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

Thank you Cheri Runyan 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:

65%

84%

96%

75%

93%

68%

68%

87%

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:
I believe we are to use our experiences in life to help others in relatable situations. My heart is for relationships with Christ and one another.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
If I have nothing else to give, I have love. If you truly love someone, mercy is given naturally, easily.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I think we can always find a way to serve, whether it be teaching, lending a listening ear or cleaning a toilet. There is usually something that I can do to jump in and help.

[H]eart

1. I love being a listener to one who needs to be heard. Sometimes that is all that is really needed .

2. I love seeing the eagerness is someone who is beginning to feel the tug of God’s call in their life…when they begin to understand who Jesus is, and that just maybe God is calling them to accept his plan of salvation. I love playing any small part towards that end.

3. I am a relationship person. I love seeing a sense of unity and community in a church. That may be in a small group, women’s or men’s ministry, youth group etc. I love to facilitate those relationship opportunities. I have led Bible studies, but I think I feel most fulfilled just helping facilitate relationships being built.

Age, gender, background …I don’t feel drawn to one more that another. I guess if I had to choose it would be to reach out to who our former pastors wife chose to call the losers. Those that do not seem to “fit” anywhere else.

It all excites me. Children’s church, women’s ministries, and a good calling ministry. I think we need to be reaching out to those that may be hurting and feel like the church doesn’t see or care. Also calling on those we notice may be dropping off in attendance or participation. hospital visits.

Marriage/family issues
At-risk children
Disabilities

[A]bilities

Administrative Assistant-Treatment Plan coordinator for pediatric dentist

All my adult life it has been dental

I have training in calling/caring ministries. I was a commissioned lay pastor for First Baptist Church/Peoria.

I have taught a CE class to pastors on Listening skills. I have also taught classes in a group setting in other churches wanting to establish or grow a calling/caring ministry.

Empathy without taking ownership of someone else’s situation

[P]ersonality

Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 Follower/Leader

50-50 Routine/Variety

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

When I was 11 I realized that believing in Jesus was not enough. I had to consciously acknkowledge that I was sinner in need of Jesus, and I had to accept that gift. I didn’t matter that my parents believed…it didn’t matter that i went to Sunday School and Pioneer Girls…I had to take this step on my own.

First Baptist/Peoria from pre-school years until I was 35. involved in lay ministry, teaching Sunday School and led Jr and Sr High youth groups.

First Baptist Church/Goodfield-pastors wife

First Baptist Church/Farmington pastors wife

Having Christian parents, grandparents, aunts ,uncles and cousins. Faith talk was always a huge part of my life

Training for becoming a lay pastor and the time I spen working in that capacity. Working closely with a clinical psychologist that read and critiqued my verbatims and helped me grow

Being allowed to serve as a pastors wife was a huge blessing to me. it was a richly rewarding season.

Marriage to a bi-polar person was quite a lesson in mental illness, personal pain, and growth. I had to accept that there is a co-dependency aspect of that illness and realize it was not my responsibility to fix him, or clean up after his messy situations.

Dealing with aging parents while still having a child at home and also having a grandchild. Dealing with Alzheimers/nursing homes…all the things that go on on that stage of life.

Dealing with the death of a grandchild…dealing with your child hurting from the death of their child. That loss is different from losing a spouse, or a parent.

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. I would like to develop another “Dream Center” type facility offering real solutions to real needs

4. I would serve my God and the church will all that I am and I would be obedient too any call on my life

5. I would pour money and time into Second Chaance Church utilizing all that this building has to offer. It would be open 24/7. it would be a beacon to anyone lost, hurting, seeking, needing….a community center providing in ways I can’t even imagine with my practical mind