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

Thank you Kerstin Lehndorf de Dimas 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:

93%

90%

90%

78%

96%

59%

93%

71%

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 have compaction for others especially the hurting and sick. I enjoy encouraging others

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I like organizing things and people to make everything more efficient.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I enjoy encouraging others and teaching them about God’s truth, I have desire that people will find their gifting and role in the body of Christ. When I feel people are wondering away from the church I want to run after them and bring them back. I love to comfort the hurting.

[H]eart

1. I love helping and encouraging others, making a difference in someones life. I’m happy when the time I invested in people brings a positive change in them.

2. I love it when things in the church run smoothly and when we can safe Money by buying smarter, I like organizing events and such. .

3. It brings joy to me when I can help people find their place in the church and also when I have the chance to share with non-Christians about my Jesus. I also love to do practical things.

women of any age, kids , sick people, hurting people

I love missions, women ministry, kids ministry, outreach ministry., i love hospitals feel at home there, ready to serve.

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Marriage/family issues
Abuse/violence
At-risk children
Other – Missions and aid work, disaster relief, nursing

[A]bilities

office manager

RN in Germany
Nurses Aid – Canada
Buyer – Canada
Material manager – Canada
Clinical assistant – Canada
Lunch supervisor – Canada
Nanny – Canada

year of experience in children ministry, women ministry, per-marital counseling, pastoral care , I speak German and English and little Spanish, chaplain and team leader, camp director (40 girls), I have participated and lead outreach ministries including campground evangelism, I can adapt fairly quickly and I’m good at reading people and encouraging people, I’m a good cook and baker too and have the gift of hospitality.

bible lessons, German lessons,

I’m pretty flexible and adapt quickly, I can lead or follow, and I can always find something positive and I have creative ideas to improve things. I’m very visionary when I see people not just in their sickness and brokenness but already healed and delivered and serving god according to their gifting, also in any job I had I always had creative ideas how things could be improved to be more efficient, gain more income and safe cost, create environments that are safer for people, create a better team environment, increase individual performance making them feel valued , appreciated and heard.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Team

Variety

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

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 in a communist country. I gave my life to Christ when I was about 10 years old. My parents helped me with that step.
Later in my early twenties I went through a difficult time that turned into a deception and rebellions for a short time until I had an encounter with god. All of a sudden I had conviction and repented and felt Gods love for me so strong and I promised I wanted to serve him all my life.

Evangelisch Freikirchliche Gemeinde Brandenburg, Domlinden 29, Formal East Germany Kids ministry: Evangelism, youth ministry, visitation ministry, girls camp leader
South side Pentecostal assembly, Edmonton, Canada:
Pioneer Girls – guide , Resource room assistant, Mission trip to Europe
The Park Church – PAOC church in Sherwood Park, AB, CANADA:
Children’s ministry, VBS, Sunday school teacher, Women ministry team, started ministry for single moms, organized big Valentines event for Single moms, and outreach indoor Playground program named “PlayRadise” , young couples ministry, Mission committee member, missions teams mostly to Mexico, helped with Operation Christmas Child as church became a collection center, hosted international students and stared outreach ministry for them in form of Christmas banquet, ALPHA , started prayer ministry with the wives of the Board members. Being a Pastor’s wife I got to practice hospitality, we had a lot of people come over for meals etc.
North West Family Church, Calgary Alberta, CANADA
Sunday school teacher, together with husband started and organized yearly , Valentines Banquet for couples , volunteered with Samaritans Purse: shoe box ware house sorting boxes, Mission trips to Ecuador, Paraguay, Costa Rica , group leader on large mission trips. Organized OCC shoe-box collection at the church and at work.

Devon Community Church – Devon, AB Canada
Children’s ministry(Sunday school teacher, VBS, kids outreach ministry)
Women’s ministry leader – started small groups for women, started outreach events, started care ministry for women, centralized church supply purchasing, organized kitchen teams, part of leadership team for planning big outreach events, hospital visits, helping people with addictions, one on one discipleship and pastoral care, together with my husband we are certified Pre-Marital counselors and counseled several couples , we also organized yearly Valentines banquets and Valentines events for singles and hosted the youth and young adults as well as other church groups at our home.
Prayer ministry – organize and lead personal prayer session with people, house prayer, organize teaching sessions for Prayer team, part of Sunday ministry team.
Together with husband Mission team leaders for SP (Nicaragua, Costa Rica) Chaplain with the Rapid response team with Billy Graham evangelistic Association (Ottawa), Serving as part of Spiritual Care team through SP USA (Liberia 2x, Cameroon and Mongolia) we also served at a Billy Graham conference as Volunteer coordinators, I also have served as translator for Mission team, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, my husbands preaching in Germany.

Seeing god working through me. Many time I though “I can not do this, it’s too hard or too big”, but as I stepped forward in obedience and God did the rest. It is true: His power is big in our weakness.

Serving in Missions opened up my eyes to other cultures and the beauty of God in each nation and the beauty to be part of the body of Christ regardless of where in the world.

Seeing God answer prayers, seeing god at work in people, healing people and setting people free, encouraging people, restoring hope, changing them and changing me overtime, that is so beautiful to see and is such a reflection of gods power.

My rebellious time with the great God encounter to follow helps me to understand how deception works and how great Christ’s love is for us and that he longs to have close relationship with us. That He pursues us.

I had to move several times, learned to adapt and start over and to trust God with all my heart. Its easier if the move was my choice. Its harder to move to follow where your husband wants to go. I can now understand people that have to adjust to different social status, different work, different church , different language, different culture. I can understand people that have to go through these changes and I can relate to the loss they experienced. Growing up in a communist country and now living in a democratic country helped me to understand how it feels to be persecuted for your faith, I appreciate the freedom more, than people that had it all the time. I understand how people in an atheist society think. I know how it feels to be spy-ed on and listened to all your phone conversations, all your letters are read by secret agents…how you can not be safe at work because some of your co-workers and friends work for the secret police and may turn you in if you say the wrong thing. I know how it feels to be beaten and made fun of because for being a Christian and still finding way to share the Gospel. I also experienced that the body of Christ looks out for each other and denominational barriers come down when there is a common thread of persecution.

I have lost close friends and loved ones through sudden death and through illness, I also had a miscarriage. The experience of loss in my own life helped me to understand other that are experiencing loss.

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 do more mission work or international aid work, It was my dream to be a Pediatrician , but I was not allowed to study in East Germany and now here in Canada my nursing background does not count for anything either.

4. I would start an orphanage in Africa or south America and just love the kids and I also would open a center as part of the church that houses seniors, single moms, Teenagers with no home, people trying to come off addictions. …and create a God center where people help each other and care for each other like in a big family and where people get transformed by God’s love.

5. Life I would build a healing center for people to recover from trauma, where counselling and spiritual guidance and prayer ministry is available in a beautiful setting where people can go for walks and bike rides, horseback riding, programs for men women, kids and families available, it would have a pool and hot tub, gym, running room and more, massage therapy and physiotherapy available as well as sessions that teach live skill.