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

Thank you KAREN DENISE NEAL-HINES 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):

90%

84%

75%

75%

78%

96%

78%

78%

100%

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:
Teaching does not feel like work and it comes very easy to me and form I study just as much as I teach and the best learners make the best teachers.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I never thought of this as a gift

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have always been administratively blessed even as a child

[H]eart

1. I love to cook

2. I love to study the word

3. I love to share the word through teaching and singing

I like to work with the senior woman, single woman,

Church attendance concerns me, leadership in name only concerns me, being held accountable concerns me

Homelessness
Drug abuse/recovery
Alcoholism
Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Poverty/hunger
Financial stewardship
Abuse/violence
Spiritual laziness
Educational
At-risk children
Policy/politics
Divorce
Health/fitness
Disabilities
Other – complacent worship

[A]bilities

Medical billing and coding specialist (civilian)
Sunday School/Bible Institute Teacher

Soldier 25yrs

Logistics, Legal clerk, accounting tech, Administrative Personnel Supv. Bible marksman, map reader (Topical)

Various Biblical subjects
Military workshops

I have a great sense of humor and capable of taking the most devastating situation and find the silver lining

[P]ersonality

Reserved

Low Risk

Peace Maker

Project Driven

Follower

Solo

Variety

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

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

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 was 19 in college stayed for summer school to get ahead. I kept having this recurring dream of me being walked through the woods to the river dressed in white to be baptized. I kept explaining the dream to my grandmother who told me to find a preacher. No being from Hampton, VA I went to the Student Union and asked the caretaker named Woody did he know where I could find a preacher and he asked me why and I explained the dream and my grandmother’s instructions and he just happened to be an Elder of a church in New Port News, VA. He asked me did I believe in God and that Jesus died on the cross to save my soul and I said yes and he took me to his church and I was baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and to this day I cannot explain the burden lifted off of me as I came up out of the water as I was a new creature in Christ.

MT Jezreel Baptist Church, MAM Ministry, Hospitality, Keddesh, Women’s, Culinary Arts, Christian Education, and Deacon ministry.

Becoming a Deacon

receiving my MA IN Christian Leadership

While preparing to retire I planned to do some traveling but my mom got sick and had to live with me for 9 weeks and she left my home 17 days before my retirement date returning to her home.

Something happened to my daughter while in HS and I was devastated to the point of wanting to kill but God had taken over and given me a peace to be able to accept the travesty and trust him in handling the situation. It was at that point that I grew to a level of maturity in Christ.

My mother’s death. Death can bring families together as well a tear them apart and my family was no different. While at the time my siblings took a different stance

Being boarded out of the Military. While my record was stellar, I was not favord by the male dominated organization as this was well before the Me too revolution and sexual harrassment was very prevalent amongst my peers. However, my unit contracted me back .

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 love for my husband and I to go on missionary trips

4. I would like to do work shop that would empower women transitioning from prison to the community and work force

5. I would like to do workshops for our youth to break the cycle of entitlement and empower them with social skill-sets to include etiquette lessons in social interaction.