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.
September 18, 2026 – September 25, 2026
Friday 18th Sunset 7:20 pm
Sabbath 19th Church Worship Leader, Courtney Bliss 11:00 – 12:00 pm
Sermon, Aimee Bolender
Bible Lab – Episode 4 – …How does God Test Us? 12:30 pm
Sunset 7:18 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 25th Sunset 7:08 pm
CALENDAR:
September 26, 2026 – Worship Leader, Ginger Finley; Speaker, Rick Finley – Communion
October 3, 2026 – Worship Leader, Bob Phang; Speaker, Stephanie Van Horn
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.
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 Final Question
September 18, 2026
Dear Friend,
During my doctoral studies in Industrial Technology, one of my required courses was in
business—an unexpected pairing, but a requirement nonetheless. The professor was a world-
renowned lecturer, sought after at business summits and by some of the largest companies in the
world; students scrambled for a seat in his courses, and even as a doctoral student with first pick,
I ended up in the largest lecture hall on campus—still packed.
I’ll admit I was caught up in his reputation myself. And he lived up to it. He didn’t just teach us to
read a balance sheet or recite a marketing framework. He taught us how to think several moves
ahead, weigh risk, lead people through uncertainty, and recognize opportunities others might
miss. All semester, we took in every word.
On the last day, he gave a brief summary of everything we’d covered, and then he turned the
tables. He reminded us that we had studied success from many different angles during the
semester. Then he asked what he considered the most important question of all: What is the real
key to success in life?
Hands went up around the room. Students called out the concepts he’d spent the semester
teaching us—competitive advantage, capturing value, managing risk, driving innovation. He
nodded along, taking it all in.
Then, in the last few minutes of class, he told us we were right—and wrong. The principles we’d
named mattered, he said, but none of them was the real key. He and many of his colleagues, he
told us, had found God to be the true guiding force behind whatever success they’d experienced.
A world-renowned professor, in a lecture hall full of business students who admired him, chose
that moment—his last with us—to give the credit away.
I’ve thought about that often since. He had nothing left to gain from us. No tuition riding on our
opinion of him, no future consulting fee depending on our approval. He could have ended the
semester on a high note of expertise and let us walk away impressed with him. Instead, he spent
his last few minutes telling a room full of strangers who God was to him.
And isn’t that what Jesus did?
Jesus could have used His final hours to talk about His accomplishments, His authority, or His
vindication. He had every right to do so. Instead, He kept pointing beyond Himself—to His
Father. “He who has seen Me has seen the Father,” He told Philip (John 14:9).
Jesus came not merely to impress us with His greatness, but to show us what the Father is like—
to reveal a God whose love would go all the way to the cross for us.
I don’t know what became of most of those students, or whether that closing moment shaped a
single one of them. But I know it shaped me.
It still leaves me with a question: When people look at my life, what do they see—and when they
look closely, do they eventually see Jesus?
Perhaps that is a better measure of success than anything the world can put on a résumé.
— 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.
