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

Thank you Tammy Markstahler 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:

53%

81%

93%

78%

75%

62%

43%

90%

68%

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 needed encouragement throughout my life so I’m able to relate well to others who are feeling down, confused, or just need a pick me up.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love serving and helping others! Jesus was a great example of the heart of serving. I feel my heart leading me to help others more than anything else in life.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love to share my testimonies! I have several! I’ve been at the bottom of that dark valley and God brought me out, bright and shiny and smarter! I’m healed in His name! If more truly believed the truth of the Lord and his Word, they would KNOW they can trust Him to provide ALL your needs and without worry!

[H]eart

1. Helping others! In all capacities. We learn from each other, and the more we can spread our light as Christians, the better!

2. Playing, spending time with my husband and my two dogs. Jimmy makes me laugh and is the love of my life. My dogs Moses and Pepper give me cuddles and kisses… true unconditional love!

3. Praising God with singing, dancing, writing poetry, coloring books, etc. Along with this I love to hunt rocks and my goal is to start tumbling them and making art.

Young adults or adults. I worked at the U of I and one of my favorite tasks was teaching a small group of students how to do the projects they were working on.

I feel led to the healing ministry. Several years ago.. nine I believe, God spoke to me and told me I would have a Mother Teresa ministry, but I don’t know that much about Mother Teresa and God hasn’t yet revealed anything further to me regarding this. Interested in how to fulfill this promise.

Homelessness
Divorce
Disabilities

[A]bilities

I am currently unemployed, but I’ve been in office-type work for over 30 years.

I worked at State Farm for 15 years and then worked temp jobs, mostly office work. Also worked at the U of I Foundation for 5 years as an Office Support Specialist.

I can type over 100WPM, and am very fast at data entry as well. I am very familiar and comfortable with all Microsoft Office products and love making PowerPoint presentations.

Microsoft Word

Helping others, encouraging others, empathy, kindness. Faith, hope, and love… and the greatest of these is love. Love spreading the Word that God loves you! 🙂

[P]ersonality

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 Beaver’, 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

Beaver- Organized. Beavers think that there is a right way to do everything and they want to do it exactly that way. Beaver personalities are very creative. They desire to solve everything. Desire to take their time and do it right. Beavers do not like sudden changes. They need reassurance.

Strength: High standards, order, respect
Weakness: Unrealistic expectations of self & others, too perfect.
Limitation: Seeing the optimistic side of things, expressing flexibility

[E]xperience

I was in deep depression partly because I couldn’t conceive children and the fertility drugs were giving me side-effects. I had a co-worker pray for me – the first time anyone had ever prayed for me – and I saw an apparition of Jesus over my shoulder and I felt a sense of great peace. This was the mid-90s and in June 2007 I was baptized and received the gift of tongues.

Christian Faith Center, Bloomington, IL, praise team and janitor duties, 2006-2010.

Finding and reuniting with my birth mother and my birth family. Both my adoptive parents have passed, and I was blessed with now having a loving family close by in Watseka.

I fell in love with my high school sweetheart, Jimmy, my husband. We met when I was a Junior and he was a Sophomore. We were friends through school but then lost track of each other. God brought him back in my life in 2009 and now we’ve been married 8 years and I have a step-son!

My Dad passed away when I was only 20 years old, but he taught me so much. He was disabled from polio years ago but we went fishing together, picked fruit from trees, and taught me how to drive. He always encouraged me to keep drawing faces. I was very interested at the time of drawing faces and facilitated that love of mine with a lot of praise.

I have had many losses in my life. My brother died when I was 9, my father died when I was 20, my grandma and grandpa passed away when I was 21 and 22, and my mom died in 2007. I’ve also had many friends pass away from suicide or cancer. With all these losses, it gives me great empathy for people who are hurting from the loss of a loved one.

I have major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, and bipolar disorder. Also I have physical problems with my lower back. I am extremely compassionate towards others who are going through or have gone through serious deep depression. There is always a light at the end of tunnel and it’s Jesus! 🙂

I was in a major car accident when I was 19. I was pretty much okay except for some hand lacerations and bruises from the seat belt. God’s protection was all around me from birth even though I didn’t know anything about God!

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. Travel to another country to spread the love of God.

4. Create a business where I can bless others. (Online craft store)

5. Write and publish my memoir in order to connect to others.