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

Thank you Karen Stroud 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:

59%

53%

56%

65%

53%

34%

37%

68%

37%

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:
God chose for me to have this gift. I enjoy serving others

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Everything that I have has been furnished to me by God. I believe in giving back to the universe. The universe has an infinite amount of stuff. We I give to others I receive 10 fold in return, be it physically, financially or emotionally.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I am not sure why I have this gift.

[H]eart

1. I love to cook and feed others.

2. I love to spend time with family and friends.

3. I love being creative.

I love to work with other creative people. Creativity has no age limit.

Communication. Just an observation but sometimes there are too many chiefs and not enough Indians.

Poverty/hunger
Policy/politics
Health/fitness

[A]bilities

Retired

Sales, sewing machine repairs, customer service, building maintenance, supervision, housekeeping,

Cooking, some sewing, wood working, creativity in general.

My sense of humor and my ability to make people smile.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

Project Driven

Leader

Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Lion’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Otter’, 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

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

Baptized as an infant. Baptized as an adult around 1980 when I accept Jesus Christ as my savior.

Rev. Hal Kimmins Was the pastor of out church when I was a teen. He and his wife sponsored our Methodist Youth Fellowship at our church. They believed that we should be exposed to some of the other religions that were in the area so we had an understanding of the different beliefs. That way when we became an adult we could make our own decision on what church we wanted to attend that met our spiritual needs. Very progressive thinking for the early 1960’s. The congregation did not agree with him and voted him out of the church. He inspired me to become a free thinker.

I was the only girl and the baby of my family but I was my fathers shadow. He taught me to shoot a gun, build things from wood, how to repair my bike, how to change a tire and so much more. He helped me to understand that there were no limits on what I could accomplish.

I have been married twice and divorced twice. The first divorce left me to be a single parent of two kids with no child support. Being a single parent is a tough job.

When I was married to my second husband I had a miscarriage. Unfortunately it led to me needing a hysterectomy so I was unable to have any more children. Miscarriages are an emotional strain.

When I came out my best friend walked away from my life. My heart was broke but it taught me that it was not my fault.

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 move to San Antonio to be closer to my church family.

4. I would have an elevator installed at our church so people with disabilities could enjoy our church services.

5. I would have an electrician come in and rewire the social hall so we would not need to run extension cords during our potlucks.