MAPS Global Podcast

Here at MAPS Global, we have built a robust culture of health in our community and missions work. One of the key facets of our culture is our Non Negotiables: Joy, Presence of God, Servant Leadership, and Personal Growth. Tune into this series as we dive into each topic and why it is Non Negotiable for MAPS Global!

Foundational to walking out the Christian life is discerning the Father's voice and following in obedience. Often, we have difficulty discerning God's voice because He is not speaking about what we want to talk about or in the manner in which we want to hear him. Whether in difficult decisions, various seasons, or in the daily mundane of life, we must learn how to hear God speak. Jump into this ep...

In this episode, R.A. Martinez & Aaron Custalow talk about the upcoming 50 Hours of Worship and Prayer, happening April 10-12 across seven locations in the 10/40 Window. As worship rises, the rain falls—bringing life to dry and weary places, causing the desert to bloom. What happens when songs and prayers cover the land for 50 hours? How does worship prepare the ground for something new to take ro...

In this powerful episode, we sit down with a missionary serving at the Levant Missions Base for MAPS Global. She shares her firsthand experience of choosing to stay in a war zone to serve the local people, even as conflict erupted around them. With over a million displaced people in the region, her team worked passionately —distributing meals, hygiene supplies, and bedding to those in need. Yet, t...

R.A. Martinez continues our series on the "End Times" with this fourth and final episode. In this conversation, R.A. And Mimi talk about how to cultivate supernatural love and hold your heart in the face of bitterness, betrayal and hatred. Enduring in love is the final battle of the end of the age.

Short Term Trips! Jump into this episode with us as we discuss the whys and the hows behind short-term mission trips. Exclusive: hear a never before told testimony in this episode!

Check out the third Episode in our series about the End Times. You'll want to listen to episodes #148 & #149 to catch up! Listen as we continue to dive into what Jesus has to say about the signs of the approaching End of the Age.

Imagine Darkness turning to Light...this is what's happening across the 10/40 Window through the power of worship and prayer. We just released our MAPS Global Annual Report! In this podcast, we talk about what God has done this year, telling the impact stories from our HQ and Missions Bases. Thanks for tuning in! Read the Annual Report here: https://mapsglobal.org/ar23-24

Following the previous discussion in Episode #149, R.A. Martinez & Mimi continue the conversation around Matthew 24 & 25. In these passages, we see that Jesus is neither confused nor unclear about the End Times. And guess what? He wants us to have clarity about this essential topic, too! Listen as we dive into what Jesus has to say about the signs of the approaching End of the Age

When it comes to the Gospel and the Great Commission, do eschatology, the end of the age, and apocalyptic Bible verses really have any value? In this episode of the MAPS Global Podcast, listen as R.A. Martinez discusses what the Scriptures have to say about how important the end times are to the fulfillment of the Great Commission.

We caught a special moment to chat with Aiva at Annual Gathering after she spontaneously decided to release an original song during one of the AG24 worship moments. Listen as Aiva shares some nuggets of wisdom and inspiration that songwriters and prophetic singers can glean from.

Tune in to hear stories of Muslims being healed and saved from the leaders of a young adult praying & worshipping community in the Middle East. This bold spiritual family is seeing the Lord move in signs and wonders in their nation in East Africa. "She was completely healed…she started praying…'Jesus I give you my life'..." Hear the full testimony in this special podcast episode!

Somebody has to say 'yes' and by God's grace, I said 'yes.'" In this moment with a missionary, Aaron interviews J on her experience pioneering a black missions movement in an unreached nation. Listen to how she found a place in her assignment to be completely herself serving the church in the Levant. "I'm living cross-culturally, living who God made me to be, in the midst of crisis…full of Joy.

During AG24, we got to sit down with some of our incredible family members from around the globe to hear what God is doing in their nations. In this episode, a missionary to Eurasia shares some of her experience, her process, and testimonies of worship & prayer in Eurasia. If your heart is burdened for missions, tune in to hear what God is doing in one of the largest unreached Muslim nations in th...

Today's topic includes an exciting announcement. In this episode, R.A Martinez and Aaron Custalow cast vision for why we gather every year in August as a spiritual family. Listen as they share what they feel the Lord is saying this year leading up to AG24, MAPS Global's worship and missions conference. August 8-11.

In this episode, listen as R.A. Martinez discusses the biblical characteristics of the worship happening in the throne room of heaven. What are the sights, the sounds, the movements, and the songs being sung around the throne? And how should this impact and inform the culture of our worship today? Tune in to hear!

Listen to this podcast recapping the recent 50 Hours trip that took place and how worship and prayer open the door for missions. 

In the final episode of this series, R.A. Martinez shares the third reason that MAPS Global exists: the Time is Urgent.    

You won't want to miss this one! In this episode we sit down with our overseas missions base directors as well as our planting missions base director to the Himalayas. These frontier missionaries share their hearts for what God is doing in the 10/40 Window and give insight on how He's moving in the time leading up to the 50 Hours. Tune in for testimonies and faith building stories as we prepare to...