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.
July 24, 2026 – July 30, 2026
Friday 31 st Sunset 8:36 pm
Sabbath 1 st Church Worship Leader, Bob Phang 11:00 – 12:00 pm
Sermon, Gary Lewis
Please join us for our Fellowship Luncheon 12:30 pm
Sunset 8:35 pm
Tuesday No Bible Study this week 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 7 th Sunset 8:27 pm
CALENDAR:
August 8, 2026 – Worship Leader, Ginger Finley, Sermon, Larry Folsom
August 15, 2026 – Worship Leader, Bob Phang, Sermon, Randy Steffens
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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 Root Beneath Us
July 31, 2026
Dear Friend,
Every spring, Pacific rhododendrons burst into bloom across Del Norte County's coastal
redwood forests. Under the ancient canopy of Del Norte Coast Redwoods and Jedediah Smith
Redwoods State Parks, where morning fog meets filtered sunlight, they cover the forest floor in
brilliant pink—blooms so striking they scarcely need fragrance at all. Some grow thirty feet tall,
native all the way from British Columbia to Monterey County.
Like the thousands who visit our redwood forests each spring, I've wanted that beauty in my own
yard. The temptation is almost irresistible: clip a small branch, set it in water, wait for roots, then
plant it.
It rarely works. Rhododendrons are notoriously difficult to root from cuttings — they rot before
they take hold, lacking whatever internal response it takes to grow their own root system.
Even under ideal conditions, success is far from guaranteed. Precise timing. Careful wounding of
the stem. Exact humidity.
Perhaps that's because a cutting must first produce a root system of its own before it can truly
live. Until then, it survives only on borrowed reserves. Many never make it. They simply weren't
meant to flourish apart from a living root.
The answer had been in front of me since childhood—I just didn't recognize it. Near our home
grew a large walnut grove, and I noticed the base of every tree looked different from the bark
above it. Years later I learned why: our valley's soil couldn't properly nourish English walnut on
its own root. So growers grafted the walnut variety they wanted onto a rootstock suited to that
ground — one strong enough to draw up what the soil offered so the fruit above could flourish.
That is the difference between a cutting and a graft. A cutting says, I will grow this on my own.
A graft says, I will be joined to a root that can actually sustain this life.
Paul used this exact image for us: "If some of the branches have been broken off, and you,
though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing
sap from the olive root…" (Romans 11:17). We are not cuttings, straining to root ourselves in
holiness by willpower alone, rotting before we take hold. We are grafted branches — joined to a
Root we could never have produced ourselves.
The gardener didn't tell the walnut tree to try harder in unsuitable soil. He grafted it onto a root
built for that ground. Christ is the Root that can flourish in every soil where life takes us.
The Christian life is not about learning to grow our own roots. It is about remaining
connected to the One whose life already flows into us.
The bloom I long for will never come from trying harder to grow my own roots. It will come
from remaining grafted into Christ, where His life quietly becomes my own.
— Verlyn
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