God’s creation

Recently, a team from California arrived in Wales, and we helped them lead a basketball clinic for the kids here.

Student missionaries William Bowden (left) from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Casey Stegall (second from left) from South Plains College help a pastor in Wales (center) and volunteers from California lead a basketball clinic for young people. The young woman third from left told Stegall she did not believe in God.

At the end of the first day, I was sitting down, and a group of kids came up to me. We were just discussing our favorite movies when one of the girls sitting beside me abruptly asked me if I believed in God. I confidently turned to her and said, "Yes, I do believe in God."

"Why? I don't believe in him and I never will," the 14-year-old girl said.

I told her about the power of prayer and what it has done for me. I described how it brought me to Wales, and I told her to take a look around her at her friends and at the beauty all around her. "You are looking at the work of God's hands," I said.

"Oh," she replied, "that's just the Big Bang Theory" at work.

I asked if an amazing and beautiful young lady like herself could just come into being without a Creator. "You, your friends, everything around you is God's work, and you are an amazing creation of his, which he loves so much and cares for a great deal," I said.

"Well, I never thought of it that way," she responded. God's creations are breathtaking and astonishing, and you and I are one of them!

Casey Stegall, a student at South Plains College, is serving in Bangor, Wales, with Go Now Missions.