MAPS Commander Guide

The MAPS Commander Guide is a practical handbook designed to help churches, leaders, parents, and volunteers launch and lead a Missionary Adventure Prayer Squad (MAPS) ministry in their local church.

This guide provides the tools, structure, and vision needed to build a missions-focused discipleship program that helps children grow in:

• Prayer
• Biblical understanding
• Global missions awareness
• Service
• Evangelism
• Christian character

Through interactive challenges, missionary engagement, reading systems, prayer activities, mission quests, journals, badges, and team participation, MAPS helps children become active participants in God's mission-not just observers.

The Commander Guide includes:

• The vision and purpose behind MAPS
• Leadership structure and volunteer roles
• Program setup instructions
• Advancement and level systems
• Missionary partnership ideas
• Prayer and missions activities
• Reading and journal systems
• Event and challenge ideas
• Suggested schedules and implementation strategies
• Tools for churches of different sizes

Whether your church is large or small, the MAPS Commander Guide is designed to be flexible, practical, and easy to adapt to your ministry context.

More than a program, MAPS is a tool to help raise a generation of children who:

• Love Jesus
• Pray for the nations
• Support missionaries
• Understand the Gospel
• Live missionally where they are
• Follow God wherever He leads

The goal of MAPS is not simply to create activities, but to cultivate a lifelong heart for God's global mission in the next generation.