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

Thank you Ginno Mendoza 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):

43%

75%

87%

65%

93%

65%

50%

81%

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 believe that everyone deserves a chance at redemption, it’s never too late. I have always felt a deep appreciation for life, especially in moments of my years in high school and through out life where I nearly ended my own. I’m far past feeling that now, but ever since the last attempt, when I wished in my head for the world to show me a sign, any sign at all that I shouldn’t do it, and I remembered my sister who had passed when I was young, I remembered that I made a promise to myself to keep living for her and to never let the world change who I am. That memory in my moment of extreme peril saved me, my eyes felt like they had opened up to a new world, so I consider life sacred, because we never know what someone is going through or has gone through, we all have our own struggles and challenges, and it’s never to late to be saved from that ocean of darkness.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I believe that sometimes we get so stuck in our own heads and allow ourself to be overwhelmed with our struggles, especially if we have been fighting them for so long that sometimes we fall. It can be hard to get back up and keep going, especially if the only voice in our head is our own. I know the feel all too well myself, and because of it, I always wish to encourage and keep helping those in need by offering the story’s of my experiences and what I’ve learned, words of encouragement that show if you have fallen, you are not back to square zero, you’ve only fallen, the path is still right there, you haven’t lost, you just have to get back up and keep moving forward, even if it’s one step at a time, any amount of progress is a show case that you have not lost. Even when it feels bleak, remember that every morning the sun still comes up, darkness doesn’t last forever, an that in our moments of darkness is where the light shines the brightest just like all the stars in the sky that guide us along our way.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have always felt happy just being helpful in any way that I can, I love to help and make a difference, no matter how big or small, especially to those in need. I’ve been on that end myself for a long portion of my life, so I know firsthand the many struggles and worries one could have. Anything from worrying about if you’re going to eat, be out on the streets because you can’t make a payment to keep living in your house/apartment, to even feelings of loneliness and depression, feeling closed off from the world and not having anyone to help you adding onto that feeling of being alone. I never had help in anything for the majority of my entire life, so if I can do something now to help make a difference, it means a lot to me, because I know how it feels to be on that end of stick and wish someone could help you.

[H]eart

1. I love working on myself, and improving myself in every way I possibly can, from my physical and mental health, learning and adapting to difficulties, to learning how to keep being a better person then I was yesterday and continue to keep that light and hopefulness I have in me for myself but for the sake of others as well.

2. I love helping others, especially to those in need, I just like being helpful anything from completing a small task that nobody wants to do or that doesn’t make much of a difference to something really important or life changing. The world can also be a dark place with many trials and tribulations, anything can happen at a moments notice, so if I can help by being a light in those dark moments then I will want to do whatever it takes to help by being that goodness that the world needs more of.

3. I love to be around those I love and hold dear to my heart, it reminds me that I’m not alone. I cherish every single second I’m with them because there were many points in my life where I had absolutely nothing, no one to support me, no one help, no one to care, everything felt taken away from me, I only had myself to rely on. So now, that I am where I am at now, I am so grateful and I feel so lucky to be here. I’m happy to simply just be alive, I’m happy that I didn’t choose to end my life when I last attempted, because I never would have made it to the other side to see that there’s still so much that’s worth it to keep living for. Every person, every experience, every second that the sun still keeps shining, every chirp the morning birds make, the thought of being lost in death and living in the nothingness of oblivion and not being able to appreciate all that is life, is one I never wish to come close to ever again. I’m just happy I get to live life, and I love that I get to live it with those I love.

I don’t know who I love to work with the most, there’s still so much to learn but I’m sure I will find out through this journey I’m about to make.

There’s still a whole lot I don’t know about, but I’m sure I’ll find out and keep learning more about it to come to that answer.

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Abuse/violence
Health/fitness
Other – Honestly quite a lot of these issue spark a passion

[A]bilities

Currently I’m in the field of physical security.

I have experience in retail like Walmart, Home Depot, dollar store, also for Pizza Hut, and warehouse jobs like Amazon and Fullscript, which is basically the health version of Amazon that deals with a lot of health related products.

I have a keen attention to detail, good interpersonal skills, social skills, i can think on my feet and adapt well and quickly, I’m creative and have out of the box thinking, I’m artistically talented with sketching and drawing on paper, and have a bit of experience in practicing with skin art using artificial skin and a tattoo machine.

I have not taught a class or seminar on anything yet, but it would be interesting to one day try.

I think my most valuable personal asset is my ability to think on my feet and adapt.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

Low Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 People/Project Driven

Follower

Team

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

The process of how a became a Christian was a gradual one. Over the course of mostly my entire life, I have been on my own, relying only on myself to keep myself surviving and deal with my life obstacles whether external and internal. In the year 2020 when Covid was rampant, I lost my mother to the virus, I could not even say goodbye when she passed because of the hospitals protocol of safety for visitors. A few years passed from that day, I lost my uncle who was the closest I had to a father. Depressed, and stricken with an extreme loneliness, I felt I had lost everything that kept me connected to my past memories with them. Gratefully, the Hansen family had taken me in, and though adjusting was rocky, they have taken me into their home and given me a second opportunity to have a family. All the while that I have been searching for this deep connection that I felt I had lost, something that feels like I’m not alone, we had been going to church and though not all the time I would attend, every time I did I felt different, I felt fear, sadness, longing, but also acceptance. After awhile of questioning these emotions I felt that maybe this is what I need, and the more I heard and learned about god and Christ when previously I never knew anything about any of this topic, the more I felt drawn to it, to know more. I wanted to be apart of it because I felt affected by it, I felt it in my very soul and core that this was different, and I wanted to take a leap of faith and try it.

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The Hansen family taking me in as a member of their family.

Connecting with some of the people I’ve met over the course of my life and learning new things be it from learning from their experiences and knowledge to experiencing moments with them.

Choosing to learn and continue to try and apply values I’ve learned and have solidified for myself.

Having suicidal thoughts and having almost committed suicide.

Losing my mother and uncle.

Having only myself to rely on, leading to development of coping mechanisms to continue surviving.

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 would want to be in law enforcement and help make an impact and a difference and peoples lives.

4. I would want a family of my own, and the ability to provide them with everything they need.

5. Travel the world and see everything that’s out there, learn about the different cultures and way of their way of life.