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

Thank you Ashley 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 (in alphabetical order):

53%

59%

56%

34%

40%

50%

53%

37%

56%

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:
Is talking about Jesus and I talk about him, although I don’t know that I talk about him with others as often as most other evangelists I know.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
This is my natural wiring, when someone is down I automatically try to cheer them up. Consistent encouragement is my life-well.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I enjoy learning and being able to share with others, especially when it’s something I understand well and they can benefit from too. I also believe I understand more when I am charged with teaching it because I want to be prepared for questions and to be able to give further insight into what we are learning about.

[H]eart

1. Spending time with family and friends.

2. Swimming and exercising (especially outdoors)

3. Writing/expression/speaking/explaining

Youth, specifically athletes

Excites: prayer, community activities

Marriage/family issues
Spiritual laziness
Health/fitness

[A]bilities

office administration

missionary, back office work, front office work, swimming coach/lessons instructor, life guard

Breaking down information and explaining it to people in relatable and easy to understand terms/ways.

swimming technique, nutrition in relation to swimming/athletics, story crafting

Assistantship/Associateship – being able to lead, guide and teach in a capacity with some autonomy while also not bearing the full weight of everything in a full leadership role. I like to share the responsibilities and have someone to work with while still maintaining some autonomy and room for growth and experimenting with my own personal style.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Team

Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Otter’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Retriever’, 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

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

[E]xperience

Grew up in a Casual Christian, really starting owning my faith in college. Hit a really rough patch during Jr and Sr year of college but that year after the Lord’s continual pursuit I felt like I had come home. That’s when I really starting investing in my faith.

Pawa’a Community Church – youth leader, children’s ministry, Unreached People Groups prayer leader

Crimson Class Internship – overseas missions teaching english through bible stories, camp leader

Fellowship of Christian Athletes – Summer Intern, Sports Camp and Leadership Camp huddle leader

Helping explain the love of christ to new and current believers and seeing them come to realization of how loved they are

seeing people who have never known christ before come to know him, accept him and want to be baptized/getting baptized

having strong relationships with people who are of the same mind and want to help and encourage you through difficulties of life, offering sound and wise advice.

several terrible coaches throughout swimming

depression and counseling

feeling unfit to be a leader as well as feeling out of place in areas I thought I would fit right in and finding that to be untrue.

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. Living/Serving in China for a season

4. Being a swim coach – guiding youth through action

5. teaching/encouraging others to be passionate about God & His work