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

Thank you Christy Costanza 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):

40%

59%

75%

71%

71%

40%

34%

56%

56%

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 am a mental health nurse practitioner, in my role as a provider, much of my day is spent in encouraging others to make changes to their lives if they want to improve their wellbeing

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I give freely and happily, “you can’t out give God!”

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Again, as above, my day is spent w/ those who are broken, those who need compassion.

[H]eart

1. Spend time w/ my son.

2. Learn from and be encouraged by God’s word.

3. See others succeed or overcome obstacles.

Those w/ mental illness and children.

Historically, I have enjoyed children’s ministry and missions. I have not done either in many years.

Parenting
At-risk children
Disabilities

[A]bilities

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

RN

I’m hardworking, do not mind manual labor. Knowledge of mental illness, addiction.

I use to teach in AWANA, children’s church and led a tween girl Bible study in my home, also hosted Bible study groups in my home – all of this was yrs ago;

My willingness for God to use me as he sees fit, although that scares me sometimes, I know he knows best.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Team

Routine

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 raised in the church, I became a Christian at a young age and was baptized by my Grandfather.

Seaside Vineyard – Beaufort SC, approx. 2003-2006, set up and take down of equipment at a small church housed in a school auditorium, children’s ministry, led a Bible study in my home, tween girl’s Bible study; painted murals for children’s church, missions

Community Bible Church – Beaufort SC, approx. 2006 – 2013, AWANA, children’s church;

Missionary work in America and Western Samoa and then in Romania

God’s discipline, his forgiveness and his healing, walking w/ me through difficult times in my 30’s

God’s blessing of allowing me to adopt my precious son who was my foster child.

Holding on to an unhealthy relationship while God was trying to give me something better.

Moving to another state away from my family, feeling isolated and alone.

Struggling through almost two years of the adoption process.

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. Working with underserved children in other countries

4. Working with underserved children locally or maybe a camp for kids

5. enrolling in Long Hollow Institute