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
October 9, 2026 – October 16, 2026
Friday 9th Sunset 6:44 pm
Sabbath 10th Church Worship Leader, Bob Phang 11:00 – 12:00 pm
Sermon, Brian Glass
Bible Lab – Episode 6 – Why did Jesus have to die? 12:30 pm
Sunset 6:43 pm
Tuesday Bible Study – “Sanctuary” 6:00 – 7:00 pm Church
Wednesday Community Services 1:00 – 3:00 pm Dorcas
Prayer Group 5:00 – 6:00 pm Church
Pathfinders 600 – 7:30 pm Gym
Thursday LLL Ladies’ Group 4:00 pm
Friday 16th Sunset 6:33 pm
CALENDAR:
October 17, 2026 – Worship Leader, Courtney Bliss; Speaker, Stephanie Jennings
October 24, 2026 – Worship Leader, Bob Phang; Speaker, Grant Taute
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. There will be a special Pastoral Installation for Pastor Grant and a dedicatory prayer
on October 24 by Jon Cicle from the Northern California Conference (NCC). There will be a
special Fellowship Luncheon on October 24.
There will be a Fun Night with Bible Stories each Saturday from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM until
further notice. All are welcome to join in the Fellowship Hall because your faith should be fun!
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!
The Question I Couldn’t Answer
October 9, 2026
Dear Friend,
My coursework was finished. My dissertation was written. All that remained was the public
defense and the committee’s final evaluation.
The defense was nearly over when one professor stood and said, “I have a question.”
He asked it in elegant, sophisticated language. It sounded so impressive that it seemed no one
could answer it. But I realized his question wasn’t really about the topic I had presented. So I
rephrased it in simpler terms, and in doing so, I changed it into a question I could answer. Then I
answered that one.
The professor was satisfied, and the public defense ended.
The audience left. I stayed at the front of the room, gathering my things. Only one other person
remained: my boss from the industrial company where I had done my research. He was also on
my committee and held PhDs in both mathematics and chemistry.
“You know you didn’t answer the question that professor asked,” he said.
“I know,” I said. “It wasn’t really about my topic.”
“But what if he had insisted?” he asked. “What would you have said?”
I had to be honest. “I wouldn’t have known.”
“Think about it,” he said. Then he began to teach me. He showed me one way to answer the
question. Then another. Then he approached it from a completely different angle. In the end, he
gave me five different answers, each one correct from a different perspective.
I could see that all five made sense. I understood it now. But I would not have known even one
of them on my own.
Then he quietly left to rejoin the committee.
I thought that was the end of it. It wasn’t.
When the committee began its private questions, my boss brought the question back. He pointed
out that it had never actually been answered, and he asked that it be answered now.
Only then did I understand why he had taught me in that empty room. He hadn’t been correcting
me. He had been preparing me. He had recognized what no one else in the room had noticed, and
he used his own time and knowledge to get me ready for a question I didn’t know was coming.
I did not prepare myself for that moment. He did.
And that reminds me of something Jesus promised His disciples:
“The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all
things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.” (John 14:26, NKJV)
Notice when Jesus said this. It was before His arrest, before His trial, before the hard questions
His disciples could not yet imagine.
Jesus knew what was coming. They didn’t.
And still He was teaching them.
Sometimes that is how He works with us. He may teach us something today whose importance
we won’t understand until later. He may put a truth in our hearts long before we know why we
need it. He may bring a verse back to our minds that we had almost forgotten.
We don’t know what questions this coming week may hold. We don’t know what conversation,
disappointment, decision, or unexpected moment may be waiting for us.
But Jesus does.
And He is the best Teacher we could ask for. He doesn’t need us to know the question in
advance. He asks us to stay close and to keep learning from Him.
Stay Close,
— Verlyn
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A Worldwide Church Family
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a mainstream Protestant church with approximately 19 million members worldwide, including more than one million members in North America. The Adventist Church operates 173 hospitals and sanitariums and more than 7,500 schools around the world. The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) works within communities in more than 130 countries to provide community development and disaster relief.
SPECIAL WELCOME!
Pastor Grant Taute and his family are transitioning to Crescent City. Grant’s desire is that he and his family will be settled in Crescent City by November 1, 2026.
