Sonali Albus grew up going to WorldSong Missions Place, and after she took her first missions trip at age 15, she sensed God was calling her to missions.

“I felt the Lord saying, ‘This is what you’re going to do with your life,’ but I was so shy I was like, ‘No, it’s not, Lord,’” Sonali said. But that summer when she returned to WorldSong’s Missions Adventure Camp, God spoke to her again through a song lyric that said, “It’s Your breath in my lungs.”

“I thought, ‘If it’s Your breath technically, Lord, I guess I can do this,’” she said.

So she did. Sonali kept going on missions trips, and after
high school as she worked as a WorldSong staffer, she gained experience sharing the Gospel with children. She said that gave her even more preparation and boldness.

Then last year, she served for seven months in Chile, and now she’s applying to serve as a Journeyman with the International Mission Board.

Candace McIntosh, executive director of Alabama WMU, said Missions Adventure Camp is intentional not just for the camper but for the staff as well. She said it’s an “incubator for them to deepen their walk with the Lord and explore a greater calling.”