HOLD INTERNATIONAL LEADERS CONFERENCE

January 20, 2005

Dear Sisters,

Warm greetings to you!

We praise our Lord for allowing us to open the year with great anticipation of His blessings upon us HOLD for 2005! This, especially as He promises us that with and in Him, we shall not want! 

Many exciting events will certainly be happening in our lives as His handmaids! Two such events are the HOLD International Leaders’ Conference (ILC) in Manila, and our HOLD National (U.S.) Leaders Conference in California!

HOLD International Leaders’ Conference (ILC)

“It is with great joy and excitement that we announce the 12th HOLD International Leaders Conference that will be held on 20-22 May 2005 at the World Trade Center, Roxas Blvd., Pasay City.

God has always mightily blessed our HOLD conferences throughout the years. And so we can look forward to another beautiful experience with Him and with sisters from all over the world in this conference. Come join us, bring your members and be a part of all this!

We also invite you and your delegation to the HOLD Foreign Leaders Forum on 19 May 2005, 1:00 – 9:00 p.m. where we can discuss directions, share experiences, tackle concerns and fellowship with sisters from other countries. Venue will be announced later.

Registration fee is US$90.00, inclusive of conference / leaders forum fee, hotel accommodations for three (3) nights, meals from dinner of 19 May up to lunch of 22 May, shuttle service from hotel to venue and back. Registration guidelines and other details will be sent to you as soon as they are finalized.

A Great Adventure Tour (GAT), to start right after the conference, is also being organized. We hope that you will stay after the conference to experience this exciting, life-changing activity. We will send you the necessary information regarding this later.

Didi Galsim, HOLD International

HOLD National (U.S.) Leaders’ Conference

It is with equal joy that we are looking forward to finalizing details for our U.S. Conference! Please pray for our hosts in California, that the Lord may direct them and provide them with all the graces they need to firm up these details!

Tentatively, the dates we are looking at are October 14, 15, 16, 2005, and the venue we are seriously exploring is the Riverside Convention Center* in CA!!! These details are not final yet, but are most likely, so we urge all to begin to prepare for this year’s powerful U.S. HOLD encounter with the Lord!

More details will be forwarded to us as soon as they are available, but for now, our excitement builds up! Our hearts are enthused! And why not? The Lord is the shepherd of our HOLD hearts!

Let us all join our hosts in prayer, that His precious HOLD flock will be able to glorify Him together and fellowship with one another in October!


May our faithful and loving God be upon us all!

In Christ,
Canyl Bustos
Special Events
U.S. HOLD
National Council


*For our information, Riverside Convention Center is an hour away from downtown L.A. and Universal Studios. It is about 45 mins. from Disneyland and from Torrance; one hour and 30 mins. from San Diego; 3 1/2 hours from Las Vegas; and 8 hours drive to San Francisco. Sounds exciting!!!