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

Thank you Joani Hughes 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):

37%

56%

65%

46%

75%

28%

25%

56%

50%

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:
Situations which involve mercy showing feel like “my sweet spot”. It seems to come more naturally to me, requiring much less effort than administration.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have been encouraged in my life by a few key people at several occasions in my life and I have never forgotten the difference it made to me. I have walked through some dark situations and I can relate to people who are experiencing despair and fear.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
My approach to evangelism is relationship based. I share my faith in God through conversation more than directly presenting the Gospel. It is organic evangelism.

[H]eart

1. I am a spiritual director and I love to sit one on one with people and listen for God’s activity and voice together.

2. I love to be with my grandchildren!! As a retired fourth grade teacher, I love to be with children in lots of situations.

3. I love to be outside and recognizing God in Creation!!

I mostly work with women who are in some type of transition. I don’t prefer any particular age. I am very open to working with/alongside men as well.

discipleship groups, social justice ministries, contemplative prayer groups

Drug abuse/recovery
Marriage/family issues
Poverty/hunger
Educational
At-risk children

[A]bilities

Retired teacher
Spiritual Director

Listening carefully and compassionately

Spiritual practices, contemplative living,

my ability to be a friend who listens and is loyal

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

50-50 Follower/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 raised in a Christian home and was a church member primarily until I was a young adult and rediscovered my faith for myself. I have found that spending time with God in solitude and silence as well as being outwardly focused in ministry is essential to growing and transforming. I am looking for a faith that is more about living a changed and transformed life that leads me into a hurting world than a faith that is focused on “right beliefs above all else.”

I am Baptist and have been a member of chuches in several states. I have served as a Sunday school teacher, a Deacon, worked on many different missions committees, directed on going missions projects (hunger, prison, etc)

I was abused by a Christian youth leader in high school. After college, I finally shared my experience with an older Christian woman who lovingly shepherded me into healing and hope. In many ways, she kept me from losing my faith@@

Being a small group leader of women in transition has taken me from being a nervous and unsure leader to a place of confidence in encouraging women and listening with them to God’s voice.

I participated in a two year program called the Transforming Center which was a deep dive into spiritual rhythms and disciplines. My faith is at a much deeper place now and I feel I have tools to use to keep my faith active and alive.

I experienced significant shame and rejection when I exposed the abuse mentioned above. The church leaders initially did not believe me and the lack of support was devastating to me. While eventually the truth became clear, I lost faith and trust in Christian leaders for quite a while. I very much feel drawn to sit with women who have suffered abuse and just listen and believe compassionately.

We have a child with a chronic illness and while that was very hard, it has opened doors of understanding with other parents.

Dealing with divisions among Christians both in church and in society is discouraging to me. It also makes me want to learn how to encourage conversations which are difficult.

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. Being in relationship with people who feel lonely or left out

4. Leading small groups in discipleship/ministry.

5. volunteering in a medical setting as a volunteer, post Covid!!