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

Thank you Jack Giralico 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:

59%

75%

84%

65%

71%

50%

56%

87%

59%

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 enjoy serving. I am called upon as a Christian and as a recovering alcoholic to serve.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
If someone can see in me that you can come from your worst to what God calls upon you to be, then I feel that I have encouraged them. If I can compel them, more’s the better.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
As a disciple of Christ, I am called upon to spread the Word to others, non-believers and those who have strayed, so that they can come into the fold.

[H]eart

1. Giving of my time and talents to exalt the Word brings me great joy.

2. Serving is a shining example of what I feel led to do.

3. I love kids. My wife and I enjoy inviting young children and their parents to our home to go swimming, cook out and enjoy fellowship and His word.

I love children. I also love to work with young and old alcoholics and addicts to show them God’s path to recovery.

Since I spent my life in construction and maintenance, I naturally gravitate to the facilities teams in churches. I also enjoy cooking from time to time. My sharing of my addiction with other addicts and learning from theirs.

Drug abuse/recovery
Alcoholism
Abuse/violence

[A]bilities

I am semi retired, though, I do help my wife with her insurance business. I also enjoy co-facilitating and helping with front of the house at CR. Additionally, I volunteer with the Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve, ESGR as an ombudsman and working with employers to educate them about guardsman and reservists rights.

I am trained as a millwright and have worked in maintenance (facilities and structures) for river operations, automobile manufacturing and locks and dams with the Army Corps of Engineers. Skilled at metal fabrication, welding, operation of oxygen/acetylene torches, shop tools and equipment. Expert workboat operator. Blue collar all the way. Retired air force reserves working in combat communications assets (equipment and personnel) for forward deployability. I worked as an operator, supervisor and manager. Additionally, worked as air force liaison to Civil Air Patrol, training, assisting, inspecting and providing oversight of air force funded programs and assets.

Strong organizational skills. Computer savvy. Skilled at writing (English minor in college). Oral skills – public speaking.

Various communications disciplines; operations management of maintenance equipment; point lessons in recovery based programs; leader and facilitator in small groups in recovery and christian based veterans programs.

I am an alcoholic so I think , compassion.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Team

Variety

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

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 first came to Christ as a youth, 13 years old. Baptized at 14. Strayed for many years. Started improving my walk with God 8 years ago. Began my recovery from alcoholism 5 years ago . Completed 12 steps AA 4 years ago. Walk to Emmaus 4 years ago. Started working with Point Man Ministries 4 years ago. Entered CR at Grace Church 2 years ago. Worked walk 95 at Walk to Emmaus.

Trustees – Mount Washington UMC, KY. 1995-1998

Point Man Ministries, Crossroads Christian Church, Newburgh, IN. 2013-15. Started Point Man Ministries outpost at Newburgh UMC, IN 2014-15.

Co-facilitator Mens Chemical Dependency CR, Grace 2017-18.
Cafe Ministry, Grace Church 2016-18.
Volunteer at Facilities Team, Grace Church. 2016-18

Marrying Cheri in 1980/AA 2013

Walk to Emmaus 2014

Celebrate Recovery 2016

43 years of alcoholism

My fathers death in 1988

Almost losing my family 1990

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. Justin’s Place is such an amazing recovery ministry. I would love to have the resources to spread it across the state and country.

4. Veterans who have returned with from the recent wars with TBI and PTSD are central to my volunteering at Point Man Ministries. I would like to bring an outpost to Grace Church.

5. I’ve learned, through working with Civil Air Patrol cadets and assisting my wife with youth programs at various churches over the years that many teens have no sense of direction or belonging. I would like to continue this kind of work.