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church has a similar social composition as the NPCs \u2018Rey de Reyes\u2019 and \u2018Ebenezer\u2019 located at zones 4 and 5 of Guatemala City. They have recently started a church aimed specifically at the high classes in a residential zone of the capital city.\u000AThis church is characterized by their special emphasis on numerical growth. The key to their expansion is the promotion of cell groups. In 1991 they had forty groups; by 1995 they had multiplied these to 400. By the year 2000 their plan was to be able to have 1000 family groups. In 2004 they moved to their new church building with capacity for 10,000 people. Starting from 1995 they celebrate an annual evangelistic campaign where the presence of the family groups can be appreciated. In 2001 the churches of LDG alone filled the national Mateo Flores Football Stadium with 48,000 persons (Madrid n.da.). Also, they founded a school and consider that this contributes to the formation of better people. This church exemplifies the impact of the NPCs within the mainline churches.\u000AA similar experience occurred in the Jotabeche church of the Pentecostal Methodist denomination in Santiago, Chile. This church was born within the Methodist church in 1909 and became one of the first mega-churches in Latin America. In his visits to this church the researcher observed the presence of a multitude of people, approximately 15,000 believers who were worshipping with contagious enthusiasm and studied keenly the sermon given by bishop V\u00E1squez. On that occasion in a matter of a few moments the benches were turned around and hundreds of teachers appeared to coordinate the small discussion groups of between ten to twelve people each.\u000A5. The Family of God church\u000AAnother of the NPCs which emerged in this period is the Family of God church [IFD]. They started the work on June 1990 as part of the Christian Motivation Ministry in 1984. This ministry was started by its founder pastor who before his conversion had been a motivator for success and a member of the Freemasons. After an existential religious crisis\u000A78\u000A