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 6, 2026 – November 13, 2026
Friday 6h
Sunset 5:05 pm
Sabbath 7st Church Worship Leader, Wilmer Hechanova 11:00 – 12:00 pm
Sermon, Brian Glass
Please join us for our regular monthly Fellowship Luncheon 12:30 pm
Sunset 5:03 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 13th Sunset 4:57 pm
CALENDAR:
November 14, 2026 – Worship Leader, Courtney Bliss; Speaker, Dwight Winslow
November 21, 2026 – Worship Leader, Bob Phang; Speaker, Carole Bliss
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!
Beyond the Tunnel
November 6, 2026
Dear Friend,
To finish college quickly and with as little debt as possible, I needed to take an upper division
class in biblical archaeology. I didn’t look forward to it, but it became one of my favorites. It
showed me how archaeology can provide physical evidence that illuminates the Bible’s historical
accounts. One discovery that fascinated me was a tunnel the Bible mentions, cut beneath
Jerusalem nearly 2,700 years ago.
Picture it. Deep beneath the city, in the darkness, a man swings a pick against solid limestone.
By the light of a small flickering lamp, he chips away, hour after hour. He cannot see the end.
Somewhere ahead, through many feet of rock, another crew is digging toward him, just as blind.
Then one day, a faint sound comes through the stone. A voice! The workers stop and listen. They
call back. They are almost through!
In 1880, a boy wading through that very tunnel discovered carved letters on the wall. The ancient
Hebrew inscription described the workers digging toward each other, hearing one another’s
voices, and finally breaking through. Water flowed from the spring to the pool.
But why was the tunnel built? To understand, we must go back one generation, to King Ahaz.
When enemies threatened Judah, the prophet Isaiah met Ahaz “at the end of the conduit of the
upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field” (Isaiah 7:3, KJV). Remember that place. Isaiah
urged the king to trust God: “If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established” (Isaiah
7:9).
Ahaz refused. He sought protection from Assyria, surrendered the temple’s treasures, and
eventually “shut up the doors of the house of the LORD” (2 Chronicles 28:24).
His son Hezekiah grew up in that shadow. Yet when he became king, one of his first acts was to
reopen those doors and repair them (2 Chronicles 29:3). He did not have to become his father.
Neither do we.
Years later, Assyria’s King Sennacherib swept through Judah, capturing one fortified city after
another. Hezekiah first tried to buy his way out, emptying the royal treasury. But Sennacherib
kept coming.
Meanwhile, Hezekiah was preparing Jerusalem. He strengthened the walls, raised towers,
organized his leaders, and secured the city’s water by cutting a tunnel through solid rock. It
stretched about 1,750 feet, was dug by hand from both ends, and descended only about one foot
from beginning to end. Water still flows through it today.
Hezekiah was a diligent leader. He used the intelligence, resources, and opportunities available
to him. He didn’t sit idle, expecting God to do what he could do himself.
But preparation was not the same as deliverance.
When the Assyrian commander arrived, he stood at that same spot, “by the conduit of the upper
pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field” (2 Kings 18:17). A generation earlier, Isaiah
had stood there with Ahaz. Now the question came again, and it reaches far beyond that ancient
city:
“What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?” (2 Kings 18:19).
The walls? The weapons? The tunnel? The commander mocked their defenses and told them that
no god of any nation had ever delivered a people from Assyria.
Hezekiah had done everything he knew to do. The city was prepared, but the enemy was still at
the gate.
What did he do?
He took the threatening letter, went into the house of the LORD, the very house his father had
locked, and spread it before Him (2 Kings 19:14).
What a beautiful picture! He brought the threat, the uncertainty, and everything beyond his
control into the presence of God.
The tunnel could provide water. The walls could protect the city. But only God could deliver
Jerusalem. That night, the angel of the LORD struck the Assyrian camp, and Sennacherib went
home.
Faith is not laziness, and trusting God does not mean refusing to do our part. But neither is our
best effort the source of our security. We do what God has placed in our hands, and then we
place what we cannot control into His.
Perhaps today you are facing something that seems beyond your ability to resolve. Do what you
can, give your best, and then bring the rest to Jesus. You were never meant to carry everything
alone.
Our confidence is not in how much we accomplish, but in the One who loves us, walks beside
us, and will never leave us.
— Verlyn
A Worldwide Church Family
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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.
