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
November 13, 2026 – November 20, 2026
Friday 13th Sunset 4:57 pm
Sabbath 14th Church Worship Leader, Courtney Bliss 11:00 – 12:00 pm
Sermon, Dwight Winslow
Bible Lab – Episode 2 – Does God Want Bad People in Heaven? 12:30 pm
Sunset 4:56 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 20th Sunset 4:52 pm
CALENDAR:
November 21, 2026 – Worship Leader, Bob Phang; Speaker, Carole Bliss
November 28, 2026 – Worship Leader, Ginger Finley; Speaker, Pastor Grant Taute
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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!
Sunday, November 8, will be the Harvest Soup Swap for the Women’s Ministries. Come and
bring your favorite soup and copy of the recipe and share.
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 Man with the Beer
November 13, 2026
Dear Friend,
Does God ever use a person we wouldn’t expect, or wouldn’t approve of? Sometimes we are so
busy evaluating the person through whom help comes that we almost fail to recognize the help
itself.
My wife and I were newlyweds, heading home from our honeymoon with a small trailer behind
the car. We still had over a thousand miles to go. Driving through the mountains of western
Montana, there was a sudden loud bang. I shoved the transmission into neutral and shut off the
engine, and we coasted to a stop. When I tried to restart it, the engine wouldn’t turn over.
A pickup slowed and stopped behind us. The man who climbed out had a can of beer in his hand.
He asked if he could help, and offered to tow us to the next town. “There’s not much there,” he
said. “A motel, a grocery store, and six bars.”
I’ll be honest: sitting in his cab while he sipped his beer, we both felt uncomfortable. But we had
little money and no other options.
He took us to the motel and asked if I had tools. I had hardly any. He walked us to the owner,
called him by name, and said, “These kids need to borrow your tools.” The owner replied that he
didn’t lend his tools. Our new friend simply insisted until the owner rolled out a full-height chest.
The next morning my wife and I began taking the engine apart. We discovered that a valve had
broken loose and been struck by the rising piston, damaging the cylinder head. When the pickup
came again, he drove us to a larger town where the head could be repaired. The mechanic was
heading to lunch. Our friend told him to work through it and help us, off the clock. When I asked
what the repair would cost, the mechanic said, “Just buy me a six-pack.” Before I could answer,
the man behind me said, “Don’t worry, I’ll buy.”
When we finally climbed into our repaired car, we found an envelope on the windshield with
fifty dollars and a note:
Best luck to you two kids!
I still don’t know whether it came from him or from someone who had watched us work from a
motel window.
One more thing he told us along the way: his wife had left him after his mining operations went
sour. He had been doing a lot of thinking, and he hoped to get back together with her.
We were the ones stranded. Yet he was carrying something heavy too.
God once told a king, “I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me” (Isaiah 45:4,
KJV). God was speaking about Cyrus, a Persian king who did not know Him, yet God used him
to accomplish His purposes. The Lord has never been limited to the people we would have
chosen, or the ones we’re comfortable with.
I don’t know what that man believed. I do know that, on one hard week of our lives, kindness
reached us through a man in a pickup truck.
Jesus consistently looked beyond outward appearances. He saw people for who they were, not
simply for what others thought of them.
It makes me wonder how often I have judged someone by what I could see, without knowing the
burdens they were carrying or the kindness they might have offered.
I pray that I will meet that man in heaven.
— Verlyn
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.
