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

Thank you Barb Gemmell 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 (in alphabetical order):

62%

90%

90%

68%

71%

87%

90%

65%

93%

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 been in Gods Word and involved in church and Christian ministries consistently for over 30 years. I have sat under many godly and gifted preachers/ teachers during these years.
The Lord has given me conviction to dig deep in to the Bible on my own as well, but equally important has shown me how the Holy Spirit uses the Word to change and strengthen me in Christlikeness. I believe God has given me a foundation of Biblical understanding that I am able to present to others, by His help, in a way that is understandable to them.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
My own journey of coming to the Lord was through a valley of drugs, immorality, depression/ suicidal desires, abortion, and so on. I have deep compassion and understanding for spiritually lost and desperate people. God has also given me many opportunities through my Christian journey to engage with a wide variety of unbelievers and learn about their world, what they are experiencing and suffering through. Mixing this with my years of being in Gods Word and knowing what Gods remedies for sin and suffering has given me evangelism ability. Sometimes I feel lazy and don’t want to lay aside my agenda for others, but I believe God is challenging me to grow in that area.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I believe my ability to be able to exhort or encourage someone is based in my answers to the other questions as well; But just through many of life’s struggles, and the experiences God has allowed me to walk through, blessings, deep trials, personal sin, I have seen that God is faithful. His faithfulness to me as his beloved daughter is the message that I can give to these whether they are resisting Him, suffering under a providentially ordained trial, or experiencing a season of joy.

[H]eart

1. I love to care for my family, my husband, my kids, grandkids. I love to show the the love of Christ and bless them in their day to day lives. I love having the opportunity to be a living example of a Christian, with the hopes that it draws them closer to God in deep personal ways as well. I want to leave them with a solid Christian example/ legacy.

2. I love my friendships with various Christian ladies I’ve walked along side of- some for a short time, some for many decades. I love most of all the discipleship aspects of these relationships, the back and forth care and sharing of life’s hardships and joys together. I love praying together with these ladies and waiting to see Gods answers to prayers.

3. I love art. The whole world is art to me – color, shapes, textures, atmospheres. I love studying artists and their journeys thru their art careers.

I most enjoy woman who are young adult age, 18 on up when it comes to discipleship relationships.
I like working with other couples when Jim and I are together.
I have worked with many children over the years in children’s ministries and do enjoy that too- I enjoy working in camp kitchens and serving meals, leading crafts with kids.

I get concerned knowing how to minister to the poor and needy without actually hindering them in learning to care for their own needs. I want to learn more about this, be taught by those who know a lot about these types of things.

I have seen church leaders who lack transparency and the ability to receive counsel and correction ( lack of true humility )from other leaders and members in their local church. This is a church issue that is always on my radar because it seems to be very common unfortunately.

I believe God is calling Jim and into a new and deeper place of laying ourselves down His sake to help build a new and deeply needed church. That scares me and excites me.

Drug abuse/recovery
Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Spiritual laziness

[A]bilities

Home school mom, manager of home life and hospitality 😍

Kitchen service, any hospitality work.
I have helped organize woman’s events, lessons, retreat type events.

Art, Bible study leader, group discussion leader

I’ve been an Art teacher for homeschool co-ops for 30 years.
I have taught woman’s groups bible studies and given lessons over the years.

My most valuable asset would just be the many years of learning and experiencing Christian life God has already faithfully led me through. I have seen a lot and God has shown Himself perfectly in control and faithful.
I guess you could say my faith in Him; which is based all in His faithfulness.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

People Driven

Leader

Team

50-50 Routine/Variety

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

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

My parents were saved when I was in high school, but by then I was already involved in drugs and sexual promiscuity. In college I went deeper into these things until I became aware of my intense lost ness and guilt. A campus ministry shared the gospel with me at the very end of college, last semester and I was saved.

Reformed Baptist Church – Downingtown, Pa.
– was there about 20 years. Jim was a bi- vocational pastor, so I did a lot of supportive types of ministry such as counseling as a couple and a lot of hospitality.

Covenant Fellowship Church- Glen Mills Pa.
– was there about 2 years. We were involved in youth group ministry activities and children’s ministry.

Brandywine Grace Church- Downingtown Pa.
– have been there almost 10 years.
– Jim and headed up Children’s Ministry for about 5 years.
– have been very active in the youth group, serving in many many ways-
– we lead a community group in our home, which included married couples and single adults.
– participated in a ladies prayer group for 10 years.
– helped co-lead an informal women’s group of about 25 women doing bimonthly bible studies, parenting studies, marriage studies, mentoring studies.
– also served at Chester County Women’s services helping crisis, often unwed pregnant women through their pregnancies. Worked here off and on over several years.

Witnessing God work in my loved ones, especially my kids as they have become grown adults.

Developing deep friendships with sisters in Christ who are committed to seeing me grow.

Participating in different types of churches with different types of believers/ cultures. Seeing how diverse true believers are.

Being part of a more narrow legalistic church that put unnecessary restrictions on believers and made the gospel come with unnecessary stumbling blocks.

Having a daughter go off and live a very non- Christian life completely against the way we raised her, get pregnant outside of marriage, move back home with her son. This was one of the hardest seasons in my life but has given me a ton of compassion for parents with wayward children and compassion for the prodigal.

Going through various church related troubles, disunity in a church body, misunderstandings in a church body, sometimes between a leader and member that doesn’t get resolved and seeing the pain and destruction of that has been very painful. I want to be a peacemaker in the church I’m in and help others through strife when it comes up.

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. Be a significant help in seeing the broken community of Coatesville be brought to a place of healthiness in their relationships with Christ.

4. I would love to co-lead a marriage counseling center

5. I would love to be part of a home for caring for unwed pregnant women helping them to find Christ in their crisis.