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

Thank you Julie Jaran 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):

71%

56%

53%

53%

31%

43%

40%

56%

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 am a fairly organized person and a problem solver with a bunch of flexibility thrown in.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I was born this way. I have great joy when I watch a person master a skill that they have been struggling with.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love the Lord and am so very grateful for all He has done for me. I like to tell people of those things.

[H]eart

1. I love discussing big ideas with young people. I love problem solving with them and then putting those ideas into action.

2. I love building relationships.

3. I love to provide life skills to anyone who will listen. Parents who want to do the best for their children really make me happy, when I can help them to understand the growth and development of their children and help them see their child in a new way. Then to help them brainstorm ways of interacting with their children to build a better relationship with them.

Parents who are open to gaining an understanding of their children, young people who want to learn how to work with children, children just in general but maybe helping them to understand their place in their world dealing with behavior and learning

young people and all the challenges that they face and how to be strong in the Lord

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Parenting
Educational

[A]bilities

Teaching/directing/mentoring

mostly teaching but in various content and ages
child development
marriage and family
nutrition and culinary arts
clothing design
interior design
family financial management , basics
younger ages I can teach literacy skills, science, history, geography
I have worked in retail (not a fan) and as a waitress, cook and front desk reservation person ( not really relevent to church stuff )

problem solver, flexibility, big picture person, organizational skills

see job experience above

flexibility and problem solving

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

Leader

Team

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 raised as catholic and went to my best friends baptist church camp and went forward in an alter call. The young people that I meet there showed me a whole new way to know Jesus. I asked my parents if we could convert but they said no. After my mom died I got really mad at God, because my mom shouldn’t have died so young. In His grace and mercy He took me through who He is and who I am to Him. He gave me His promises and I finally started to get an idea of the significance of what I did as 12 year old when I was saved. It has been an amazing journey ever since. Praise the Lord for His unmerited Grace!!!!!

Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Cicero, N.Y. 1972-1980, babysitting; 1980-1982, CCD teacher, 1st and 2nd grades
Abiding Peace Lutheran Church, Budd Lake, N.J. guessing at the years 1997-2002, Evangelism Chair, Christian Education Chair,served on the board during these years, taught VBS two summers, 1 week each, 3 hours/day, served on pastor search committee

Grace Bible Chapel, Chester, N.J. 2002- present, served as deaconess twice, served on board, served on pastor search committee, 1 year as head camp councilor at Day Camp,3 years taught lessons at Day Camp to the older campers, 3 years as preschool Day Camper head teacher, have volunteered for coffee fellowship 2 years, organize and direct LightHouse youth ministry, provide meals for CR every third week, served on music director search committee, serving on associate pastor search committee

We decided to pull our son out of the public school after 7th grade and home school him. Best decision ever! We met people and learned about things that would never have happened without homeschooling. It changed me as a person and as a mom and made me a better teacher when I went back to the public school setting.

My parents built a cabin in the Adirondacks and we spent a lot of time there while I was a child. This gave me a lot of alone time in the great outdoors. I came to really appreciate time spent in nature contemplating God’s creation and learning to listen to quietness. I really came to love this time. I think that the time spent then created a comfortableness with myself that I didn’t need to do what everyone else was doing so I have always been someone who does what is right for me and peer pressure was never really as big an issue for me. That has been a real blessing in my life and kept me out of trouble. I think that time made me strong in a quiet way. You can’t make me do something that I don’t want to do. especially if it is something negative.

After raising my kids, I returned to teaching. I taught child development in a high school to the teenagers and together we ran a preschool for 2 and a half to 6 year olds. I have always believed in the one room school house philosophy and I was able to implement that idea and feel in this program.It was a lot to manage and organize everything that needed to be done but it was an amazingly fulfilling and enriching experience for me. I had to do a lot or research and learning in order to make the program the best it could be and I think I succeeded. I feel good about the influence that I had on the high school students, preschool children and their parents.

When my mother died way too young from a cancer that was curable I learned the importance of being your own advocate with the medical professionals. This was a good preparation for when my daughter developed cancer. I was able to be on top of her issues due to what I had learned going through the cancer with my mother and I believe that we had a better result than we would have if I hadn’t learned so much through the experience with my mom. I try to help others with cancer as I can, prayer is the best weapon I have as well as being an ear to listen.

When I was 18 and in college, I was raped. After working through all the issues associated with this, I decided to form an approach to raising my kids that would do as much as was possible to help them stay out of situations that could result in negative situations for them. I focused on being proactive and not making them fearful. God’s grace was evident all through this. This is such a private thing that it has been rare for me to find other survivors but when I do I support them as best I can.

I have had a blessed life and at the time of this writing I can’t think of another negative experience.

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. run parenting classes based on God’s handbook for parenting

4. I would love to go on a missions trip, anywhere

5. take in kids and care for them