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

Thank you David Johnson 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):

68%

71%

81%

81%

71%

65%

78%

75%

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:
As management in my first career, and as a teacher for the past 17 years, there is tremendous satisfaction in teaching someone to do something that he/she at first thought they could not do/achieve.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have tithed off and on for most of my life, but consistently for the past 17 years. Is has been a little more difficult after a bitter divorce and some major life changes; however have always managed to give of my time as well as income.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Teaching has been and continues to be very rewarding for me. My journey, with lots of failures and bumps in the road helps me relate to most people.

[H]eart

1. Teaching

2. Creating, building, fabricating; both 2-D and 3-D.

3. Problem-Solving

My professional teaching career has been high school aged students, 14-18. However, working with the 5th & 6th graders this past year has been even more rewarding.

Foreign missions are important; however, I believe the need is tremendous right here in our own back yard.

Educational
At-risk children
Disabilities

[A]bilities

Teacher on special assignment. I currently work at the district level to support, coach, and council all of the Career & Technical Education teachers in the Okaloosa County School District.

Design & Engineering, CAD (Computer Aided Design, 2-D & 3-D), Construction, Fabrication, Graphics, & Manufacturing

Creative, Artistic

Global Marketing (adults, previous career in the Exhibit industry), Robotics, 3-D Modeling & Printing, Design & Engineering Education, CAD (Computer Aided Design)

Empathy, Understanding, Ability to connect with people from all different backgrounds, social/financial status.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

People 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

Accepted Christ when I was 10, Baptist Church. Distanced from organized religion during my late teen & early adult years. Attended & participated in church, UMC, most of my adult life. But my real walk with christ began through working with youth & mission in my previous church, Cumming, GA.

Cumming First United Methodist Church. Working with passionate youth in summer missions to rural Tennessee and Kentucky, to serve and witness the the very poor in the rural coal mining area.

Served on the Mission Finance Committee, 4 years. Youth mission team leader 8 yrs., Graphics and promotional materials for the yearly missions consignment sale. Food Pantry, Family Promise, Thanksgiving Dinner for the community, & Decorations Committee intermittently.

Witnessing the passion of the church’s youth and acting on their beliefs.

Coming to the understanding that the material things in life really don’t matter as much as society tells us they do. This resulted in the leap of faith, leaving a very high paying corporate job, to become a teacher at 1/4 of the salary.

Continuous teaching from my father that we are all equal in the eyes of God. Skin color, social status, looks, etc. have very little weight. When he died in an accident while I was only 15, it really shook up my faith for many years.

Not applying myself in high school, and the up hill battle to overcome this and go to college later than my peers, and to succeed.

Recently, the crumbling of a 14 year marriage, the financial devastation that resulted from the bitter divorce, and having to start over in my late 50’s.

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. Mentor, lead, support our children and help them identify and follow their passion. In my opinion, this is just not done well in our current education system. Students learn “math” with no context of how it is used, “Science”, “Language Arts” and so on.

4. Assist and support our ageing and retired community.

5. Identify, join, and participate in a meaningful small group that would help me grow in my depth of faith.