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

Thank you Ana-Elena Jensen 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:

93%

65%

71%

78%

34%

75%

65%

34%

87%

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:
Over 30 years experience personally and professionally designing and organizing projects and events.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Over 30 years teaching adults at graduate level; developed curriculum plan for seeker church and students have commented that they are challenged and encouraged in their learning experiences with me. I make content practical, logical and simple to adopt. And I tell lots of funny stories along the way, so I try to make it fun.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
My heart is to give tithes, offerings and alms. They are a blessing to me and God promises to rebuke the devourer for my sake.

[H]eart

1. Seeing people realize they each have ministry giftings and purpose in their lives and use them for the Kingdom in the marketplace, their families and social circles.

2. The camaraderie and collaboration in groups of Christians – especially when it’s around God’s word. Can be a room of 1000’s or a small group of 4-5. Jesus is among us and it’s palpable. Such joy.

3. Seeing my children and grandchildren become spiritual warriors for the Kingdom.

Young adults (college/young professionals) to older adults.

Discipleship – especially new Christians and helping all Christians find their gifts, passions and skills for the Kingdom.

Spiritual laziness
Educational
Policy/politics

[A]bilities

Program Development and consultant; coach and trainer for local program of a national innovative initiative in health care.

Organization and Human Resources Development in large technology organization.

I am able to take complex and complicated concepts and make them easy to understand and apply. (Statistics, research, etc.) I take the puzzle pieces and make the picture.

Ministry Giftings, Discipleship, College Women maintaining purity, other various Bible studies in classes and small groups.

My integrity and loyalty.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

50-50 Routine/Variety

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

Otter- Otters are very social creature. Otter personalities love people. They enjoys being popular and influencing and motivating others. Otter can sometimes be hurt when people do not like them. Otter personalities usually have lots of friends, but not deep relationships. They love to goof-off. (They are notorious for messy rooms.) Otters like to hurry and finish jobs. (Jobs are not often done well.) The otter personality is like Tigger in Winnie The Pooh.

Strength: People person, open, positive
Weakness: Talks too much, too permissive
Limitation: Remembering past commitments, follow through with discipline

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

Knew of His call when I was 14. At 23 made the commitment after a year of searching through New Testament for what was missing in my life.

Highland Street Church or Christ, Memphis, TN – Involved in College and Young Marrieds groups. Involved in helps ministries for young marrieds events, College retreats and taught class to college women on how to stay pure until marriage.

Decatur Church of Christ, Decatur GA assisted with elementary teaching. I had limited availability to serve with busy teenagers and was enrolled in college courses.

Southwoods Christian Church, Overland Park, KS – Developed new member course and implemented a curriculum in partnership with two others for a seeker church with members who had no background in the Christian faith. Served as a deacon over the adult ministry program.

At 23 I had a dream in which I saw the heavens open and Jesus descend. He reached out to pull me up to him. I woke sitting up in bed with my heart exploding in side my chest. I was the most profound spiritual experience of my life. It has remained with me for the last 47 years.

After 4 years of struggling with a painful/debilitating health condition, I found a church and a group of people who believed in God’s healing power. During that time I had a waking dream in which I was on a seashore in the far east where a woman shoved an oar in my hands giving me an order in a language I did not understand. I found Jesus on the shore and then I was on the shore and he was in a boat about 500 yards from shore. He smiled and asked me to come to him. After some argument that I needed the boat, he smile again and told me to walk on the water. When I finally reached the boat he took the oar, but now it was dark stained and highly polished, “I suppose you’d like to know what this is for.” Yes, I answered. He asked if I would like him to teach me, “Of course, yes, please.” He then gave me instruction that led to taking courses in a Bible college.

During the same period as the seashore incident, I had God literally download a story to me over 3 years about a woman’s struggle to find intimacy with God. I just finished final edits and of those who have read it they have been moved and encouraged. I normally write in the business/professional fields, so novel writing is not my forte. This book was clearly from the Lord. I hope to have it published by summer.

My spouse is a Vietnam veteran and has carried terrible guilt for some of his experiences which have kept him from his true place and role in a life with Christ and as our spiritual head of the family. That has colored our nearly 50 years of marriage and his relationship with his children. When I found out that he accidentally killed 3 of his own men, I knew God had allowed me to have compassion for his guilt and pain.

One of my husband’s frustrations with his war experience is a distrust of the government. His maverick personality has led to some irresponsible behavior in not filing taxes. 10 years ago, that led to an audit that put us in debt to the IRS that we are still paying off. It’s been like being enslaved to the government and has prevented me from retiring until 2020. BUT, one blessing was that when I surrendered to the Lord my fears about the situation, I awoke in the middle of the night to hear God singing over me, audibly, “How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,” It was a hymn I had not thought of fore 35 years. That gave me courage to tell my husband I forgive him. I had to release him and myself and believe God for deliverance of the debt.

Due to physicians over medicating me for chronic sinusitis, I developed a painful debilitating condition, Immune and Adrenal Insufficiency. I could barely stand, walk or think, yet because of the recession/depression my husband was out of work and had to give his unemployment to the IRS, so I had to work for income and insurance, which meant traveling across the country and teaching physicians how to become patient centered. I would teach and consult all day and collapse in my hotel room in nearly screaming pain. The worst of it lasted 3.5 years. It was the care of a compassionate and knowledgeable chiropractor and his colleague that helped me on the road to recovery, which included a significant change in food (no gluten) and taking many supplements to heal my gut. The prayers of the healing ministry at church gave me the hope that I would recover. I felt this was a satanic attack due to it’s intensity and how it debilitated my life. But it was the beginning of a deepening relationship with the Lord that would not change for anything. And I’ve found an amazing gift in prayer for healing for others that often surprises me.

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. Teach about discipleship and ministry giftings for everyone.

4. Write courseware to develop course curriculum on discipleship and evangelism for the church and online classes.

5. Continue courses on spiritual development and the roots of Christianity in Hebrew; travel to Israel again and again.