The Pomares Family                    July  2014 Dear Friends, We are finishing up this school year very encouraged for what God has done in the lives of the students.  There is much to celebrate, and other things for which to pray. This time we would like to tell you about the difficulties some of the students experienced during the course of this semester. Yet they are still trusting God to reach their friends for Christ. María Fernanda, is an accounting student who just got involved this year.  Her dad and she were leaving a party where worked taking pictures and videos.  On their way home they were beaten by a group of people who were on drugs.  She was unconscious and taken to a hospital.  After spending a few days there, she is now recovering at home. Saul, an  electrical engineering student, lost his mother two weeks ago due to a stroke. A few students involved in CRU were able to accompany him at the funeral to encouragement to him. Jessica, an  environmental engineering student and one of the leaders of the group at BUAP, had her apartment burglarized a few weeks ago.  Her computer, cell phones, and other valuables that were in the apartment where she lives with his sister were stolen. Josué, a young man who was about to enter college this year, had a relapse with drugs and was about to kill himself.  Thank God he did not and now he is in a Christian rehab center that is helping him a lot. Dalí, a student participating in CRU Monterrey, left home without telling anyone where he went in December.  For a month no one knew anything about him.  In February we knew that he was in Puebla and he had contact with students from CRU.  Here they encouraged him  in his walk with Christ, and last month he  returned to Monterrey with his parents.  He plans to go back to school this coming semester. This year has truly been a year where God has done great things through students in  BUAP.  From January to July students have had spiritual conversations with 293 students, of these 170 students were able to hear the gospel, and 53 students made a decision for Christ. But it has also been a year where the students have experienced more difficulties. However, these difficulties have helped the group of students to see themselves as a family.  We have seen that they take the initiative to help struggling students, to encourage and comfort friends, and help others to meet and love Jesus more. Thanks for partnering with us to reach the next generation of leaders in Mexico and the world with the gospel.

On the family side, the children are growing very fast, Ian turned 1 on July 18, and we are extremely happy to have him as a son.  Leah still learning a lot, she is very intelligent, and even though she  has been a little sick a few days, she is  always in a good mood. From August 29 to September 23  we will be in Wisconsin in the United States to visit family and friends. We haven't been able to visit for a year and a half therefore most people haven't been able to meet Ian yet.  It will be an amazing time, please pray for us that it will be an excellent visit and the kids have a good time. Prayer Request: Please pray for the personal and family circumstances of each of the students that we shared about in the letter. That God continues to encourage the students to follow Christ in their university despite adversity. Please Pray for our finances, we need to raise at least $500 dollars a month to cover our monthly and ministry expenses.

Luis, Liz,Leah, & Ian Pomares " The Gospel for every student, A movement for every campus, Leaders for every nation" "Soli Deo Gloria" Make a donation to our ministry:   online: https://give.cru.org/give/View/2805380   Check: Make your check payable to 'Cru' and attach a post-it note with "Luis  & Elizabeth Pomares" account # 2805380, please do not write anything in the for / memo line. The check should be mailed to CRU, PO Box 628222 Orlando, FL 32862-8222. Blog: http://luisandelizabethpomares.blogspot.com/

The Pomares Family                    June  2014 Dear friends, It´s a pleasure to share with you again what has been happening with us and our ministry in Puebla.This time we want to share a little bit of Jessi´s story, who is a student leader now at  BUAP, she studies environmental engineering and is close to finishing her studies. We met Jessica almost 3 years ago when we were starting the ministry in her university, she had recently received Christ through an aunt in her hometown. She was studying far away though so she had not had the chance to be helped by someone in her walk with Christ. Liz began to meet with her weekly to help her grow in her faith, soon we saw how God was working in her life. Jessica began accompanying us to our local church, and 8 months later she was baptized in our church. Also whenever she had vacation, Jessi traveled to her village where her family lived, which is about 8 hours from Puebla. Each time she could she shared with her ​​mother and siblings what she was learning about Christ. Gradually, her family began accepting Christ. First one of her sisters, then her younger brother, her older sister and more recently, her mother. Over the years we have seen how God has been using Jessi not only to win friends in college to Christ, but also her family. And this last Sunday we had the privilege of watching her two sisters, who now live in Puebla, also got baptized in our church. We noticed the incredible joy in Jessi's face when her sisters were baptized. In the pictures below, the first is a photo of Jessi being baptized two years ago, Leah was only a few months old. The others pictures are from this past sunday of her ​​sister´s baptism.

It´s  a real  privilege to see how God is working in the lives of the students like Jessi, who want  to know and make Christ known to the people around them. It is a joy for us to be used by God to see more and more students from this university committed to Jesus. On the family side, Leah has become much healthier, thanks to God. Leah is learning new words fast and as well as she is learning two languages. It  ​​is fun to listen when she mixes the words or choose the easiest words of the two languages ​​to answer. Ian, on the other hand, has grown as well and weighs 20 pounds now. Recently, he started to crawl and now we have to keep an eye on everything in the house so that Ian does not get hurt or he puts everything he finds in his mouth. ;) Thank you so much for teaming with us to see stories like these. Your prayer and financial support is vital to the task that God has given us. We go together to transform our countries one student at a time. Prayer requests: For Jessi and her family to continue to grow in their walk with Christ. That God allows us to keep seeing more students knowing Christ. That our children are healthy.

Luis, Liz,Leah, e Ian Pomares " The gospel for every student, A movement for every campus, A leader for every nation "   "Soli Deo Gloria" Make a donation to our ministry: online: https://give.cru.org/give/View/2805380 Check: Make your check payable to 'Cru' and attach a post-it note with "Luis  & Elizabeth Pomares" account # 2805380, please do not write anything in the for / memo line. The check should be mailed to CRU, PO Box 628222 Orlando, FL 32862-8222. Blog: http://luisandelizabethpomares.blogspot.com/