29 December 2025
President Jeffrey R. Holland, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died on Saturday, December 27, 2025, at approximately 3:15 a.m. MST from complications associated with kidney disease, while surrounded by his family. He was 85.
Sacrament Meeting Program
Presiding: Bishop Serge St. Felix
Conducting: Bishop Serge St. Felix
Opening Hymn: #1207 - Still, Still, Still
Invocation: By Invitation
Ward Business
Sacrament Hymn: #180 - Father In Heaven, We Do Believe
Administration of the Sacrament
Speaker: Max Stoner
Speaker: Sister Billings (Full Time Missionary)
Intermediate Hymn: #1209 - Little Baby in a Manger
Speaker: Sister McBride (Full Time Missionary)
Closing Hymn: #1208 - Go Tell it on the Mountain
Benediction: By Invitation
Remembering the Life of President Jeffrey R. Holland
President Holland became an Apostle on June 23, 1994. At the time, he was serving as a General Authority Seventy (1989–1994). Prior to full-time Church service, President Holland was president of Brigham Young University (1980–1989), Commissioner of the Church Educational System (1976–1980) and dean of BYU’s College of Religious Education (1974–1976). He received his bachelor of English and master of religious education degrees from BYU. He also obtained master and doctor of philosophy degrees in American studies from Yale.
