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

Thank you Ainsley MacLeod 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):

62%

84%

81%

56%

68%

59%

68%

87%

75%

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:
I enjoy being able to show my love of God and others by serving them. I have an overflowing love for other people and enjoy being able to serve them in ways resembling how Jesus served his disciples.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I am not afraid to bring up my faith and to talk to people about how God has changed my life. I enjoy telling others about the wonders and mercies of God through the sending of his son Jesus.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
God gave me the gift of empathy and of being able to emotionally support those who come to me in distress or uncertainty. Being able to encourage others and push them to rely on God in their times of need is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

[H]eart

1. I love to spend time with my friends and family. When I am with them, in any situation it brings me great joy to see all that God has blessed me with.

2. I love being able to use my life experiences to encourage the younger generation that I am around in the youth ministry at my church.

3. I love having new experiences in my life that make me a little uncomfortable and being able to see how God works to get me through the feeling of uncertainty and uncomfortableness.

I love being able to work with youth, roughly in the ages of twelve to seventeen.

In my church there are a lot of gray areas in our youth ministry. It concerns me when I see someone who does not feel welcome in our group and no one aside from me does anything to change that. There are numerous ways to ensure someone feels more comfortable but I think that more than just one single person can take care of. It is easier for me personally to relate to females because I am one so I am able to make them feel more welcomed and comfortable, however when it comes to the guys, they feel uncomfortable and I am unable to disperse of that because I cannot relate to them as easily.

Abuse/violence
At-risk children
Divorce

[A]bilities

Currently I work a part time job at a Chipotle while I am a student at Westfield State University.

I worked as a Youth Intern at my church this summer in our Youth Group Program.

I am good at communication and encouraging people. I enjoy being able to motivate others and I like helping others. I am very adaptable and go with the flow but will also speak my mind if I have an opinion that I think needs to be said.

During my time as a volunteer in my church’s AWANA program, I taught the fifth and sixth grade girls a lesson on being who they were in Christ without having a fear of the worlds point of view.

My ability to connect easily with anyone around me. I like being able to meet people that I don’t know yet. I enjoy being able to make connections with others.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

People Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Team

50-50 Routine/Variety

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

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

[E]xperience

When I was in second grade in our AWANA program, the leaders were teaching about the love that God has for those that he created even though they may not know him. It was that night that I knew that I wanted to know God the way that they were talking about. So I asked my leaders to pray with me and they helped me find the right words to confess my sins and give my life to Christ.m

AWANA Teacher: Eight Years involved at Bethlehem Church in Hampden MA. During this time, I was able to lead a number of different age groups (ranging from pre-school to sixth grade) in lessons, verse study sessions and games throughout the night that we chose to meet.

Work-camp: Hosted by Group Missions Trips, I was able to attend two different Work-Camps. One in 2014 located in Oswego New York, I worked to help a family in a trailer park who had some unfortunate flooding damage to where they lived. The second one was in Pennsylvania in 2015 where I worked to help a single mom finish repainting their house.

During the summer of 2019, I worked as the Youth Intern at Bethlehem Church in Hampden, MA. I led a young adult Bible study where we took an in-depth look into the Book of Mark, I was also co-leading a youth study through specific passages of Psalms. I also participated in different special activities that the church hosts for our youth and young adults.

I have been blessed to be in a pastoral family for my entire life. The grasp that I have on biblical teachings all come from the way that my parents taught my siblings and I. I grew up having theological discussions around the table, my parents would not shy away from the bigger questions that my siblings and I might have had. Being able to grow up in a home that taught us how to create a faith that held firm, gave me encouragement in the times that I was unsure about what the future held.

One of the most positive experiences in my life was meeting my best friend. She is younger than I am by four years but she is the strongest person that I know. I have seen her grow through many different situations in her life, but she has always held strong to the faith and love for God that she grew up with. She pushes me to want to grow and be the best that I can in Christ.

Her love and encouragement for me has given me an idea of how a friend loves at all times. She and I have been friends for eight years and we have learned how to draw each other back from our darkest moments and we have been able to help each other ground our lives in God.

My family and I attend Camp Of The Woods each year, where my parents and I assist in coaching the volleyball intensive camp that is hosted by the gentleman who taught me how to play. During my first year there, I attended the programs that they had for their youth & young adults. One of the nights that they host is their Wednesday night worship, in which they have stations for each person to go to if they want, they also have music playing, and teen staff around the room for those who need to talk to someone. On that Wednesday, I went to talk with one of the female teen staff leaders. During our chat she helped me realize that I had been living in fear and allowing my anxiety control my actions, which is the exact opposite of what God wants for my life. The teen staff leader then prayed over me and for the rest of the week she and I worked on building a Bible reading plan for the rest of the year that would help me overcome living in fear.

Since that night, I have been able to realize the fears that I have and instead of letting it control me, I have given it to God before it consumes me. Being able to get a better grasp at the understanding of God’s power over fear, has given me the ability to not hide away from what scares me.

I was bullied in my youth group and began doubting why anyone would want to be my friend. It became hard for me to participate in activities that were hosted by my youth group. During this time I began to study more about the worth that God has for me and started to worry less about what others thought about me.

This time in my life was one of the hardest that I’ve had to face, it left me alone and unable to participate in the youth group program for a long time. But through this situation, God placed people in my life who drew me out of the hurt and upset that I was facing. He brought others in my life who dealt with similar issues and through them helping me, I now work to make sure that no one is in that situation if I am around. God gave me a heart to want to help others in all areas of life, because I was in a place of hurt by friends I am now able to care for those who are in the same place that I was.

I attend a secular school and have participated in their athletics program as a part of their Women’s Volleyball team. While participating in the program, I was faced with difficulties fitting in because I hold to my faith strongly and since I do not drink, smoke or party, it was very uncomfortable for me to be a part of the team but I made the best of the situation I was in and I stuck to who I am in Christ and was able to get through two seasons. However, after my second season I found myself stuck in stress and dealing with anxiety so I made the tough choice and decided that after my sophomore year it was no longer worth my time and the stress it was causing me.

This situation made me uncomfortable and again begin to forget about the way that God sees me. I had a hard time remembering that it is not my team or my coach who define me but it is God who does. I am now able to relate to others who are struggling with being uncomfortable or who feel like they do not belong in a situation that they are in. God gave me the opportunity to learn how to handle being in a tough situation and I now know how to relate to someone who is in the same place that I was in.

During my years in high school I was able to play volleyball at the high school in the area. While the experience was mostly good, I was put into some situations where I became doubtful of who I was as an individual. I began to focus on the wrong things, like how everyone else saw me and what they thought of me, instead of how God sees me.

This gives me compassion for others because I have an understanding about how they feel when they feel like they are not fitting in. I am able to turn their upset and hurt into something more positive and assist in them getting their eyes/hearts back to God.

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. I want to graduate college, get my counseling certification and be put to use in God’s kingdom

4. I want to change lives. I am unsure how I am going to do that at the moment, but that has been my goal for many years.

5. I want to live a happy life according to the will of God