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

Thank you Rhonie Black 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:

78%

50%

75%

71%

81%

62%

40%

75%

87%

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 have experience teaching in churches, conferences and seminars.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I work as a psychotherapist and I helped start a multicultural urban church in Connecticut with individuals from all socioeconomic levels with emotional, mental and physical problems.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have served on numerous church, association and convention committees. I have directed behavioral health programs.

[H]eart

1. Host small group parties and entertaining.

2. Volunteer for international missions

3. Travel with my husband.

Adults and older adults

Education and discipleship is essential for adults and children and adolescents. I prefer to work with adults and older adults. Women’s ministries too.

Marriage/family issues
Educational

[A]bilities

Clinical social worker-provide individual, family and couples therapy at Masterpeace Counseling Center, Tecumseh, MI.

Clinical director mental health and substance abuse programs, home missionary in Connecticut and international missionary to Brazil.
Teaching church seminars, discipleship programs, Adult Sunday School classes.

Teaching, hospitality, listening and discernment.

Communication, anger management, self-esteem, depression, anxiety, Schizophrenia, coping with dementia/Alzheimer’s disease and adult Sunday School classes

Ability to be open minded and discerning.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

Team

Variety

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

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 grew up going to church as a child. I accepted Christ as my Savior at age 11 after Vacation Bible School. I felt called to the ministry at age 15.

Served as a 2 year missionary in Natal, Brasil from 1982-1984. Taught MK’s and worked at the Baptist Friendship House-church related community ministry. I taught English and Bible study in Portuguese for children. Worked with church youth group at First Baptist church, Natal, Brasil.

Home missionary for the Baptist Convention of New England-1988-2006.
Helped start a multi-cultural urban church using social ministry skills.
Worked on associational committees and Baptist Convention of New England Committees.

Co-led Waterbury Baptist Ministries, Waterbury, Connecticut from 1992-2013.

Observing my mother’s consistent faith as she coped with Schizophrenia.

Working as a missionary in Brasil and Connecticut.

Working as a therapist in hospital psychiatric units, community mental health agencies, hospital critical care units, nursing school and convalescent homes.

Coping with father’s alcoholism and mother’s Schizophrenia.

Going through my divorce in 2013. After divorce,Christian friends distanced themselves from me and did not communicate with me anymore.

Leaving the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board due to disagreement over theological beliefs.

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. Participate in international mission trips.

4. Volunteer in a local ministry- just not sure which one.

5. Finding place of service at 1Mosiac