Welcome to the Crescent City Seventh-day Adventist Church

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.

August 28, 2026 – September 4, 2026
Friday 28th Sunset 7:56 pm
Sabbath 29th Church Worship Leader, Courtney Bliss 11:00 – 12:00 pm
Sermon, Brian Glass

Bible Lab – Episode 2 – …Unpardonable 12:30 pm
*Fun Night with Bible Games 6:00 pm
Sunset 7:54 pm
Tuesday Bible Study (Exodus) 6:00 – 7:00 pm Church
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 4:00 pm
Friday 4th Sunset 7:43 pm
CALENDAR:
September 5, 2026 – Worship Leader, Ginger Finley; Speaker Eddie Heinrich
Fellowship Luncheon
September 12, 2026 – Worship Leader, Wilmer Hechanova; Speaker Carole Bliss
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We are excited to welcome Pastor Grant and his family to our church family and our
community. Please keep them in your prayers as they prepare for this important
transition during the month of October.
*You’re invited to Fun Night with Bible Games on Sabbath evenings at 6 pm here at
the church gym. So far the dates are August 22 to September 12. Come and enjoy
some fun social time!

Tithes and oƯerings are being collected during the 11:00 AM Worship service each
Sabbath. Other options include the locked oƯering 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 oƯerings 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!

September 4, 2026 – September 11, 2026
Friday 4th Sunset 7:44 pm
Sabbath 5th Church Worship Leader, Ginger Finley 11:00 – 12:00 pm
Sermon, Eddie Heinrich

Please join our Fellowship Luncheon 12:30 pm
*Fun Night with Bible Games 7:00 – 9:30 pm
Sunset 7:43 pm
Tuesday Bible Study 6:00 – 7:00 pm Church
Wednesday Community Services 1:00 – 3:00 pm Dorcas
Prayer Group 5:00 – 6:00 pm Church
Pathfinders 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Thursday LLL Ladies’ Group 4:00 pm
Friday 11th Sunset 7:32 pm
CALENDAR:
September 12, 2026 – Worship Leader, Wilmer Hechanova; Speaker Carole Bliss
September 19, 2026 – Worship Leader, Courtney Bliss; Speaker Aimee Bolender
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We are excited to welcome Pastor Grant and his family to our church family and our
community. Please keep them in your prayers as they prepare for this important transition
during the month of October.
*You’re invited to Fun Night with Bible Games on Sabbath evenings at 7pm here at
the church gym on September 12. Come and enjoy some fun social time!
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!

God Never Gives Up

A few years ago, I met a lady who must have been in her mid-to-late sixties. She had a reputation
that most people knew about.
She was not nice.
One day, as I tried to comfort her and share in the pain she so clearly carried, she calmed down.
But when I asked if I could pray for her, she gave an emphatic no.
“God gave up on me years ago!”
As I got to know her better, the full story finally tumbled out.
She had grown up as an active, limit-pushing teenager. Her parents, worn thin by the trouble she
caused, sent her to a Christian youth camp in Hawaii, hoping it would straighten their daughter
out.
Instead, she was sexually assaulted by some of the youth leaders. Then she was abandoned at the
airport and told she didn’t belong at the camp. All the flights to the mainland had already left for
the day. By the time she found a hotel she could afford, she spent the night with a chair pushed
against the door, afraid of what might happen next.
“God gave up on me when I was a teenager,” she told me. “And I don’t want to talk to Him ever
again.”
Weeks and months went by. I kept seeing her here and there as she came in for her medical
appointments.
Then one day I learned she was in the hospital.
It was near the end of the day, and I was the last one left in the office. I locked up early, walked
across the street, found her room, and knocked.
She was startled to see me.
“What are you doing here? No one has come to see me. My own daughter lives right down the
road and won’t come. No one cares about me.”
Then she paused.
“But yesterday, I finally said to God, ‘If You send someone to see me, I’ll give You another
chance.’ And now here you are.”
After we talked for a while about her condition, I asked again if I could pray for her.
This time she said yes.
And then she added, “Will you please pray for my grandchildren?”
That question led me, that same afternoon, to her daughter’s trailer in a park crowded with
trailers just like it.

A twelve-year-old girl answered the door.
“My mom can’t come right now. She’s in the bathroom,” the girl said, while a younger brother
peeked out beside her.
I heard more than I needed to. Her mother was drunk and sick. Her father was up the street with
his drug-using friends.
It was no wonder the grandmother, lying in that hospital bed, couldn’t stop thinking about those
children.
When it comes right down to it, we are all hurting in one way or another.
Maybe not with an illness. Maybe it’s something that happened to you decades ago that still sits
in the room with you. Maybe it’s someone you love that you can’t do anything for and can’t stop
worrying about.
Whatever it is, it’s real. And it doesn’t go away just because no one else can see it.
For years, that woman’s anger at God made perfect sense.
Something terrible had happened to her through people who were supposed to represent Him.
And then no one had come looking for her afterward.
If you had asked her, she would have told you plainly:
“God gave up on me first. I’m just returning the favor.”
But here is what I have come to believe: she was never actually right about that, even during the
years she believed it most.
God said through Jeremiah:
“I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.”
—Jeremiah 31:3
Notice what that verse doesn’t say.
It doesn’t say God waited for her theology to straighten out.
It doesn’t say He waited for her anger to cool.
It doesn’t say He waited for her story to make sense.
The drawing came first.
Into a locked hotel room.
Into a trailer park.
Into a hospital room where no one else had bothered to visit.

God’s love kept coming through every year she told Him not to.
She didn’t decide to let God back in and then discover that He had stayed close.
It happened the other way around.
God had already decided, long before that knock on her hospital-room door, that He wasn’t
finished with her. And He never once needed her permission to keep loving her while she tried to
figure that out.
Perhaps you have wondered whether God has given up on you.
Perhaps you’ve been angry with Him for something that happened long ago. Perhaps you’ve even
told Him, in one way or another, that you don’t want anything more to do with Him.
But your feelings do not change His love.
Your anger does not make Him leave.
Your doubts do not frighten Him away.
And your past does not make Him give up.
Whatever it is you’re carrying, however long you’ve been carrying it, however good your reasons
may seem for being angry with God about it—He hasn’t gone anywhere.
He is still drawing you.
He is still loving you.
He is still knocking.
God never gives up.
— Verlyn