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

Thank you Abby O’Malley 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):

75%

81%

93%

75%

59%

75%

71%

34%

81%

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:
God has given me a heart for meeting people where they are, walking with them, validating them, encouraging and challenging them with truths, supporting them to seek more. More connection, deeper relationships, greater health, and resiliency in Christ. I want more than ever for people to connect with Christ personally and day by day take intentional steps to become more and more like Christ and receive His promises and experience the extraordinary life He has for us.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I truly care about speaking about Jesus as often as I can because I want people to know what he did for me and that Jesus wants to rescue them too. I’m shamelessly all about Jesus and all my friends and family know this, because I talk about it often. I try to just live my life authentically, fully open with the ugly and the beautiful, and point it back to Jesus, my personal testimony is a heavy but beautiful one. God delivered me from a painful life and gave it purpose. I’ve been through a lot, and God has used that to equip me to be able to meet anyone where they are no matter what it is they are facing. I’m grateful that I can connect with others and point them to Jesus.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I’m good at talking people through things. I think I’m best at teaching concepts. Psychology and mental health are my expertise and I enjoy teaching mostly in that realm. mental health and healing is very much connected to Jesus.

[H]eart

1. Sing for Jesus and lead people into a place of authentic worship of God.

2. Intentionally love people in the way they need/receive love.

3. Connect with people and have deep meaningful relationships.

I absolutely love working with all ages and types of people! I work with adults, adolescence, teens, children, and babies! I just love people.

Worship ministry excites me the most.

Abuse/violence
At-risk children
Other – Mental health support and knowledge

[A]bilities

Currently a nanny and pursuing a masters degree in mental healthcounseling

Addiction treatment, hospitality, director of outreach @life church

Multi-faceted and adaptable for many different roles and needs, God gifted me with a singing voice, leadership skills and experience,

Basic Firearms safety course

my heart I deeply care and give my all to everything I do

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

People Driven

Leader

Team

Routine

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

Definitely not a brief story but I’ll try to sum it up.. My father was a Reverend and I was raised in the faith and don’t remember a time when I didn’t believe in Jesus. I definitely was not following Jesus, however. But it became serious for me in 2018 when my life reached rock bottom and I had come to a point where only Jesus could save me, so I chose him as an adult and haven’t turned back since.

Director of outreach @ life church Norton August 2019- January 2021

Youth leader @ life church Norton June 2018 – January 2021

Worship team vocalist April 2018- March 2020
Group worship leader July 2018- August 2019

Marrying my spouse

achieving my black belt over years of training with my sensei Stephen Desfosses

Finding my late grandmothers book written on healing from trauma and dysfunctional family systems from a godly approach.

suffering with pain/ trauma / suicidality / and receiving a difficult but insightful diagnosis of borderline personality Disorder that ultimately changed my life for the good.

Being a victim of childhood emotional neglect and abuse from my mother and others closest to me

bullying Isolation and rejection in relationships in my adolescent and young adult years

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. Be a worship leader

4. Be a Christian mental health counselor

5. Have a big family with lots of children.