Our Sabbath School and the Worship services are live and viewable via Zoom. Two Adult
Sabbath School classes are presented each week. One of them is viewable via Zoom. The
Junior/Earliteen Sabbath School class meets in the Pathfinder Room. Cradle Roll and
Kindergarten classes are available for younger children. If you are unsure where the rooms or
classes are being held, please don’t hesitate to ask one of the greeters for directions.
The Worship service is in the Sanctuary and via Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID# and Password
are listed below.
Zoom access for Crescent City SDA Church meetings:
Meeting ID #: 993 5770 413
Password: 4642738
You can join by going to Zoom.us, click on join a meeting, and then enter the Meeting ID # and
password; or by dialing 1 669 900 9128, entering the meeting ID# and password as prompted; or
accessing through the Zoom app.
July 24, 2026 – July 31, 2026
Friday 24th Sunset 8:42 pm
Sabbath 25th Church Worship Leader, Bob Phang 11:00 – 12:00 pm
Sermon, Eddie Heinrich
Please join us for our Special Fellowship Luncheon 12:30 pm
Sunset 8:41 pm
Tuesday No Bible Study During July Will resume August 18
Wednesday Community Services 1:00 – 3:00 pm Dorcas
Prayer Group 5:00 – 6:00 pm Church
Pathfinders Will resume in September
Thursday LLL Ladies’ Group will resume in September
Friday 31th Sunset 8:36 pm
CALENDAR:
August 1, 2026 – Worship Leader, Bob Phang, Gary Lewis
August 8, 2026 – Worship Leader, Ginger Finley, Larry Folsom
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
A special welcome to Grant Taute and his family as they visit with us this weekend!
Another special THANK YOU to the Summer on the Run team for their assistance this
week.
Tithes and offerings are being collected during the 11:00 AM Worship service each Sabbath.
Other options include the locked offering box on the rear wall of the Sanctuary, the link to
Adventist Giving on our church website:
https://crescentcityca.adventistchurch.org or you can download the Adventist Giving app.
Tithes and offerings may also be mailed to Crescent City SDA Church, P.O. Box 1905,
Crescent City, CA 95531. Please designate where the funds are to be deposited: tithe, church
budget, Little Red School House (School), special projects, etc.
Thank you for taking the time to be part of our church family, in person or via media. Please
reply to this email (or ccadventistchurch@gmail.com) if you have specific prayer requests. The
Prayer Ministry team is active and cares about your needs—let us know!
Love Begins Long Before Christmas
July 24, 2026
Dear Friend,
Christmas is still months away.
Yet I have been thinking about it lately—not because of the decorations or the music, but
because I remembered an old three-wheeled utility scooter my father restored when I was a boy.
Oddly enough, that rusty machine taught me something about how God loves us. God didn’t wait
six months, nine months, or even a few years to bring us Jesus. He didn’t scramble at the last
minute to assemble a savior. Galatians 4:4 (NIV) reminds us, “But when the set time had fully
come, God sent his Son.” Our heavenly Father had been preparing for that moment through
prophets, promises, and generations, so that when the time was exactly right, He gave the world
its greatest gift.True love requires foresight, preparation, and a willingness to pour oneself into a project long
before the recipient ever sees the physical evidence of that love. I learned this truth firsthand
through my own earthly father and a very unusual piece of machinery.
Almost everyone knows about Harley-Davidson, Honda, Kawasaki, and other famous
motorcycle giants. But did you know that another legendary American company started all the
way back in 1901?
Two cousins founded Cushman Motor Works, originally building small “Husky” engines for farm equipment. Eventually they designed a rugged three-wheeled utility scooter called the Cushman Package Kar. Instead of handlebars, it featured an automotive-style steering wheel, foot pedals, a hand-operated transmission, and a large wooden cargo box over the front axle. Decades later, one of those exact machines would become the vehicle for a lesson in love. One summer, months before December arrived, my dad quietly bought a used, retired Cushman Package Kar. When he first took it to his place of work, it didn’t look like a treasure. It was weathered, heavily dented, and showing its age. The original wooden utility box on the front was rotted, splintered, and falling apart. The paint was faded, and the engine refused to start. Where anyone else would see a pile of scrap metal, Dad saw the smiles of his boys who had no idea what was coming. Looking back, I realize my father wasn’t really restoring a scooter. He was building childhood memories that would last a lifetime.
For weeks leading up to Christmas, Dad stayed late after work. With sawdust, grease, and paint on his hands, and a vision in his heart, he went to work. He completely tore down the rotted front cargo box and rebuilt a brand-new one. He pounded out the dents and gave the body a beautiful new coat of blue paint. He polished up the dual round headlights, and meticulously tuned that single-cylinder Husky engine.
Love rarely begins when the gift is opened.
It begins months earlier, while no one is watching.
On Christmas Eve, my brothers and I ran out to the driveway to find the ultimate surprise. There it sat, gleaming brilliant blue, smelling of fresh paint and wood. My brothers and I immediately became the principal drivers of that machine. Operating it was a whole lot of learning. We had to master the dance of the foot pedals on the floorboard. We had to learn how to stand up and firmly stomp down on the heavy, manual kick-starter pedal to roar the
engine to life. Dad showed us how to use the clutch and throw the hand lever into gear, and we laughed as we took turns piling into that front wooden box while one of us steered us down the road.
That blue scooter became one of our greatest childhood memories—a legacy that lives forever in our hearts.
The beauty wasn’t in the planning itself. It was in the love that inspired every evening of preparation. Dad loved us enough to look down the road, see our future joy, and work through the trials of restoration long before we knew what he was doing.
Isn’t this how God works in our lives?
I sometimes wonder how many blessings God has been preparing that I simply cannot see yet.
While I worry about today, perhaps He is already sanding rough edges, replacing broken boards, applying fresh paint, and preparing something beautiful for tomorrow.
Maybe that’s why Scripture says (NKJV),
“When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son.”
Bethlehem wasn’t God’s emergency plan.
It was love, patiently preparing for centuries—even before the foundation of the world (1 Peter 1:20).
Every Christmas Eve begins months earlier.
Every restored scooter begins with someone willing to see beauty where others see rust. Every act of redemption begins with love.
Long before I ever climbed behind the steering wheel of that little blue Cushman, my father had already spent countless evenings preparing a gift I never saw coming.
Only years later did I realize that the greatest gift my father gave us wasn’t a little blue scooter. It was the quiet assurance that we were loved.
Long before I ever knew I needed a Savior, my heavenly Father had already done the same. That may be the greatest lesson Christmas teaches—even in July.
What is God quietly preparing in your life right now that you can’t yet see? — Verlyn
— Verlyn
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