than two decades. At the present moment they have twenty-five churches in Guatemala with fifty affiliated churches\u000A31 \u2018Biograf\u00EDa Harold Caballeros\u2019 in Aleluya News, Special Edition Congreso Mundial Avivamiento 2000, Guatemala. p. 30.\u000A 75\u000A