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approach them personally. Twenty Pentecostal leaders were approached and were
given the letter explaining my research details. Eighteen of them accepted the
request and offered their full cooperation, and gave their written consent.
Similarly nine non-Pentecostal leaders were approached, and all of them except
two offered full participation, and also gave their written consent. The two who
did not offer full participation were not included in this research. The focus
groups of women and young people were selected with the help of their respective
local pastors, and the focus groups of pastors were selected with the help of senior
leaders. The letter was written in Hindi describing my research project as well as
requesting their participation, and the pastor read it out to the congregation. Those
who were willing were selected and asked to fill a consent form, with the help of
the pastor as well as that of another two witnesses from the church. The consent
form was read to them before they gave their consent. For participant observation
of congregations, the local pastors were approached personally and the letter was
provided, which was read before the congregation, and no objection was raised.
They were asked through the pastors to fully participate in the research. However,
in all the cases, the participants were given the right to withdraw at any time, but
were asked to inform the local pastor first. It was my intention to discard the data
collected from those participants who had withdrawn. However, nobody withdrew
from the current research. The participants were clearly told about the purpose of
the study. The participants were not given compensation of any kind, either
financial or non-financial, for their participation.
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