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

Thank you Lisa Marie Prince 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):

43%

59%

68%

59%

59%

43%

37%

75%

56%

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 like to make others comfortable and to work behind the scenes to get things done and to provide support. I enjoy being a “worker bee”

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I use my experiences and lessons to encourage others because I wish I had had more of that in my life

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I like sharing God’s love and compassion and the things I have experienced of His grace and mercy towards me

[H]eart

1. Encouraging

2. Serving

3. Dancing

Young adults and adults

Inner Healing, Counseling

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
At-risk children

[A]bilities

Pharmaceutical Representative

Shipping and Logistics

Dancing , Creative arts, Anything Artsy or Creative

Dance, Marketing

Pulling alongside others

[P]ersonality

Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

People Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

50-50 Routine/Variety

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

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

[E]xperience

I accepted the Lord as Saviour and got baptised when I was 16 years old. However my real faith journey began three years later at the age of 19 when I really started to pursue an active relationship with God. It was at this time that I began to experience God as friend and companion, an ever present help, a guide and a source of comfort. It was also at this time that I began to spend more time in the Word, started to grow in my understanding and experience of worship and also began to identify God’s hand at work in various situations that I encountered. For the next 19 years as a member of a local church fellowship I served God through various ministries and in various capacities. During this time I was also active in Bible Study, Sunday School and at various points small groups. At the age of 38 that is when I REALLY STARTED TO ENCOUNTER & EXPERIENCE God as Saviour, as Redeemer , as Sanctifier, as FATHER, as Lover of my Soul as He began the process of outworking Ezekiel 36:26 in me, giving me a new heart and a new spirit, removing the stubborn and stony heart and giving me a tender and responsive heart. It is in the last 4 years that I have come into greater wisdom and revelation about God’s grace, Jesus’ death and what the shedding of His blood means for me, the process of brokenness, healing and restoration, the refiner’s fire, God’s genuine and enduring love for me, His ultimate purpose for me as He molds me into His image and likeness, the Holy Spirit and His relational role in my life and soooooo much more. God is becoming REAL for me. I am nor finally beginning to truly walk in the joy, peace, contentment and hope that He intended for me to walk in, the abundant life Jesus came to give me. He has done a root level heart work in me and continues to do so, uprooting pride and its companion fear along with all its other “compadres”. I have released the need to be perfect , I am learning to apply more grace to myself. I am embracing the greatest commandment to love the Lord my God, love myself and to love others. This now has a totally new meaning for me. I am truly a work in progress, learning to surrender to God’s process with the assurance that He is a Good God, He is faithful, He is for me and He is wirking ALL things for my good and ultimately for His Glory. That He withholds no good thing from me and His plan really is to prosper me and not to hram me, to give me hope and a future, but this is all a process. I now believe that God has given me a special grace for the PROCESS and is trusting me to take me deeper so He can take me higher. He is doing much of the root level work in me, the foundation work so that when I encounter trouble in this life, which He has so mercifully warned me of, I can have peace knowing that He has overcome it all and that means that I have overcome it all. Now as He provides opportunities for me to be discipled He is simultaneously using the gift He has given me to help me to encourage others. My God is GOOD. He is faithful. He is for me. And I am His.

Bethel Baptist Church, 6 Hope Road, Kingston 10 (Member from 1995 to 2020):
(1) Founding Member of Bethel Steel Orchestra
(2) Youth Empowerment Officer
(3) Assistant Youth Related Ministry Director
(4) Leader and Member of Bethel Dance Ministry
(5) Member of Church Council (6) Member of Bethel Cybercentre Committee
(6) Member of Missions and Evangelism Committee
(7) Served with Bethel Drop-in Centre
(8) Member of Youth Chorale
(9) Member of KSABA Chorale

Transformed Life Church, 34 Hope Road, Kingston 6 (Member from September 2020 to present, church home from August 2018:
(1) Reception Ministry as an Usher
(2) Missions Ministry
(3) Participated in Life Groups
(4) Currently doing Discipleship

(1) My formative years spent at Fay Simpson’s Preparatory and Dance School

(2) The outpouring of love and generosity I experienced in 2004 when I spent time overseas pursuing a short course of study

(3) TLC’s Encounter in December 2016 and the process it ONLY BEGUN

(1) Growing up with a mother with Mental Health Challenges and a father ill-equipped to deal with them, and ultimately the impact that had on me being mothered, on the relationship I observed between my parents, our life as a family, an unhealthy perspective of life that I developed and my subsequent life challenges which stemmed from (albeit unintentional) emotional neglect.

(2) My experience with “friendships” and social interactions at Queen’s Preparatory and Immaculate Conception High

(3) A broken wedding engagement

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. To help others to live a MUCH healthier Spiritual, Emotional and Relational life than I have lived for most of my life, sharing my life lessons with a view to help them better maneuver these aspects of life

4. To be part of a family unit that God uses to positively impact on family life in Jamaica for the benefit of marriages, parents and children and by extension communities. This would include adopting or fostering as many children as God sees fit and to pour all that God has been pouring into me over the last 4 years into them, helping to prepare them to be Kingdom men and women

5. To create a ministry that uses a multiplicity of avenues to provide information that by the Spirit of God provides Revelation , Leading to the Transformation of lives. The basis of this would be the fact that God’s word says that “the people perish for lack of knowledge/vision”, so this ministry would be an AUTHENTIC and OPEN and HONEST place for people to come to have God’s wisdom and training to be imparted to them to deal with life issues that traditional church does not seem to address. A ministry where people are taught the things that some would say cannot be taught (like parenting) but which i believe with my whole heart NEED to be taught. Yes, some things cannot be taught BUT some things CAN be taught if we take the time to allow God to show us how.