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

Thank you Dondra Walker 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%

93%

56%

78%

40%

71%

78%

75%

87%

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 love to share my testimony and biblical truths with anyone regardless of age or spiritual maturity.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I strive for others to learn and grow. I love sharing the Bible so new insight can be made.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love to give financially as well as just by helping others.

[H]eart

1. Share about god. I want everyone to have a relationship with Christ.

2. Spend time with family. I love being a wife and mother. As well as spend time with my extended family, which includes close friends and my church.

3. Spend time doing my hobbies. Sing, scrapbook, babysit, and read to name a few.

I love infants the most. If I could pick the situation I would pick one or two adults with the same passion and understanding for babies as me, and a room full of babies.

Singing on our worship team excites me. As well as working with our kids and teens. Our finances, lack of teachers/volunteers, and a lack of families as a whole together in church concern me.

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Spiritual laziness

[A]bilities

Babysitting and office work

Nanny, daycare, and cashier

Working with kids. Scrapbooking, making cards or other do it yourself projects. Singing.

I’m the kids, teens, and missions leader at my local church. As well as the district nursery director. I have taught many Sunday School classes for ages rangeing 2-18. I have done missions emphasis sermons while our pastor was out of town. I have done lessons and activities for kids and teens at their small groups. As well as find and provide curriculum for infants-preschool at district wide functions.

If it’s suppose to be a physical object I would say my family. They help me a lot and are so supportive. If you mean a personal quality for myself I would say love then. Love is why I’m so slow to anger and have the patience I do. Love is also why I care so much for everyone and have the compassion I do.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Routine

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

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 born into a Christian family and raised in the church. I accepted Christ for myself when I was in first or second grade. My faith weakened during an abusive relationship in my senior years of highschool. But was restored and strengthened by my dad never giving up and my husband and kids helping me not to pretend any longer.

Infants-preschool: I have been one of the nursery volunteers at Meadville first church of the Nazarene in Pennsylvania since around 2003. I have been one of the kinder church teachers on and off since around 2006. This year I have taken on being the Pittsburgh Nazarene district nursery director.

Kids and teens: I have been the NYI (Nazarene youth international) president at my local church in Meadville for about four years now. I was the teen Sunday school teacher for about three years. I have also helped at kids club and this year taken on being there leader.

Missions: I am on the church board at Meadville. And on the district children’s council board, and district SDMI board (Sunday school things district wide). I have been planning and organizing a rummage sale to raise funds for kids and teens to go to camp for about three years. I do mission oriented sermons on occasion for about three years now. I helped when our church was doing Angel Food for about three or four years. A brief description would be food at low cost. We would meet at a location early morning with other organizations to unload a semi truck off food. Sort everything out to each locations vehicle or trailer. Then take our trailer to our church to hand out the food to the people in the community who ordered. The people would also order for the next month.

My family. My dad has been my biggest role model. And my husband and kids have taught me so many things.

Camps and I.M.P.A.C.T. I went to girls camp and teen camp as a I grew up. They brought my faith to my level. I grew up going with my family, then my dad, and now my family to family camp. I explain it as the closest thing to heaven I will experience this side of heaven. I still volunteer at kids camp and teen camp and enjoy seeing their experiences. IMPACT was a traveling drama group I did in highschool and I got to use my talents to glorify God at a bunch of different churches in our district. Traveled all over pa.

Miracles. Seeing all kinds of things in life only possible through the power of the Lord. From small to big. Small such as God providing finances where it wasn’t possible, or watching my gas tank literally go from my empty light being on for a while to the gage going up to over a quarter tank. Nothing I did only God. Or big like my husband’s friend being alive. He had died several times after a major car accident where he went out the windshield and hit a tree.

My parents divorce. Like went from a fairy tale to reality. I had to households ran different ways after the divorce. But I used the experience to take the good and bad and apply it my marriage. Keeping the good and remembering the bad so I don’t make the same mistakes.

The abusive relationship I was in. I suffered every form of abuse at seventeen. It helped me be less naive, see my true self worth is in Christ, and become a better me. It made me stronger and had allowed me to speak and share with others who have our are in the same situations.

Dealing with my husband’s ex. She has completely different morals and beliefs. Learning I can’t control everything and also the reality that the state and government honestly don’t care or step in when kids are involved has been a huge eye opener. It’s one we continue to live with. It helps me relate to parents who are struggling with “co parenting” and also with kids in the situation. Letting kids have a voice and doing the best I can to help them.

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. own and operate my own chain of daycares

4. open and operate my own store full of projects and cards I’ve made myself

5. open a place that needy families can get food, clothes, and other supplies and help to get back on their own feet