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

Thank you Lee Fraser 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):

34%

65%

59%

59%

25%

50%

37%

59%

81%

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 helping people learn, and am convinced that God has given vital and life-giving truths in the Bible, that are relevant to everyone.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love helping people learn, and am convinced that God has given vital and life-giving truths in the Bible, that are relevant to everyone. I love to see people realise that there is hope, relief, available in their spiritual, mental, emotional suffering (without God).

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Also at the same percentage were Serving and Giving. I see these as linked (similarly to my link between Teaching and Evangelism). Serving, Giving and Encouragement are ways of gifting others with relief (mental or practical) in their struggles – lightening their load so they have the headspace and resources for health (within their households, spirits, ministry, etc).

[H]eart

1. Pointing people (including myself) towards beauty and design – that which exists visibly around us, and invisibly in our circumstances. And acknowledging God as the source of this beauty and design.

2. Having people feel welcome and cared for – in my home, or out and about. Through food that they love, conversations that demonstrate care, presents, etc

3. Helping people understand things – whether scientific, or reflecting on their own tangled ideas/needs etc, or Scripture, or whatever else!

Ages 4-70? People who are willing to talk about hard or interesting things.

Biblical teaching and learning, relationships and counselling, helping people (insiders and outsiders) understand who Jesus is and why he matters, meals for special diets

Marriage/family issues
Educational
Other – Mental/emotional health

[A]bilities

Parenting, household management, church admin/communications

Full-time church admin, alphabet and dictionary design, tutoring (1:10-15), mission inquiries

Cooking for restricted diets, brochures/newsletters etc,

Conversations that can link to faith; linguistics; various Bible passages; looking at the influence of “the people” in the gospels and Acts; sexual purity, missions, Bible translation, trusting God, a few Psalms

My brain

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

Follower

Team

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

I learned about Jesus through growing up in church, decided/realised I believed around age 10, was baptised age 15, and got my head properly around the gospel in my early 20s.

Youth group leader early 2000s (3 years?) including Bible teaching, discipleship and events

Worship teams (singing) – early 2000s until now
Church administration including service planning – 2007-8, 2017-18

Leading women’s Bible studies – early 2000s until 2015
1:1 Bible study – 2012-2015

God’s rescue and provision during both major conflict times overseas

God’s arranging of circumstances to move me off the path I was on, during the grim bits of childhood

Recovery/growing out of the challenges of raising babies and toddlers

Grim seasons/aspects of childhood

Painful and destructive conflict with teammates overseas (x2)

Depression and postnatal depression

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. Meet regularly with people struggling spiritually, mentally, emotionally, to bring them clarity, compassion, comfort, freshness, God’s truth

4. Full-time admin, communications, event planning etc at church

5. #6 Data processing for language work for Wycliffe