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

Thank you Elsa Godwin 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:

43%

75%

84%

62%

53%

65%

53%

59%

59%

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 talking with people and listening. If someone has something to say or needs advice, I am more than willing to listen and offer pieces of encouragement. When people are upset, discouraged or in need, I am very passionate about feeding truth and encouragement to them. I have an outgoing personality which fits well with the gift of exhortation/encouragement.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Everyday I am surrounded by people who believe different things, come from different backgrounds and go through different struggles. Before I developed a relationship with Christ, I was very easily swayed in decisions and conformity was a struggle of mine. Although this is still true sometimes even as a believer, I feel much more confident in sharing the gospel to classmates, teammates and people in my community. I enjoy talking with people and having Jesus in the center of everything I do always opens the door to speak of Him in my daily life. God definitely created me to be a relational person, and evangelism is much more natural when I already have the desire to tell people of Jesus in my everyday circumstances. It can be difficult for me to start a conversation about Jesus with people I don’t know but with people in my school and on my team, the conversation often comes naturally.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
In all honesty, I don’t know quite how this is one of my gifts. I wouldn’t say I have a very good sense of predictions or future events. But who knows!

[H]eart

1. I absolutely love talking with people and developing relationships. I love having real and transparent conversations with a variety of people. We live in such a broken world yet everyone masks their hurt and struggles. I really find joy in having authentic, genuine and honest conversation with people.

2. I love to write. Writing has always been the most natural way for me to express my feelings. It has also created a wonderful communication system with Jesus. I often write down my prayers or how I’m feeling on a certain day so that I can remember and look back on all that God has done. Writing for me, has always been a natural gift and God has already used my love for writing in amazing ways in my life and in the lives of others.

3. I love exploring and adventuring. The world around us (God’s creation) has always been the most evident proof of God. I love being in God’s creation and soaking in the beauty of the world around me. It gives me peace!

I love working with people who have a outgoing and energetic personality. I love having fun and laughing as much as possible and I work well with people who enjoy that as well.
I also have been told that I am more mature than most people my age. This would explain why I have always enjoyed working with or being around people who are older than me. I love the wisdom and maturity that comes from people who are 3-10 years older than me. I get alone better with people a little older than me because I feel our personalities and maturity levels match more evenly than people my own age.

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Divorce

[A]bilities

Student

Athletic, leadership, communication, sympathetic, writing, good listener

leadership

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

High Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

Leader

Routine

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

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

[E]xperience

I grew up in a Christian home but it was always more of a routine, rather than a relationship. I didn’t have very good friends in middle school and going into high school I really struggled with identity and others approvals. Throughout high school I got involved in youth group and God placed a few mentors in my life who I came to adore. My Sophomore year I went to Dickey Lake bible camp and Life Conference 2016. Those trips were the turning points in my relationship with God. I knew I wanted more and I understood that being vulnerable with others can often lead to breaking down built up walls. After that summer I got more plugged into church, pressed into God and began actively pursing a deeper and intimate relationship with our Heavenly Father.

Middle School Youth Leader- Zootown Church
2016-2017

Misson Trip to South Africa
June-July of 2017

Meeting my mentor/friend, Paige. Paige was the first person (older than me) who reached out to me when I first begun going to youth group. Since then we have become wonderful friends and have had the opportunity to walk through life and the struggles we face; together. She has been a very influential person in my life and has impacted who I am today.

Growing up in a Christian home. I always had been exposed to Jesus growing up but I never really understood what it meant to have a relationship with Jesus later. If I hadn’t grown up in a christian home I have no doubt that I would be a different person today. I have had a strong foundation since birth and without that I may have strayed much farther than I did.

Dickey Lake Bible Camp. In all honesty, my mom made me go to Dickey Lake the summer after my freshman year of high school. It was the best decision ever! I met wonderful people who are still in my life today and that is definitely the place that God spoke clearly about the life I could live if I chose to follow Him.

Growing up I didn’t have very good friends. Girls who gossiped all the time, obsessed over boys, bullied one another, created drama and never cared about anyone but themselves. I really struggled with fitting in and for a long time, I conformed to their ways. But looking back, having those types of friends helped me discover who I am in Christ eyes and also allowed me to sympathize and relate to those who don’t have a relationship with Jesus.

My relationship with my dad has always been a little rough around the edges. We are both opinionated people and the older I got the more I realized we see things much differently. With that, it has always been hard for me to communicate with my dad and share our feelings. People always said I lived in the “perfect christian home” but I always knew that wasn’t true. Working through and building a stronger relationship with my dad has allowed me to also be encouraged when other relationships in my life are struggling. Or when other people have issues with family or relationships. Being able to realize that relationships take work and God created us all differently. It takes effort and commitment to love a person despite their differences.

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. be a speaker all over the world- teenage girl focused

4. go on a mission trip to a variety of countries

5. talk with women/girls who are considering abortion