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

Thank you Karen Disney 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):

75%

37%

59%

87%

56%

31%

12%

56%

56%

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:
God has blessed us financially and I enjoy being able to meet immediate needs

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I work in system implementation and process improvement in my job. Organizing people and work is my ‘thing’.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I’m naturally a cheerful, ‘look on the bright side’ person. I’m also very extroverted and enjoy meeting people.

[H]eart

1. Time with family including my special needs sister

2. Traveling and meeting new people

3. Animal rescue including fostering dogs

Adults of any age, special needs of any age

Anything project or organizational need, working with people from other countries or backgrounds (in my job, I work with people from all over the world and love that)

Educational
At-risk children
Policy/politics

[A]bilities

Human Resources Director – focus on systems

N/A

N/A

N/A, have delivered systems/ process training at work

Empathy/ caring

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Team

50-50 Routine/Variety

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

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

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

I was raised in church and got baptized at 6. At 15 while a counselor at a Christian camp for persons with special needs, I realized that others there seemed to have something I didn’t. Maybe it was just a deeper walk with God, but this resulted in a turning point in my life of truly seeking God and desiring to walk with him daily.

Since graduating college and getting married, I have not been actively serving at a church. We’ve joined churches and attended, sometimes more regularly, sometimes less. In high school I was involved in special needs camp, choir, bell choir, puppet ministry, domestic mission trips. In college I was active in a campus ministry and did limited campus evangelism.

My family– my parents raised me in church and modeled being active and participating in your local church.

Getting married– I’m blessed with a very happy marriage. My husband helps me know myself better and has shown me I can do so many things I didn’t think I could do.

My work– God has used my work in the corporate world to grow and shape me and he’s brought so many people into my life who have influenced me in a positive way.

Difficult family relationships – my relationship with my dad was difficult growing up, to say the least.

Dealing with depression- in college I was on some medication that led to debilitating depression and caused me to lose friendships and fail several classes. I will always understand now why someone can’t just ‘get over’ depression.

Not walking with the Lord- after college I went through a season of not following God. I was still a believer but was not living right.

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. International mission trip

4. Teach English as a second language

5. Find a way to tie my love for animals to a ministry that helps them and their families