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

Thank you Ashley Cole 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:

81%

62%

71%

62%

75%

50%

46%

81%

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 organizing and making sure that things are running effectively and efficiently.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I’m a people person. I enjoy getting to know others and extending a helping hand.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have a strong conviction to help the “least of these.”

[H]eart

1. I enjoy my family — my husband and my son. I enjoy being with them, spending quality time.

2. I enjoy working at EKU, a school of opportunity, as a librarian. It means so much to me that we’re helping students make better lives for themselves and their families.

3. I enjoy making our house a home — organizing our days, designing the rooms to make them more efficient, etc.

Students, parents, children

Community programs — God’s Pantry, Feed My Starving Children, etc.

Poverty/hunger
At-risk children
Policy/politics

[A]bilities

Librarian

Teaching

Managing projects and events, marketing, design

Critical thinking, information literacy, research

Teaching, Serving, and Discipline–plan, organize, structure and execute

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

Team

Routine

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

I grew up in the church. It’s the only thing I’ve ever known. I’ve swayed in my faith in the past, but I feel that I’m coming back and becoming more comfortable with who I am as a Christian.

I taught an orientation class at EKU. In this class, I met a student that was struggling with being a student and away from home. She wanted to go home even before the end of the first semester, but I convinced her to stay. She came to me later and let me know the impact that it had on her to know that someone cared for her. She’s in her senior year at EKU and it’s still my finest moment as a teacher and librarian knowing that I play such a large role in keeping someone in college.

I helped design the “Future Colonel” program through EKU Libraries. We bring elementary students from our poorest counties in Kentucky to EKU, so they can experience “a day in the life of a college student.” Most of these students do not believe that they belong in college and it is my passion to light a fire in them and to help them pursue better lives for themselves and their families.

Becoming a wife and a mother. Having someone to care for other than myself that depended on my completely. I want to make sure that Ellis grows up to become a kind, strong, Christ follower.

I’m not sure that I consider this a negative experience, but I grew up in a home without a lot of means. I think it made me more appreciative, more accepting, and more determined.

My father left when I was two. It’s odd knowing that one of the two people in your life that is supposed to love you decided that being in your life wasn’t a priority.

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 would serve as an activist for women’s rights, human rights, education, and education.

4. Design programs that protect and empower our at-risk youth.

5. I would write children’s books that encourage strength and love through Christ.