Andrew Maley joins Marshal Heingartner to reflect on faith, personal change and the practical work of serving others.
In “The Last Cigarette,” he recalls a prayer offered while preparing for a mission trip and an experience that changed a long-standing habit.
A Prayer Before the Journey
While preparing for a mission trip, Andrew describes confronting his smoking habit and asking for prayer about it.
He tells the change that followed as his own testimony — an account of what happened in his life, offered plainly, rather than advice or a promise about how change comes to anyone else.
Serving the Person in Front of You
Andrew reflects on practical mission service, and on what the work actually asks of the people doing it.
What he returns to is personal connection: meeting a person where they are, rather than measuring the effort by its size.
Faith in Everyday Practice
In the interview, Andrew discusses developing guided prayer for married couples.
He also describes creative projects connected to discipleship — ways of helping faith take shape in ordinary life.
What Andrew’s Working On
Andrew and Nate are building Inhabit, a nonprofit about living in community the way the Bible describes it. Its first tool is a prayer app for married couples, guiding a husband and wife through 30 days of praying out loud together, with prayers and readings for each day. Andrew plans to launch it alongside the Inhabit website.
Music is part of the same work. Andrew’s worship album, Songs for a King, was written “to make much of our King.” He and Nate also share Psalm-based worship as The Psalm Guild.
He is also editing a book, still untitled, built around a simple question: “All right, I’m saved. Now what?” It walks through Scripture from start to finish, tracing the thread that shows how to follow Jesus.
Final Thoughts
Andrew’s conversation keeps faith and ordinary life in the same frame: a habit named before a mission trip, a person met in the middle of practical service, and prayer intended for ordinary weeks.
He offers his own account rather than a formula — what changed in his life, and where service began for him.
Change often begins with a prayer.
Key Takeaways
- 01A prayer offered before a journey can mark a turning point someone is ready to name.
- 02Practical service begins with the person in front of you.
- 03Personal connection is part of the work, not a side effect of it.
- 04Faith can take everyday form — in prayer shared by married couples, and in discipleship projects.