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

Thank you Anna Beaulieu 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):

46%

43%

71%

71%

78%

37%

53%

90%

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 love to help people seeing a smile appear on their faces when they receive the help. I love serving so that others burdens are lightened. I’m definitely a Martha.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I’ve been through difficult situations in my life and have been shown mercy. I feel I am lead and able to show mercy to others who seemingly would not deserve so as Christ has shown me mercy. I’ve been involved with groups who help the orphaned the poor, the widowed and shut-ins.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love teaching people things they knew not before. I love being a teacher‘s assistant, and helping translate so A student can understand fully what a teacher was trying to explain.

[H]eart

1. I love the idea of people getting together having tea or eating a meal discussing the Lord and how he’s worked in their lives are being taught lessons of the Lord.

2. I love helping people organize either objects or people. I like seeing order and things functioning as best as they can.

3. I enjoy singing, praise the Lord, whether it be in my own private home, inquire at church or leading worship.

I have always enjoyed working with the senior citizens. I have come to learn to work with my own Pure group. I like working with the hurting people or people who are longing for something for as their needs are met in the physical. You can meet their needs in the spiritual, and seeing the light of Christ in their eyes is all I need.

One ministry I enjoyed a lot was the church would have a potluck after service on Sunday and the congregation would gather and enjoy a fellowship in a meal. Right now the CR that meets on Thursday nights needs praise team leader I’ve been helping out with that.

Marriage/family issues
At-risk children
Disabilities

[A]bilities

I currently do not have a job. My last job was in home hospice care.

I was an assistant had cooked for two years. I’ve been a receptionist. An event coordinator. Daycare for four years and taught Sunday school for 12 years.

Floral ranging, meal planning, coordinating events, encouraging sisters in Christ

I taught classes on Christian character qualities to children ages 4 to 12 six years in a row

Willing to serve others.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

High Risk

Challenger

People Driven

Leader

Team

Variety

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

I first accepted Christ as my personal Lord and Savior at the age of four. At the age of 29 after having disowned God, I recommitted my life to Christ since then I have continued to grow in my relationship with Christ, looking to him to fulfill all my needs.

I first served in Sunday school at North Heights Lutheran Church in Arden Hills, Minnesota. I was an assistant Sunday school teacher for four years and a Sunday school director for three.

I taught children character qualities with a ministry called IBLP for 15 years I travel to different states and different countries. They were usually seminars that were six days. Children aged 4 to 12 I’d either be an assistant teacher or a head teacher.

Messiahs, East Gate Church in East Saint Minnesota, Sunday school Director for two years.

Teaching with IBP character qualities that children should live by really affected me in that when a child received Christ as their Lord and Savior the calmness that would overcome them in the light that would shine in their eyes.

Messiahs East Gate Church East Saint Paul, Minnesota. I did the floral arrangements and made sure that the colors and candles were correct according to the Lutheran calendar. I was also the Sunday school Director for two years.

On a mission trip to Singapore going to churches there seeing how the people worship God in their faith in Christ really challenged me to have a more full understanding in Christ and that he really is my all in all.

At Messiahs East Gate Church they decided to change in staff was needed without talking with me. I was informed I would no longer be directing Sunday school. I held a bitterness for a while towards the people there and God. I have come to see that it was his will for me in my life that it was time for me to move on.

Attended an IBLP church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After attending there for about a year, I came to realize that they don’t talk about God‘s grace. If you were dressed wrong or accidentally said the wrong thing or didn’t have the correct answer you were kind of shunned. After feeling shunned, I no longer attended that church. Now I strongly believe in God’s mercy and grace and only wanna attend churches that speak about God’s grace. I want to learn to show grace to others, learning to love those who would be shunned.

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. Being part of an organization or ministry around the widowed or the senior citizens in our church.

4. Singing in the choir at church. And leading worship for Celebrate Recovery.

5. Helping or organizing a ministry involving food and Pete fellowship