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

Thank you Christopher J Fraley 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%

84%

84%

71%

65%

62%

78%

53%

84%

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 believe all should be given the opportunity to hear and live God’s word. To have a relationship with Jesus, and no that in a broken world there is still Hope.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Because I was once one who needed so desperately to hear words that lifted me up, instead of the words used that broke me down for years.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love helping others to learn, to process and understand.

[H]eart

1. Spending time with my whole family, making memories.

2. Helping those that are broke down or forgotten, sharing my story of overcoming with the help of Jesus, and the disciples He put in my path to guide me.

3. Speaking truth into the next generation of leaders of this world. Helping them to break free of the confines of their culture and this world to embrace the love and message of Jesus, and how they can make a difference to thos ethey come in contact with.

Youth, adult,middle aged, elderly. I can work with them all if given a chance, we all have a story. I am primarily around youth and adult aged individuals at this time.

The churches outreaches, addressing mental health, and poverty issues. Missions

Drug abuse/recovery
Abuse/violence
At-risk children

[A]bilities

main occupation: tile and grout restoration.My heart: the restoration of lives to a loving God

Construction multiple levels; management of business; cook

I can start a conversation in any room I walk in; making people laugh; a good listener; creating a game/lesson quickly

Social media and parenting in a digital age
Bullying

Time

[P]ersonality

Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

Challenger

People Driven

50-50 Follower/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

25 year drug and alcohol dependent/ gangs violence, single parent household. At the end of my rope, depressed, broken, wanting to die, a disciple from Grace church came to me through a crowd of people at a fair offering me a food voucher at a program called Celebrate Recovery. Gave my life at the alter a week later, and the changes that have happened in my life as well as my families… that’s a story I can tell you better than writing.

Grace United Methodist Church Fort Myers Shores Campus
14006 Matanzas Fort Myers, fl 33905

The people I met in recovery, and the time they took to help me to overcome struggles and things that used to hold me down.

Taylor and Taylor, the 2 youth pastors at our Cape campus who took so much time working with me, molding me and teaching me as I volunteered to work with youth. Being true friends to me in a way that I wasn’t used to.

My wife: who never gave up on me stood at my side even when she didn’t have to. Encouraging and loving me, being the “physical rock” in my life.

Drug addiction

Divorce of my parents/ being left to fend for myself/ learn for myself. Absent parents.

Violence and Abuse. I’ve been the perpetrator and the victim, and I’ve seen and lived them both.

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 build a community center to help youth that are otherwise unable to afford to go to places or experience things that others can.

4. Start a program that takes all: nobody gets turned away for recovery. Long term to help the addict that is still suffering learn that their is a way out.

5. A faith based foster home, where the children come first, and placement is done for them that will accommodate them best where children can be safe while learning about how great our God is.. A comfortable temporary home, while awaiting their parents to get their lives in order, or for a loving family to take them in.