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

Thank you A. Dean Davis-Smith 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):

59%

78%

78%

53%

62%

59%

59%

65%

78%

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 have God’s Himself accurately seen so that one will know Jesus’s love for them.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I desire to see others see and believe in themselves as God sees them. Lifting one’s spirit gives me joy.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Just as I want others to know the one True God and to have Him reveal himself, I believe I could be instrumental in teaching them.

[H]eart

1. It is my joy to understand what the Bible really says and have it interpreted rightly.

2. I love coming together with God’s children to fellowship and tell our stories, so that we can accept one another.

3. Growing in God’s grace more to be able to give more grace and mercy to others.

While my past passion has been young people, however recently I believe is my second passion,. I enjoy working along side seniors who have given up their faith to believe the God really loves them and still has plans for their life.

Issues of not understand needs and passion of others who are of a different race or ethnicity .

Homelessness
At-risk children

[A]bilities

I am a University of IL retiree, working part time, for the Unit IV MiddlenSchool and a Daily Bread Soup Kitchen volunteer.

I have worked as a counselor for young mentally challenged, Guidance Counselor, Adult Substance abuse Counselor, andAcademic Advisor/Dean at the U of I.

I believe I can communicate with most anyone.

No spiritual classes since youth bible classes in church

Loving people, expecting changes, for the better .

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

People Driven

Team

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

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

I was sprinkled at young 6 yr. old in the methodist church with not much more than church attendance that i really remembered. In years following all through college it simply became a ritual, to attend church. Not much of the gospel sank in my spirit. At age 25 when I had my first child. I began to search for myself.

I’ve served at Canaan Baptist church choir, adult Sunday school, and youth Sunday school teacher, for approximately 10 years, here in Urbana.

I server at New Covenant Church teaching pre-school Sunday school, sang in the worship chorus, here Champaign for 8 years.

I am currently serving at Stone Creek Church on The First Impression’s greeting team, and work in the nursery. for approximately 12 years.

Having my children and watching them not only develop in to their own personalities but experiencing the changes i n myself to want to be a better person .

Coming in contact with lots different teachings like Live Like Jesus to help believe I am who God says I am.

Continuing to experience the beauty of God’s people and both in and outside of God Kingdom.

Racism has been a part of my past as early as I can remember. “But God” has deliberately placed me in places to overcome my fears and hate to bring acceptance.

Finding my way as a divorcee with 3 children to raise and afterwards finding myself with an empty nest without anyone around to positively relate to. It has created in my a hunger for being in the fellowship of other saints.

I believe that choosing to ignore my negative feeling for things such as biracial relationships in my family, has helped my in my christian walk.

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. To see to it all of my family will be with me in heaven when Jesus returns.

4. Experience a world of nothing but TRUE Love for everyone.

5. Walk around hear on Earth to see it the way God intended, in all it’s slender.