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

Thank you Sheila Taylor 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):

71%

87%

87%

65%

56%

50%

56%

56%

53%

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 spreading the Word of God and professing my faith to others hoping it will spark something or plant a seed for them to want a deeper relationship with Christ.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I feel drawn to those that are hurting and feel that grace, mercy and hope are desperately needed in our society.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I enjoy helping with projects by finding and delegating responsibilities to those that have unique gits and talents.

[H]eart

1. 1. I adore being a wife and mother, raising our 4 children to become future Kingdom leaders

2. 2. I enjoy volunteering at my children’s school (Concordia Academy) and working in the learning center

3. 3. I enjoy working with individuals tat are struggling to help them find hope and direction

I love to work with children and young adults.

Children’s ministry through the school and church is important to me as I look for ways to keep kids of all ages engaged in living out the Word in an ever-changing society

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
At-risk children

[A]bilities

Stay at home mom with MSW

Practicum experience as a program therapist, treatment foster care parent recruiter and trainer
Community Treatment Aide working with families on targeted behaviors identified by therapist, speciically children with behavioral disorders

I enjoy connecting with people to identify needs, provide encouragement and support and devise a plan o action to accomplish those goals.

parenting skills, treatment foster care, Sunday school and VBS

Connecting and communicating with others

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

People Driven

Leader

50-50 Routine/Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Lion’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Retriever’, and here are the descriptions of your Personalities, and how they can be used for God

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

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 was baptized as an infant in an LCMS church in 1978. I have been an active LCMS member my whole life.

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and School- Tampa, FL
School Board Liason
PTL VP
Substitute Sunday School teacher

Immanuel Lutheran Church- Bossier City, LA
preschool board member
substitute Sunday School and bible class leader
VBS volunteer

raised in small town Nebraska around extended family

graduated from Concordia University with BA in Psychology and UNO with MSW

becoming a military spouse and staying home to raise our children

poor choices in college years taught me about ending up in circumstances you never intended and allowed me to have more empathy for others that end up in situations they never imagined

losing friends due to their judgement, their relationship or lack morals has helped me understand forgiveness

being a military family has brought a lot of situations and unexpected hurts and working through those situations from a faith-based perspective has enabled me to grow from those undesired experiences and put those lessons to use helpign others struggling with similar situations

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. making Christian education available and affordable to everyone regardless of socioeconomic status

4. use my life experiences to bring hope, help, healing, and most importantly Jesus to hurting families in an affordable, accessible manner

5. Foster/adopt children and teach them about Jesus