S.H.A.P.E. Assessment Results

Thank you for taking the SHAPE Assessment. We encourage you to meet with a Church Leader that you respect, to go over your results, so that they can help you discover a place to serve in the church and/or community, and also to help you fine-tune your 5 Main Focuses/Priorities listed at the bottom of this email under the ‘Wrapping it up’ section. May God Bless You!

[S]piritual Gifts

Here is how your spiritual gifts scored:

37%

53%

62%

53%

59%

37%

28%

68%

50%

To see descriptions on the Spiritual Gifts and how you can use them to further Christ’s Kingdom on earth, visit this link.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
My profession is nursing – serving, caring, nurturing others

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have a positive outlet and try and reflect that on others

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have sympathy/empathy for those who are “not the normal”, the sick/chronically ill

[H]eart

1. Spending time with family

2. Spending time with friends

3. walking/playing with our dogs

children
ages 2 – 11

Excite me: anything with children

Parenting
Abuse/violence
At-risk children
Other – sex trafficking

[A]bilities

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Nursing x 10 years with cardiac children at Egleston Children’s Hospital

Connecting with parents of various socio-economic status
respecting them as a parent no matter the situation (dirty, poor, rich or “clean”)

Asthma, vaccines, care after heart transplantation

compassion

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

People Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Team

Routine

Your Primary was ‘The Retriever’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Lion’, and here are the descriptions of your Personalities, and how they can be used for God

Golden Retriever- Good at making friends. Very loyal. Retriever personalities do not like big changes. They look for security. Can be very sensitive. Very caring. Has deep relationships, but usually only a couple of close friends. Wants to be loved by everyone. Looks for appreciation. Works best in a limited situation with a steady work pattern.

Strength: Accommodating, calm, affirming
Weakness: Indecisive, indifferent, unable to express emotional, too soft on other people
Limitation: Seeing the need to be more assertive, holding others accountable

Lion- This personality likes to lead. The lion is good at making decisions and is very goal-oriented. They enjoy challenges, difficult assignments, and opportunity for advancement. Because lions are thinking of the goal, they can step on people to reach it. Lions can be very aggressive and competitive. Lions must learn not to be too bossy or to take charge in other’s affairs.

Strength: Goal-oriented, strong, direct
Weakness: Argumentative, too dictatorial
Limitation: Doesn’t understand that directness can hurt others, hard time expressing grace

[E]xperience

Saved when I was 8 years old at summer church camp. Had to write my sins on a piece of paper and then throw the paper into a fire – realized at that time, that if I wanted to become a Christian and have Jesus wipe my sins away – just like the fire. My older cousin was a camp counselor and she led me to Christ that night. I remember calling home and telling my mom and dad – we were all crying. I was baptist that summer, as well.

Experiencing God weekend seminar
AWANA program (cubbies and spark leader/director)
Children’s Committee x 8 years

4-5 year old Sunday School co-teacher x 6 years

Sang in choir
All of these above were at Friendship Baptist Church
Cartersville

Working at Egleston with such sick children – ministering to them and their families through the illness and many times death. Taught me what “matters” and to let the little things go. Listening to the children who were so sick, tell me of seeing “someone in white” standing over them – and then holding their hand and their parents while they passed away – strengthened my faith and belief that god never leaves us. Each experience taught me how to help the next family.

Praying at the age of 30 for a husband and finally totally relying on God – being ok if I didn’t “find Mr Right”. Met Peter because a precious friend was fasting and praying for several of his friends – I was on his list. He met Peter at a job site during his fast and called me to tell me he had met the man I was going to marry. Peter and I agreed to be “set up” and when I met him, I knew he was the one. I didn’t know for months that Jeff had been fasting and prayer for God to send me the right man. That was a HUGE WOW moment.

Birth of our child – after being told it might not be possible due to some typical female issues. Prayed to God to let me have a child, if that was His will – but, that I was (and Peter) okay if we were to just take care of my sick patients.

Being engaged at 23 years of age – after dating x 5 years and calling off a wedding 2 months before it was to take place.

While in High School a very close friend was severely injured in a motorcycle wreck – killing one friend and leaving the other severely brain damaged. Spent months and 2 years helping him recover (from ICU, hospital floor, to rehab and therapies and finally home)

Death of my dad – 9 months of sickness (due to a motorcycle wreck) before his death

Wrapping It Up

The Challenge: Based upon your S.H.A.P.E. Assessment above (the way God wired you), If you knew you couldn’t fail … and ‘lack of money, or time’ was not an obstacle… list your Top 3 Things you would ‘Focus’ your Life on, next to #1 Loving God & #2 Loving Your Neighbor (these would be your ‘3 God-Sized Dreams’ for your life)?

1. My Relationship with GOD

2. My Relationship with Others

• Putting Your Spouse First
• Your Kids Second
• Everyone Else After those

3. Work with children who have been rescued from sex trafficking,

4. Medical missions – work with a charity that travels to foreign countries and cares for orphans that have open heart surgery then helps to place them for adoption

5. Own a huge piece of land – with rescued dogs