The research aims to analyze the strategies of religious conversion of young people in the
outskirts of the city of Macapá, that is, how the networks of relationships that are created by the
institution of the Assembly of God - the pioneer Getsêmani Congregation located in the
Perpetual District Relief, thus becoming attractive to a particular audience of young people
marked by various stigmas. Thus, through the anthropological ethnographic method, I was able
to visit the church and, in this way, to prepare an analysis of how these young people see and
think of themselves in the Pentecostal (evangelical) movement. Through data collection, I was
able to see their relationships on social networks, the WhatsApp group of the youth department,
and the events promoted by youth leaders, how their networks of relationships and their
religious identity are shaped. In results, a network of Pentecostal family relationships
established in the church and in the neighborhood that dialogue with each other is perceived to
be integral. Consequently, many of these young people have familiarity, as well as the
formation of emotional networks of protection, as well as the establishment of a symbolicspiritual contract that interchanges within a system of material-emotive giving with the
objective of bringing them closer the proposals of Pentecostal institutions and to strengthen
interpersonal and sacred relations.
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