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

Thank you Kathleen Hopkins 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):

59%

50%

78%

78%

93%

21%

18%

37%

46%

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 a God gift in advocating for others in deep need from self determination to empowerment and faith building. I truly love people and find them a beauty in life; I also quest to harmonize people with….people:). Better together!

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
God has given me the gift of rapport with those in need; an ability to see need and reach others during that time of great need.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I am simplistic. I don’t need much and can share anything from myself to my money to the left orm of my warm coat,

[H]eart

1. I do love beauty and find it in many things including faith and how that looks when well aligned. I love finding happiness on many levels (where one is and too, aspires to be). I love quest and adventure and learning.

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3.

I love all people but have great heart for young and old.

Truly reaching people: who they are, where they are and effective methodologies to engage.

Homelessness
Financial stewardship
Other – Spiritual palliative care

[A]bilities

Social services

Executive management

A spring of love in my heart, wide variety of program development and management, creative thought leadership, strong voice for advocacy.

Health, money management, children,s programming

My tender heart and growing faith

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

High Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

50-50 Routine/Variety

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

Fought Christianity most life as Father left his deep devotion to God befor I was born when he and my mom lost a baby born premature. Ironically, God pursued me through my Fathers tragic Alzheimer’s disease and ultimate death. At this same time God removed the very large and immeshed family of origin for me, exacerbated my volatile and unhappy marriage, removed my beloved daughter to college, destroyed my career in a political attack and drew my son into darkness. God then asked me “can you hear me now” and I hopped on my bike saying “I,m after you,”.

Brookdale Senior Living pre COVID

Close love and relationship with my father

Intervening in lives of sister in law and two young boys

Loving families; origin, in-laws, nucleus

Being falsely accused: high school, job, family destruction

Death: best friend, father, professional exposure (Eddie and WM)

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. Mission work

4. Community spiritual and healing space for children or others

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