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

Thank you Amberlyn Cioara 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):

31%

68%

65%

68%

71%

40%

53%

75%

75%

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 want to help people feel loved and I enjoy coming alongside of them and helping with the things they need done, like cleaning or cooking.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I feel I can explain things in a relate-able way to help with understanding. I also feel a strong responsibility relay information accurately.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I know that I need mercy, and as just as I need God’s mercy, so do others.

[H]eart

1. Helping friends who are struggling by inviting them over for food and tea and just letting them talk and being there to listen.

2. Giving money to help “Streetlight Ministries” and other similar ministries against trafficking.

3. Spending time outside observing nature and gardening.

other women about my age and older.

I’m excited that maybe I could help others to express themselves through drawing or teaching them a new song

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Divorce
Other – Human Trafficking

[A]bilities

Graphic Designer

Portrait Painting, Administrative Assistant, Entertaining kids, Organizing information using Excel

Art, Singing, Cooking, Hospitality,

Excel pivot tables

Friendliness

[P]ersonality

Reserved

Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

Follower

Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Retriever’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Beaver’, and here are the descriptions of your Personalities, and how they can be used for God

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

Beaver- Organized. Beavers think that there is a right way to do everything and they want to do it exactly that way. Beaver personalities are very creative. They desire to solve everything. Desire to take their time and do it right. Beavers do not like sudden changes. They need reassurance.

Strength: High standards, order, respect
Weakness: Unrealistic expectations of self & others, too perfect.
Limitation: Seeing the optimistic side of things, expressing flexibility

[E]xperience

I was raised Christian, baptized at 13 because I realized I was sinful and I was terrified of Hell. Soon after, I sinned again by being continuing to be disobedient to my parents and thought I was doomed again. I didn’t realize until church camp a few years later that God had forgiven me for my whole life going forward, not just backward, and that I could never again be separated from him. I also learned that God could use me to help others even when I didn’t feel worthy, I just had to be available, and that made me feel so loved and like my life has a purpose.

TOAG (Training Ordinary Apprentices to Go) – 1 year internship where we practiced sharing Jesus stories with strangers and friends, wrote goals on how we could be more like Jesus, prayed for people, started a house church together, and learned about some of the challenges we might face if we became missionaries.

Bible Study Group – My husband and I have participated and even led several bible studies together with some of our friends for many years now

Small mission trips – I have gone to the Indian Reservation in Globe, Arizona with Amor ministries to help build houses twice, and once with Sun Valley Community Church to Rocky Point, Mexico to help put a roof on a church building.

When I talked to a girl at church camp, and she shared about what was going on in her family and it helped her feel loved by God, it made me feel so special to know God could use someone like me to help someone else know God.

I once was reading the story of the “good Samaritan” right before going to help train someone for my old job. I felt like God wanted to use me, but I didn’t want to be late for my commitment. But I made a wrong turn anyway, so I decided to stop and help someone who had a flat tire on the side of the road. I had a jack in my car that I let him use, and in talking with him, I found out he was a Muslim man and I got to share two stories about Jesus with him. I even got to pray with him. I was late for my commitment, but it turned out to be alright, and was so worth it. Again, I felt honored that God used me in that situation, and all I had to do was just be obedient to where I thought God was leading me even though it was out of my comfort zone. (But I do always want to be careful and observant to make sure that I’m not going into a dangerous situation.)

I’ve gotten to know a wonderful group of Muslim ladies through ASU, and they are good friends of mine still today. I feel honored and special that I have this friendship with them and get to experience bits and pieces of their culture and be a part of their lives. I hope and pray that one day they will know Jesus, and that in the mean time that I will be a good example of someone who follows Christ, and that they will see something different in me and want to know Jesus.

One of my friends is going through a really hard time right now because her husband was not faithful to her. It’s hard to see her heartbreak, and even harder to pray to God for her husband when I feel so angry about it. I pray that God will give me a heart of mercy in praying for him and that he will come to know God if nothing else.

Another friend of mine lost a child, and a group of people told her a lot of very confusing things about God which hurt her and her husband so badly. I wish that I had been more involved in her life at that time, and that I was more understanding of the bible, so that I could have realized what they were saying was wrong and given Godly counsel, even if I don’t know if that would have made a difference. But it does make me realize that it’s so important to be reading the bible regularly so that you discern the difference between truth and what is counterfeit.

When I was going through the ministry internship, my family was not happy about it, some of them threatened to never talk to me again if I went to another country on a mission trip. It was a very stressful time between me and my family. Because of this, I can relate at least a little to someone whose family has cut them off due to religious differences. I worry about my Muslim friends that if they ever converted to Christianity that their families might cut them off, and it scares me for them. I pray that their families would also come to know Christ. I know that God cares for them so much.

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. Host / volunteer to help homeless people express themselves through art

4. Sketch / paint people’s portraits or portraits of their loved ones for free

5. Start an orphanage in Iraq, (or in another country, if God wants I won’t be picky) but I would need a lot more experience to do something this difficult