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

Thank you Jami Malone 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:

84%

87%

100%

84%

78%

90%

84%

93%

93%

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:
Everybody has something to offer, they just need to have their eyes opened to their placement/contribution/wealth(spiritual) they offer others. There is something good in everyone. There is something that they can do that others need. I believe in bringing people up. Up to their potential, utilizing the gifts they have been given, and showing that they are someone special…to God, fellow believers, and should be to themselves. I like to watch people open up and discover who they are…in Christ. I like to watch all the bad/negative words fall off of them as they see who they really are and what God has to say about them. They aren’t worthless, they have a ton of worth.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
This is my love language…Acts of Service. Many hands make light work. I think about what I would want/how I would feel and I try to do that for them (if I’m able). I think everyone should pitch in. It makes me feel more free to help others. I guess that is where the saying fits me…it’s better to give than to receive.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I teach…every day. It’s in me. If there’s a better way or way to simplify things, I’m wanting to show it to others. I used to teach the military and I typically coach. I like to make things easy for people to understand. I like to see people learn and actually get something out of what they are there for. I’m constantly teaching my kids. It’s harder to show and wait then it is to actually do it for them, but it’s rewarding to see them ‘get it’. I like taking something that seems difficult and putting it on their terms/level. When I coached little ones, I used Disney movies and Spider-Man to get them to understand. They weren’t dribbling balls, they were slapping them. So, I had to figure out how to get 5/6 year olds to understand tips of fingers. I asked them how Spider-Man crawled a wall and got down on the ground to show them..pads/tips of fingers…they got it after that. I’m more concerned with the message/teaching going through/being received than I am about the delivery. I tend to use a lot of visuals. My favorite part of teaching though is having others teach what I’ve taught. Then, I really know they have gotten it and that they are teaching others! The one year I coached I ended up at the end splitting the team in two and placing a leader from among themselves to coach/lead. It was absolutely beautiful. They didn’t want to do it but they were so good at it. They were encouraging and utilizing everyone where their strengths were and even changing people up. Teaching to me is training…I’m training leaders. If I’ve done my job right, at the end, someone else should be able to take my place and everything should run smoothly.

[H]eart

1. Praying. I don’t want to seem super spiritual but this is definitely the top. I love to pray for others…right there/right then. I don’t like feeling I missed it/I could do better. I like teaching about praying, I like it all. I spent most of my life not understanding prayer or how to pray, that now I want to do it all the time. I was always nervous to pray in front of others, now I want to show others how easy it is. I’ve been on this journey and now I want to help others see how easy things can be just by praying, sharing testimonies and believing. I wish someone had shown me. It brings me much joy to pray with others and them to see there is no set way.

2. I love to coach. This could come from playing sports year round, but I still love to be around sports. Coaching is the next best thing to playing.

3. I like to just relax, spend time with my family. Just chill. Watch a Disney movie/ the show scorpion. It’s kind of our family time and not a forced family time.

I like to work with those that no one wants. Sometimes that’s little ones. Sometimes that’s the elderly. Sometimes that’s the ones that people call mental. I like to be wherever there is a need.

I’ve wanted to experience prison ministry. I keep feeling pulled towards it but have never been a part of one.

I was in a a scripture meditation group last year and LOVED it! We had books of the Bible with many different versions and we went through those by verse. So, Ephesians 1:1 would be 9 different versions and we would go in order and read them. It brought a whole new understanding and amazing results. I learned so much that I would love to be a part of one here.

Marriage/family issues
Divorce

[A]bilities

I homeschool my children.

I have an electronics background that I used to do in the military. I used to teach a satellelite communications system for the military as a contractor. I used to lead an all volunteer food co-op. I used to do all restaurant tasks/jobs as my parents owned one.

IT/tech. It’s not my passion, so I don’t typically do it though.

Different subjects. Whatever was needed at the time. I would research what I was going to speak on. I’ve also had to give sermon’s.

To others? I’m able to quickly asses a situation and determine strengths/weaknesses and provide what is needed. I look for understanding. I’m a team player, and I try always to bring out the best in people.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Variety

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

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 raised Catholic, saved by Baptists and went to a Pentacostal school. I chose Christ for myself out in a field during a field trading for the military. I had sat under the Word long enough to decide it was time and this is what I wanted. My testimony of my walk is something much more in depth. Still continuing and greatly amazing of what He is doing in and through me.

Youth ministry and prayer groups

Volunteering at functions/ VBS

The Baptist missionaries that had a soldier’s serviceman’s center and were available to me everyday for my questions. Who loved me and waited for me to get it. Who accepted everyone and didn’t try to convert any of us. Who provides a home for those of us that needed it, and scripture every night.

My children. They constantly challenge me and when I really listen, they teach me more about Christ and His love than anyone else has. They’ve taught me how to see through their eyes and to see things more simple.

A school I went to. They were dedicated to being on ground and not online so you could actually catch whatever the Holy Spirit wanted you to catch. I’m grateful to them for making themselves available for us to have a place to sit under the Word and get whatever He had for us. They weren’t concerned about us getting grades/dates, etc. they were concerned with us getting what He had for us. I have many notebooks not from what they said, but from what I got. I learned that God can use anyone as long as they are a yielded vessel and I have to listen to what He’s telling me. I learned how to trust I hear from Him and to come expecting. It’s been a life changer.

Divorce to someone who chose to leave the ministry and focus instead on drugs.

Church hurt. Realizing this walk is not about the 4 walls but instead about my own personal walk. That man will eventually fail us but Jesus never does. Realizing I needed to turn to God with my problems as He’s the only one with the answer.

Being a single mom for 8 years. Choosing it and seeing things differently.

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. Feeding people. Having a place to go/helping start a place where people know they can come at any hour to be fed…spiritually, emotionally and physically.

4. Go into the worst parts of an area…the ones nobody wants to touch and show them love/share the Word.

5. Missionary to a place that has mostly nothing. Learning to build/outfit an entire area literally from the ground up. Plumbing/electrical/water/farming. My uncle was a pinoneer for the cattle industry…pioneering for God. No road blocks, no barriers, would mean bigger than I can imagine.