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

Thank you Daniel Martin 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):

87%

84%

93%

81%

81%

93%

84%

68%

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 find myself often encouraging people who are down and out, or people who just need a good word of encouragement because I see them worn out.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
This seems to come ‘naturally’ to me without even trying. I know this is true because of my gifting from the Lord. I usually use this gift to encourage and uplift those who need to hear it.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Although I would not consider myself highly administrative, but when given the opportunity to do certain duties, I am very comfortable in completing tasks in a timely manner and delegating when needed.

[H]eart

1. I love helping others.

2. I enjoy my alone time with God because it refreshes me.

3. I enjoy public speaking.

Young adults and/or Singles
Then, Older adults (as I used to serve in nursing home ministry)

I am excited to see younger Christians grow in God and seeing them discover who they are in Christ.
I dislike religious attitudes, traditions, and pride concern me.

Marriage/family issues
Spiritual laziness
Other – Young Christian Growth/Discipleship

[A]bilities

I am an Uber & Lyft driver part-time and do some traveling ministry to churches. (ordained through RMAI)

Customer service (retail and food service jobs), cash handling, and some management training.

1) Basic drumming skills (percussion in high school band and drummer at my former Iowa church for 4 years).
2) Basic vocal skill as I was in choir in high school and in the Rhema Choir for 3 years. (tenor)
3) Public speaking, minister, and prayer minister as a Healing Technician & Leader for a total of 11 years.
4) Art – junior high & high school, advanced art classes. Drawing and painting, even though I’m a little rusty now.

I’ve taught basic evangelism training to the people on the evangelism team at Rhema as I used to be a Leader for two years. Also, I’ve taught a class about In Him Realities and Healing at my Iowa church before attending Rhema. And also taught multiple subjects being a Healing Technician at Rhema.

1) I am an encourager. I really enjoy strengthening people.
2) I enjoy leading people in their walk in God.
3) I am able to submit to leadership.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

50-50 Routine/Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Retriever’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Lion’, 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

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

I am born again at the age of 8 at church as I knew I needed Jesus as my Savior at that young age. But, because of the dysfunction in my home, I backslid during my junior high and senior high years. I came back to God through my personal encounters with Jesus as I was about ready to kill my Dad and myself.

I was drummer and vocalist in both the Iowa A/G church and Word of Faith church, a total combined of about 10 years. I did puppet ministry in the children’s church at both the A/G and Word of Faith churches in Iowa, for a total of 6 years.

I was a co-leader of one of Rhema’s nursing homes teams for about 4 years.
I was a co-leader of Rhema’s evangelism team for 2 years.
I was also an usher on Wednesday nights for about 4 or 5 years.
I also was an altar care worker on Wednesday nights at Rhema for 3 years.
I did prison ministry at Rhema for 6 months; it wasn’t a good fit for me.

I was a camera operator at Rhema for a couple years.
I was part of the Connections Team with Emily for about a year at Rhema too.
I was part of the Disaster Relief Team at Rhema for about a year. (I went to Joplin.)
I was a Healing Technician for a total of 11 years and about half of that as a Leader.

My Iowa (Word of Faith) Pastor helped me in so many ways. He not only mentored me in God, but also on how to be a man. He was really more of a father-figure to me.

I went to Mardi Gras for 11 years as part of an evangelism team (in Iowa, A/G ministry). I saw God do so many awesome things in peoples’ lives.

I really enjoyed being a Healing Technician and being mentored and stretched by Mrs. Leigh Ann.

I grew up in a very dysfunctional home life. My Mom was severed depressed all of my childhood. My Dad was verbally and sometimes physically abusive. My Mom passed away in 08′ before I was married.

I was placed in the special ed/behavioral classroom beginning in 4th grade due to a non-medical diagnosis from one teacher. That landed me in that special-ed class for the rest of my elementary, junior high and high school years. I understand that I was depressed as a child because of my home life, but I feel that I should not have been placed in that special classroom my entire childhood.

Because of being in the special ed/behavior classroom, I was rejected by most of my peers growing up. This caused me to then hang out with these behavior-problem kids who were friends with older drug dealers and such. I was friends with people like that because they were the only ones who didn’t reject me.

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 desire to be in worldwide traveling ministry

4. I desire to have three children.

5. I desire to own rental properties.