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

Thank you Kelly Galliher 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:

18%

37%

37%

34%

53%

25%

12%

40%

34%

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 have compassion for others

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I enjoy helping others

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I do love Jesus and believe He is my Lord and Savior

[H]eart

1. Spend time with my girls

2. Be at church..singing, or listening, or taking notes

3. Helping babies and families at my work

babies

nursery

Parenting
Poverty/hunger
At-risk children

[A]bilities

Pediatric Occupational Therapist

being an amazing mom

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

Follower

Team

Routine

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

Born and raised in the Catholic Church. Grew to love the Christian church after falling away from the Catholic religion as a married mom.

As a young woman, I served in the Catholic Church as a lector, Eucharistic Minister and religious education teacher. None of it seemed important to me or the church and it was all before college. Later, in the Christian churches I joined, I served in the nurseries.

Having my daughters and becoming a mom has definitely made the biggest impact on who I am today. They give me purpose, hope, life. They are my sunshine and my inspiration. Not a day goes by that I am not thanking God for them and telling them how much I love them.

Meeting the girl who ended being one of my closest friends and eventually my wife is another positive impact on my life. She was the first person to teach me and show me what unconditional love is. She helped me realize that there really is a Kelly underneath it all and she is worthy of love.

Making the decision to move to Cleveland was probably the most impactful experience in my life. It really showed me that, for the VERY FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE, I can be successful on my own. I am living alone and loving it. I am independent, making my own decisions and surviving. Something that some people were pretty sure I could never do. For this, I am grateful.

When I left an emotionally abusive marriage of nearly 20 years (that no one knew about), I was ostracized. My family treated me terribly. My parents said things you would never say to your child. They did not understand. I now have compassion for estranged families. Separated families. Divorced families. Kids that don’t get to live with their moms or dads-like mine did not get to live with me. It is heart breaking.

My parents are also divorced. They stayed together, through a rocky marriage, until 3 out of 4 us kids were out of high school. They thought that was best. I think we saw and experienced just too much. So they divorced when I was in college. Again, I have compassion for kids that have parents who aren’t together. I understand what my own children are going through, as their dad and I are not together.

I had childhood anxiety. Probably still have some!! lol
I did not realize what it was at the time, but I sure do now. I believe it stems from a time in my life when I was subjected to sexual abuse in my own home. Again, this is not something my parents know anything about.
I feel it gives me compassion for others, especially young kiddos, that may have gone through something like this-whether abuse or anxiety.

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 the needs of my community-little peope first

4. Serve the needs of my country-like a mission trip here in the states

5. Serve with a mission trip out of the country