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

Thank you Jeff Salisbury 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:

100%

56%

53%

84%

53%

43%

62%

71%

75%

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, both past & present, been given & faithfully executed administrative & leadership roles inside & outside my local congregation.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
God has blessed us with above average & uninterrupted income for 35+ years. We live modestly & below our means allowing us to tithe to our church & give generously to individuals & charitable organizations.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
While I’m not presently teaching, I have enjoyed leading both adult & men’s Sunday School classes & small groups in discipleship.

[H]eart

1. Caring & providing for my family

2. Seeing people growing in Christ & equipping them to serve God & minister to others

3. Applying my gifts, abilities, & experience to impact others for good in their faith, careers, & personal life

Adults of all ages, generally but not limited to men. Now that my family is nearly grown, I find myself missing the opportunity to mentor boys & young men. Would enjoy finding a ministry opportunity with my wife.

Equipping people to find ministry opportunities & serve wherever they are.
Helping to resource & steward the time, talent, & treasure entrusted to us.
Understanding the needs around us & adapting ministry to meet them.

Marriage/family issues
Financial stewardship
Educational

[A]bilities

Sales & Marketing

Engineering
Purchasing
HVACR/Electrical
Farming

See Gifts

SHAPE/Discipleship
Financial Stewardship
Bible, Book, & Topical

Ability to organize & lead. Task oriented, but with people skills.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

50-50 Routine/Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Beaver’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Lion’, and here are the descriptions of your Personalities, and how they can be used for God

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

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

[E]xperience

I was raised in a good, hard working family, but not church going or confessing Christ personally. After college & early in my working years during a time of uncertainty in my life, a “coincidental” meeting with friends of my parents led to a blind date with a Nursing school classmate of the wife. After a uneven start to the relationship, through the testimony & prayers of this young woman & her church, I had found the direction I was searching for in both a personal faith in Christ & the helpmate that God had prepared for me.

First Church of God, Greenville, MI 1983-1998
Chair: Board of Trustees, Church Council, Christian Education, Pulpit Committee, Capital Fundraising.
Teacher: Adult Sunday School, Small Groups, Men’s Group, Royal Rangers (boys), Youth helper

New Horizons Church of God, Jackson, MI 2006-2013
Leadership: Elder, Deacon, Financial Committee
Teacher: Adult Sunday School

Church of God in Michigan
Division of Church Extension: 1995-2001, Secretary 1996-2001
Board of Directors: Secretary 2013-Present

Raised on a farm by parents who modeled hard work, resiliency, & child raising

God provided a wife perfectly matched to me & a great mother to our children

Belonging to a church fellowship that developed me from a new Christian to an active, effective leader & provided relationships who remain our closest friends

Losing an unborn child after 12 years of infertility

Relocating from a church & community we loved to a location we didn’t know with no support group

Being an adoptive parent of a child who provided many challenges during her teen years & especially as an adult

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. Raising our children to adulthood as Christ followers able to provide for themselves, serving God, family, & others

4. Transition from secular work to opportunities to impact others for Christ & for good

5. Spend more time with my wife & family while we have time, health, & resources to do so