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

Thank you Marcia Yaffe 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):

53%

68%

65%

65%

62%

56%

53%

68%

71%

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 am always learning but feel I know how to explain God’s Word.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I am not always vocal about evangelizing but I try to be there to assist any who show a need for God in their lives.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I feel serving is maybe a higher numbered gift than teaching for my life.

[H]eart

1. I love praise and worship to our Savior and our Heavenly Father.

2. When I meet someone who has needs such as even connecting a person new to the community and helping them to find their place.

3. When praying on the prayer team with someone who display some urgent, hurting needs and the prayers that God puts on my heart helps bring break through!

Those who are sincere and express deep hurts or needs.

At-risk children
Disabilities
Other – Illness

[A]bilities

Retired RN (worked mainly in pediatrics but involved with adults also)
ND -Naturopathic Doctorate

Piano Teaching

Piano, Flute

I am committed to living my best for Jesus Christ my Savior
I love to love others to Jesus but I am not pushy, I stand back many times to see where people are, listening to what the Lord is speaking to me about that person.

[P]ersonality

Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 People/Project Driven

Follower

Team

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 was about 9 years old and my family & I were attending a small Sunday School (under the American Sunday School Union) in Rural Nebraska, my teacher told us that Jesus is the Lamb of God and if we asked Him into our hearts, we would be saved from our sins. I went home that day and asked Jesus to come into my heart and forgive my sins. He Did!!!

I was learning piano and when I was old enough to play out of our Hymnal at our Sunday School, I played for the worship. I took piano lessons in Kimball, Nebraska around 20 miles away. We had a traveling preacher who would come and preach approximately 1 Sunday out of the month. I was at this Sunday School throughout High School.
I learned to play the flute in school, played faithfully in our school band-in Junior High & High School.

When I was in college at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD, I attended Church occasionally with my Great Aunt & Uncle at their Lutheran Church, also with friends at a Baptist church during those 4 years. I also played my flute in the College Marching Band. During my Senior Year, we also had a campus group that helped me to grow closer to the Lord.

Upon graduation from Augustana College, I moved to Denver, Colorado where I got my first job as an RN. I also was a member of a large church there, focusing mostly on my career as a nurse. I played flute in a church band there where we played for the church and also during Christmas for some of the shopping malls!

My salvation when I was young, I’ve never forgotten my Sunday School teacher & how much the teaching she taught affected my life.

The opportunity to become a nurse and serve those who needed care in the hospitals and later being a visiting nurse, helping young mothers with becoming a mother and examining the babies when they first came home from the hospital.

Next being a part of a group through a church -Faith Bible Chapel there in Denver and a Pastor who had a love for the Jewish People. The church started a group of singers to reach out to the Jewish people in the United States and then in 1977 started singing in Jewish to people in Israel, not to proselytize but show them how much God loves them. I was able to play piano and flute in the group for several years. It was such a wonderful positive experience to meet the Jewish people and make lasting friendships with them! Next was meeting my husband- to-be at the end of my time with the International Singers in 1983.

Loneliness was a part of my college years but I was thankful for my Great Aunt & Uncle and even got to meet another Great Aunt that I got to know through my 4 years there!

Starting over when you move is also a great challenge but taught me to rely on the Word of God and then God opening doors for meeting other wonderful people.

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 reach out to those in need for God to be first in their lives.

4. To continue in the gifts & talents God has given me in music to be a blessing to others.

5. To physically keep in shape so that I can function in health.