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

Thank you Heather Morris 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:

25%

96%

100%

56%

56%

75%

43%

25%

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:
God often gives me messages,scripture, intuition,insight and instructions on how to help someone during their spiritual battle and to help them believe in God,trust in God and turn to and return to Him to have victory,peace and salvation.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I absolutely love to share my own trials and tribulations as well as my spiritual gifts and all of my blessings, big and small. I am compelled and passionate about sharing my journey and personal relationship with Christ in order to restore someone’s faith,help prepare them for times of intense attack and protect them as much as I possibly can by being a a vessel and confirmation of the Lord. I love and believe and trust in my Father absolutely and my faith NEVER waivers. I long to help lead others, especially my loved ones back to the safety of His arms. I immensely enjoy sharing scripture that applies in every situation.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I enjoy and have a strong need to study and learn through His blessing of wisdom and understanding and share it with others boldly,without shame or fear. I long for and am so grateful for the gifts of insight and intuition, for it is saving my life and helping protect those I love in this constant spiritual battle that is our life,our tests of faith and our journey HOME.

[H]eart

1. Spend time with my family and loved ones. Life on Earth is so short and tomorrow is not promised so I cherish every second.

2. Spending time with my Father,reading and studying His word for strength,comfort, insight and understanding.

3. Spending time praying and singing in the spirit,giving the Lord all praise and worship, focusing on ONLY HIM. I relishvin the Holy Spirit as it washes over me; restoring me, giving me peace and calmness unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. It’s amazing the love and confirmation He showers over me, the love I feel for Him in these moments brings me to tears and to my knees. Right now He is healing me and setting me free from so many chains of bondage that have enslaved me my whole life. This time with Him is sacred and crucial in this, the most pivotal moment of my life. My gratitude and sheer awe overwhelm me.

I guess I love to work with my family and loved ones the most because their spiritual growth and development is so important to me. My children are in their twenty’s and my granddaughter is 5 years old. I feel responsible for teaching them all I’ve learned and about nurturing their personal relationship with Christ. I simply enjoy sharing my experience when it’s on my heart to do so;in the hopes of rekindling someone’s faith and assuring them that God is right by their side and His love for them is unconditional and never wavers. It makes my heart ache with compassion to see people I care about in pain and in crisis. I spend so much time with friends that are struggling with homelessness, as I did for nearly 4 years. It’s my duty to reach out and share God’s word and my own story and all that God has done for me.

Easy. Spirit filled churches with warm, accepting fellowship with amazing children’s ministries and fun, exciting,casual Bible Studies that inspire me to learn more. And more.

Homelessness
Drug abuse/recovery
Marriage/family issues
Poverty/hunger

[A]bilities

I am currently disabled, unfortunately.

Human Resources Management, Customer Service, Retail Positions,Stay-at-home-mom,etc. Plus countless hours of volunteering.

Writing, Love for children, animals and volunteering in those areas. I have great organizational and time management skills. I’m a proud mother and grandmother and am blessed with several spiritual gifts that are my saving grace and humble me with gratitude and love.

New hire orientation, computer programs,literacy in every child, Girl Scout meetings, baseball coaching, conducting PTA meetings as Vice President, book clubs and Bible Studies.

Empathy and compassion for those who are struggling with addiction, poverty, homelessness and people,in turmoil and in pain, emotional and physical.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

50-50 Routine/Variety

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

It’s beautifully simple. I was a believer at conception. Praise God.

I have only volunteered sporadically in children’s ministries in a few churches I attended in Arizona. No permanent position…YET.

Becoming a mother.

Becoming a grandmother.

Being blessed with spiritual gifts and an amazingly close relationship with Christ.

Childhood abuse, neglect,poverty, abandonment,severe trauma with sexual assaults and constant violence in the home with zero stability or any parents really present to take care of me.

My struggle with addictions and mental and physical health issues.

Abandoned by husband of 27 years for being too I’ll for too long which landed me in ruin; homelessness, poverty,active addictions,more violence and sexual assaults and devastating,crippling mental/physical health problems.

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. For God to heal and restore my family..with all of us together in church,United in Christ and healthy, happy and born again!

4. Giving back to the homeless community and to the local churches and shelters and food banks that sustained me for 3 1/2 years on the streets.

5. Starting a new no-cost or low-cost animal hospital and shelter for people who are wonderful pet owners but don’t have the means to pay for emergency and preventative care which is absolutely heartbreaking. My children share this dream with me.