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

Thank you Sandra Summar 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:

71%

53%

59%

68%

62%

40%

43%

78%

62%

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 always loved serving others & being served. Service is also my love language.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Administration comes very easy for me. I understand financials & the business well.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I give cheerfully, but sometimes feel guilty I do not have more financially to give. I find my self giving more of my time to make up for what I am unable to give financially.

[H]eart

1. Vacation Bible School is truly a joy & love of mine. I look forward to it each year & start on the next year as soon as I am finished with the current one.

2. Children bring me much joy! My own children & grandchildren as well as all other children. I very much enjoy sharing Christ with Children in my life both young & grown.

3. Family & Friends. They are all the same in one. My personal family, extended family, friends & church family from Bement as well as my husband’s churches he serves. I love being in community with them all.

Children!

The decline in numbers at church concerns me, I am very excited to see new growth through our new leadership in Pastor James. Praying he can teach us how.

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Financial stewardship

[A]bilities

I am a TIG welder, work in a factory in Fisher IL

Accounting in factory office, in my husbands Auto repair business, & in my own in home day care. I ran my own day care in my home.

I connect well with children. I feel I lead well as Administrative Board Chair at the church.

I have taught Sunday school classes for children. I struggle being up in front of large groups of adults.

Kindness to everyone

[P]ersonality

Reserved

Low Risk

Peace Maker

Project Driven

Leader

Team

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

I was born to a UM Pastor, Grew up in the church my whole life. I was very influenced by my Grandmother. I vividly remember in 6th grade giving my life to Christ at Awana Bible Club that I attended every Wednesday night.

Camp Coordinator/Youth Director BUMC 5 years

PPRC Chair BUMC 3 years

Administrative Board Chair BUMC 4 1/2 years
Annual Conference laity delegate 11 years

Pastor Steve Bramlett & Pastor Mark Smith pulling me out of my comfort zone & into leadership with in the Bement UMC

God using me as a supporter & guidance as he brought my husband from not attending church at all (although he was a believer) to becoming a UMC Pastor himself.

Watching my grown children become parents themselves & knowing I raised them into the people they have become, both good & bad.

My ex-husband became a crack addict during our marriage. He was abusive to me & neglected our children. I stayed with him for 8 years. We lived in poverty.

I was best friends with my mother, She passed away 5 years ago after a 2 year battle with ovarian cancer. 6 months after my mother passed my oldest brother whom I was closest with & confided in passed away from Colon cancer. I still grieve greatly for them

It is very difficult for me, as my children grow & move out of state taking my grandchildren many miles away. I am learning to accept it better all the time.

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. Take a trip to the Holy Lands & walk where Jesus walked

4. Go on a missionary trip to Brazil to meet & help Maria the child I sponsor who lives in great poverty

5. Start a home or foster home for abused or troubled teen girls