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

Thank you Marla Medlock 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):

71%

93%

93%

87%

100%

65%

71%

90%

84%

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 to help and encourage those in need. I do not judge and can help without judgement

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I can share my faith with others and encourage them by my story as well as the way I live.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Love to encourage and help others see that although they are in the midst of difficulty or a storm there is a silver lining on the other side. I love to help others look for hope and a solution to their situation that they can’t see while in the storm

[H]eart

1. Helping those in crisis

2. Spending time with family and friends

3. Attending church and worshipping the Lord

I love to work with adults that are going through a difficult time or help them find resources to help with their situation

Poverty/hunger
Financial stewardship
Health/fitness

[A]bilities

Benevolence Coordinator

Child Care, teaching, social work

empathy, encouragement, multi task, able to stay calm and help those in crisis without getting caught up in their emotions

children’s art, Kids Inspired To Enhance Self-esteem. trained preshcool teacher, How to stop a biting child

Willingness to meet the person where they are and encourage them.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

Leader

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 was at a church camp when I was 16 and realized that I had always prayed and believed in God but at that time realized how much I needed God in my life and that all things started with him. I prayed and asked God in to my heart and have been studying, worshipping and growing my relationship with him ever sense.

Long Hollow Baptist Church- preschool/children’s

Cumberland Presbyterian Church- preschool /children’s

A friend who walked with me through a difficult time and showed me grace and he love of Christ all during this situation.

Brother Joe who married me and my husband, his time he invested in us and they way he encouraged me and helped me get involved in helping those in need and just believing in us.

Jeff Lovingood who hired me to work at Long Hollow Baptist. He encourage, guided and showed God’s love through his own walk with God and his Leadership in developing me to be who I was in Christ and then replicating that with others to show them who they were in Christ.

I lost a brother in a car wreck and he passed away when I was 15 years old.

My younger brother was in a car wreck and was paralyzed when he was 21 and I was 23. Leaned on God a lot and helped him and encouraged him through this. His life as well as mine was empacted by this.

My parents got a divorce when I was 29.

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 give abundantly as God lead me to so that I could help other financially

4. To give of my time to non-profit organizations that help the poor

5. To help others realize their potential and prioritize their life to start with God