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

Thank you Kayla Woods 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:

53%

50%

50%

34%

46%

28%

53%

78%

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 love coming alongside people and helping them.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I like to help other people by being organized and I like to analyze things and ask “how can I make this better/more effective & efficient?”

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I’m relational with people. And if they have a willingness to talk about Jesus, I’ll offer what encouragement I can to point them to Jesus.

[H]eart

1. Talk with kids in the hallway at school and go support them at various sporting/school events.

2. Help awesome people be more awesome

3. Help people get connected with other people

Because of my job, high schoolers. I’m most comfortable in a school setting because that’s the structure I’m most familiar with. I’m also in control in that environment, which is a huge difference between school and church. The youth room is a place I try to stay far away from now.

So I’m not entirely sure at this venture who I love to work with the most. I’ve crossed paths with lots of college or fresh out of college students.

I was comfortable when working at Bob Evans serving all age ranges, except my current stage/age of life.

Welcoming/connection center, deaf interpretation

Poverty/hunger
Health/fitness
Disabilities

[A]bilities

High School Math Teacher

Summer Chemistry Lab Assistant, data entry, team building activities, restaurant greeter and server

Pretty good at conveying clues in Pictionary/Catchphrase, analyzing/critiquing, I am a decent speech writer/speaker

Encouraging those around you (Women’s ministry event key speaker alongside my mom), the book “Grace for the Good Girl”, Secret Keeper Girl, 8 ways to be a better teacher–for your students and for yourself!

When I decide to get behind someone, I’m extremely loyal and supportive.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Team

Routine

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

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

[E]xperience

I became a Christian when I was 5 years old. I was raised in a faith-centered home, which trained me well. My faith really became my own mid-college and in the years immediately after college. I was baptized the summer before my senior year of college.

Brunswick Church of the Nazarene – Brunswick, OH – Nursery worker, VBS volunteer, VBS set designer/painter, Children’s bell choir director
– over the span of 7 years.

Hope Church – Brunswick, OH – Nursery Worker, Secret Keeper Girl co-leader
-2 years immediately after college

Hope Church – Brunswick, OH – Connections Desk worker, Women’s ministry team member/secretary, Back Porch Book Club leader, Started a Young Adult Ministry and was therefore on the Leadership Team
-2 years prior to coming to Grace Church

Childhood
-home-life extremely supportive with a heavy emphasis on the importance of trying your best & working hard
-teachers, bible study leaders, extended family who loved me like their own kids
-Being a middle child—supporting and cheering on the older sibling, advising and encouraging the younger sibling

Teamwork
-Soccer, Wind Ensemble, Theater

Being at a Christ-Centered college. Heavy emphasis on community. Seeing very intelligent people connect Biblical truths and philosophy into the curriculum.

1st off, I’m actually not that compassionate. I feel like I’m more compassionate for people going through things that I haven’t experienced because I can just listen to what they are saying instead of saying “I get it, I’ve been there, I had to suck it up and deal with it–your turn!” I’m also a problem solver, so I try to fix things. Certain people I am compassionate towards, but I go more of the encouraging route. I’m empathetic—I feel like there’s a difference.

Overall theme: When the best laid plans don’t work.
My senior year of college, I was a complete and total mess. I was scared, I lacked confidence & pride in what I’d worked so hard to accomplish–and felt any honors or praise bestowed upon me was falsely given. I was completely unsure if teaching was the right job for me. It was the beginning of the end for my boyfriend and me–though we both thought we were going to get married. And I felt entirely unsettled, insanely weak for being so emotional, and was utterly exhausted.
My plans didn’t work.
It took 6 interviews to get a part-time job offer (which turned full time by the start of school). I was terrified of going to school every day.
My college friends had different schedules than me so we couldn’t talk.
But when I hit rock bottom, I truly found God. I learned to rely on him. I saw the support system that he put around me.

Overall theme: When people you look up to/adore fail in big ways.
Pastors being wolves in sheep’s clothing, people you’ve been vulnerable with–who’ve helped you grow.
Learning: How to carry on without a jaded perspective or a wall up.

Overall theme: Loneliness
Anyone I get close to moves away, goes into the mission field, goes to grad school or college, gets a boyfriend or begins parenthood and naturally become less available—all good things! But still, very alone.
Learning: How can I live within this phase to the best of my ability?

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. The beginning thought of a possible dream: Somehow support alumni who don’t go away to school/House a summer hang-out/Bible study for my former students. Providing an atmosphere where there is lots of fun, but no shinanigans.

4. Reading to people or playing games with people in a hospital or nursing home.

5. Become a sign-language interpreter.