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

Thank you Julie Hansen 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:

68%

87%

75%

46%

53%

78%

68%

31%

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 love sharing Christ with others. I am not ashamed of the Gospel but so thankful that He made me His child. I love to share my testimony.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
People have shared with me that I have this gift and I have seen it action somewhat.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love to encourage and exhort people in their faith to live for the glory of God and give Him their all for He alone is worth it!

[H]eart

1. Sharing Jesus. Speaking in front of groups. I work at a Christian Retreat so I mostly share with Christians but I love bumping into non-Christians. In fact I used to see it as difficult to share with people who already have the Good News when there are those dying w/o knowledge.

2. I love praying with people one on one and sending messages of encouragement to keep going strong in the faith.

3. My family is the best. I love my husband and our 6 children.

I love babies and adults. All ages are good though. Occasionally we go to nursing homes. We have our 93 mother-in-law living with us. Mostly I like to work with people that want to grow in their faith-no matter the age.

The Gospel and discipling are the most important…equipping the Body to do the work of ministry…It’s hard to see deception and watered down teaching in the church…and undisciplined sin going rampant w/o correction.

Marriage/family issues
Spiritual laziness

[A]bilities

Co-Directing a Christian Retreat and starting our first year of an 8 month Discipleship Bible School with 2 students.

Pretty much been doing this since I got married 29 years ago.

I love to speak…I have the gift of faith. I have some leadership and oraginzational skills…though I do not like to organize but especially not detail work.

Genesis, 1& 2 Samuel, Philippians and many inspirational/motivational talks…devotionals.

My love for Jesus and His people

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

Solo

Variety

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 wasn’t raised a Christian but we started going to church when I was 15. I came from an abusive home and was looking for love in all the wrong places. Even though I felt it was wrong I got into immoral relationships. I got pregnant in my senior year of High School and gave my son up for adoption. This brought me to understand all that I had been learning in church but up to that point had not made sense of or seen how God loved me and was intimately interested in my life. In God’s providence He sent a couple of people in my life during that time which were very instrumental and loving me in the faith as I began to grow.

Silverton Oregon. My husband pastored a little community church for 6.5 years I taught Sunday School, VBS, and Bible Release. We have also worked all our married life at a Christian Retreat.

Sharing Christ with our guests over these many years…speaking at our summer camps and meeting one on one. They are my people.

My husbands father was a Pastor for 25 years and then started our retreat, I was very impacted by him (and his wife). His love for Jesus and people were an inspiration.

Reading amazing biographies of missionaries and people who were sold out for Christ

Being abused

Being hurt by fellow Christians that were more concerned with looking good…spiritual pride…false humility

Having a couple of my children struggle in their faith has been very difficult

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. Sharing Jesus through speaking

4. Write a book

5. Be more hospitable & get rid of ALL my other jobs