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

Thank you Karina Cruz 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):

43%

50%

59%

62%

56%

40%

40%

78%

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 feel joy when i am serving, in the church or outside the church.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
If I see anyone in need, I always try to help them, in any way I could.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I enjoy to share with others The Word of God. It is something special for me, to see the knowledge of God become life in others.

[H]eart

1. Listen to worship music and being alone with God

2. When i can be a helper in a situation or for anyone who is in need.

3. When i can serve in any way, inside or outside the church.

Women, kids and teenagers.

Women’s Ministry, Kids Ministry: Cleaning, Supporting tasks.

Drug abuse/recovery
Abuse/violence
At-risk children
Divorce

[A]bilities

Multi-task

General Manager of a broker insurance company, for almost 30 years
Cleaning Services

– Present ideas and information clearly and concisely
– Customer service
– Functionally bilingual
– Use a variety of software programs
– Operate computers and other basic office equipments
– Design and maintain filling and control systems
– Adapt to the need and changes of the moment
– Establish priorities and meet deadlines
– Clarify the nature of a problem, evaluate alternatives

Kids Church classes, in Dominican Republic

Merciful and careness

[P]ersonality

Reserved

Low Risk

Peace Maker

Project Driven

Follower

Team

50-50 Routine/Variety

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

Lion- This personality likes to lead. The lion is good at making decisions and is very goal-oriented. They enjoy challenges, difficult assignments, and opportunity for advancement. Because lions are thinking of the goal, they can step on people to reach it. Lions can be very aggressive and competitive. Lions must learn not to be too bossy or to take charge in other’s affairs.

Strength: Goal-oriented, strong, direct
Weakness: Argumentative, too dictatorial
Limitation: Doesn’t understand that directness can hurt others, hard time expressing grace

[E]xperience

I became a Christian when i was 9 years old, in a Small Group at my house. My parents opened the doors to receive the word of God, and the first day, i received Jesus Christ as my Savior. I was a child needing to be loved, because i felt rejected, since that moment, I began to walk with Jesus Christ.

Kids Church, Iglesia Bautista Central, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 1995-2005 (Teacher)

Kids Church, Iglesia INT Central, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 2015-2019
(Teacher)

My Grandmother, (father’s mother) She always taught me to give, no looking at people, doing for love. She loved to give to those in need, and to serve her community. She was a lovely lady, and that was an example of love for me.

My mother is a woman, like Proverbs 31. I learned so many things from her. She is a fighter, a good woman, with a blessed heart. She has fought for her marriage, she has kept her family together, she is an incredible example for me, of God strength, love and forgiveness. My mother engraved this words in my heart: Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Our high school director (supervisor), was a christian woman. Before starting each day, in our school, we red the Bible, and pray. That was priceless, she took every morning of our high school days to engraved the word of God in our hearts, and minds, and I can tell you, that word produced fruits in all of us. I kept in God ways, thanks to Mrs Matos. A tiny woman, with a big heart to teach and to love.

My father was a rough man, very aggressive and violent. I grew up feeling unforgiveness for him, and I was affected for his anger and roughness. This anger situation i took it to my new home, when i got married, and unconsciously i began to practice the same thing with my children. It took a while to understand that I was completely wrong. Thanks God, I heard God voice and made changes in my life, beginning to forgive my father, and myself, and ask forgiveness to my children. Thanks God for his compassion and love, I was rescued by Him, and I could repent for my sin, and change through the Holy Spirit for the good of my children.

My father was an alcoholic, and this problem almost destroyed our family. But I did not know, the things he had to go through when he was a kid and a young boy. We are in our home, the result of what we have lived in our parents house, and i did not know that about my father. So I understood all of that when I stop to hate my father, and I forgive him, by the love of God. Only God can heal the soul, and we look for other things to heal us, and one of that things, is alcohol. Thanks God, my father became a christian, and He is free indeed.

I went to a divorce. That event of my life broke me apart. I went to depression, using medicine for anxiety. It was a hard time for me, because I have two boys (they are two blessed grown men actually), and I was dealing with so many things in my life. I had to support my house, take care of my boys, and was emotionally, spiritually and physically ill. I went to a hard time, but my Father kept me under His Wings, He approached me and I recognized I need to be healed in every way of my life. It was a wonderful moment for my boys, and for me, to see the fidelity of our Lord, we came through this event thanks to the blood of Jesus, the comfort of the Holy Spirit, and the love of our Father.

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. Serve in the church

4. Doing social work in my community

5. Studying with my husband in a discipleship school