Dear friends, We send our warmest greetings and hope that you are doing very well. We’d like to take this opportunity to share with you that one of our ministry goals for 2017 is to start two new movements in two different cities in our country where there is currently no ministry to college students.  One of the universities in our expansion plans is the University of Guanajuato.  It is located in the city of Guanajuato, which is 6 hours away from Puebla and 5 hours north of Mexico City. The University of Guanajuato has a student population of approximately 23,200 university students, divided among 4 distinct campuses.  It is the most important public university in Guanajuato state. From January 25th until February 7th, a team of 6 people from our area of Latin America and the Caribbean came here to help us start a student-led movement at the University of Guanajuato.  One of the main goals was to find students committed to God and to the Great Commission, students whom God has been preparing ahead of time to lead a movement in their university.  I had the opportunity to spend 3 days with them during their time there, and we met several Christian students that wanted to share their faith with others, they want to help others grow in their faith in Jesus and partner with us to start a movement in their university.  During the time we were there, they spoke with hundreds of students and took advantage of many opportunities to share the Gospel with their peers.  Now I am in touch with students who are committed to God and to their university to help them continue the work of leading the student movement.  I am very happy about this new ministry venture.  It has been very helpful for us, and we hope that many students from the new university will be able to come to our national student conference in the month of April.  Here are some photos: one of the student leaders whom we met during our time in Guanajuato, one of the local team members who came along, and one showing me sharing the Gospel with Karla, who received Christ as her Savior that day.

We are also signing up for the national student conference which will be held from April 9-12.  This year I am the team’s Design Director for this conference.  The name of the conference is “GO” and our focus is that each student becomes a true follower of Jesus who invests His life into the lives of others through evangelizing and discipling others at the university.  We are very encouraged by this upcoming conference, which is almost here! As far as our family goes, we went through weeks when all of us were sick with the flu, but thanks to God we are doing much better.  Our children are really fun at this age and we thank God for them.

Thank you for your constant prayers for us and for your financial support.  Without you, we would not be able to do everything we do.  We are very grateful to partner with you to continue taking the message of the Gospel to the university students of Mexico. Prayer requests: For the students we met in Guanajuato, that God will use them to reach their university with the message of Jesus. That several of them will be able to attend the national conference in April. That we will be able to help these new students as best we can in order to carry out the work at their university. That our national conference helps the students to become better disciples of Jesus for when they return to their university. Note: Our national conference is drawing near.  If you would like to support some students who would like to come but don’t have the resources to do so, please reply to this message and I will follow up with you. Gracias! Luis, Liz,Leah, & Ian Pomares "The Gospel for every student, A movement for every campus, Leaders for every nation"   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.