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

Thank you Julie Lowery 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):

18%

50%

53%

59%

53%

43%

18%

56%

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:
when I learn something, I enjoy telling someone else about it.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
if I have more than someone else, I know it is Jesus’s way that we share or give away what we have. It is sometimes difficult, but if I remember the reason then I feel good about it.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
helping others is rewarding, as I remember that Jesus served others and that we are all equal in God’s eyes.

[H]eart

1. traveling

2. grandkids

3. learning about the Bible

children – kindergarten/elementary age

women’s in-person gatherings/ministries

Spiritual laziness
Educational
At-risk children

[A]bilities

assistant with payees handling money for folks receiving SSI

call center/customer service/ housecleaning/sales/retail

MS Office, internet search/research/genealogy, making up silly songs, very basic Spanish, intermediate knowledge for cell phone & computer safety/privacy

nothing

communication

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

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

My grandma and gr-gr-aunt took me to church and my grandma bought me my first Bibles. I knew who God was. I chose to be baptized at 14 but had never been to church there & none of my family went there, either! I knew God was someone special but that’s as far as it went. My relations with God ebbed and flowed through the decades, depending on my romantic relationships, circle of friends, and jobs. But since marrying my 2nd husband my relationship with God has grown, because I began really focusing on what God has delivered me through, with reasons I’d never considered before. And I was seeing what God was doing in my life like never before. It’s by His Grace that we were able to move to Maui and move back to Oregon and to get through 2020.

volunteering at Awakening Church – Maui

volunteering at Grace Chapel

1st marriage

depression

abortion

abortion

depression

parent’s divorce

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. traveling, giving talks to schoolkids about depression & self-worth

4. writing books, nonfiction and fiction

5. living on Maui & supporting myself by doing blogs about life there