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

Thank you Katie 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):

6%

40%

34%

62%

43%

28%

15%

84%

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:
I feel most comfortable being given tasks to do and accomplishing those tasks. I like feeling helpful.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have a strong desire to give to the hungry… especially mothers and children.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I do enjoying sharing what God has taught me or anything that I am currently learning about and am excited about – education or nutrition related.

[H]eart

1. Taking care of children, loving children.

2. Exercise

3. Reading and learning about personal health and growth.

I love to work with babies and young children. I like working with like minded women who care about children and what is best for them.

I get most excited about church ministries that meet the needs of the needy… food, clothing, school supplies for children, etc.

Parenting
Poverty/hunger
Health/fitness

[A]bilities

Teacher’s Aide

Elementary teacher. Day care employee. Homemaker.

Nurturing. Supporting. Encouraging. Listening.

Being supportive.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

Low Risk

Peace Maker

Project Driven

Follower

Routine

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

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

[E]xperience

I grew up going to church and hearing about Jesus. From my earliest memory, I have loved Jesus and wanted to be as close to Him as possible. I became a Christian very young and at each stage of my life my relationship with Christ has deepened and taken over more and more of my life.

I volunteered with high schoolers for two years.

I scheduled groups of people to cook weekly dinners for the homeless in our community.

I have gone on mission trips to India and Nepal and Scotland to work with children.

Marrying my husband. When I was single in my 20s I thought I would be a missionary. My husband is in the military and I think leaving my family and joining him in whatever God calls him to do has taught me a lot about trusting God with each day, with each opportunity. We don’t know what tomorrow with bring.

Having children. Being a mother is all I ever wanted to be. I’m not career minded. I love loving children.

Silly as it sounds… accomplishing a triathlon. I training and completed it and I loved it.

As a young child I was very easily embarrassed and vividly remember being humiliated by my second grade teacher. This has made me more compassionate with children. I want to build them up.

I dealt with chronic hives and other poor health and I’ve done a lot of reading and research on how to care for my body. I love to share this with anyone who wants to learn.

I have dealt with bad decisions… drinking too much and foolish dating decisions. I understand and have compassion for people who appear to have little discipline in some areas.

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. I would volunteer nurturing orphaned or sick babies.

4. I would get trained in some type of child/learning development so that I could work with struggling students.

5. Provide clothing, food, bedding, diapers, etc to women and children who need it.