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

Thank you Michelle Whitlock 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:

75%

40%

90%

59%

62%

68%

81%

37%

96%

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 being able to share something in a new way, a different experience or way to look at a situation.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love working with others to achieve their potential by encouraging them to dream bigger, engage with more, or work through some of their most difficult times to move towards freedom.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
My primary strength is in relational components, which blends well with care and compassion for another’s well-being and my heart hurts for those who have moved from their faith or have doubts or desires to engage more without knowledge of where to turn.

[H]eart

1. Worship – engaging in personal worship as well as leading others in the ability to experience God’s presence

2. Mentoring others, helping them to grow and develop into their dreams

3. Music

Adults (18-60)

Worship Arts, Spiritual Discipleship, Outreach

Homelessness
Poverty/hunger
Spiritual laziness

[A]bilities

Clinical Psychologist

Data entry, leadership/administration,

music – guitar and piano, puppetry,

Becoming a Romans 12 Christian, A Shephard’s Look at the 23rd Psalm, marital improvement, communication skills, Forgiveness, Traumatic Brain Injury, Behavioral Health Interventions on Pain Management, Psychological Evaluation for Bariatric Interventions, Between Awards and 4856s: How Leadership Styles Impact Behavioral Health, and the list can continue for a long time

Counselor – ability to listen, guide, and care for another

[P]ersonality

Reserved

Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

Leader

Team

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 grew up in the church, and choose to follow Christ at the age of 11. My fledgling faith had no frame of reference for prayer or study in order to ward off an attack from the enemy when entering college. I faced worldly choices and I exchanged my faith for materialism, trust in others who led me astray, and a bad choice that impacted my faith for many years in an attempt to fill a void. I ended not with a sense of wholeness, but rather debt, guilt, regret, and a mix of pride and anxiety that was not me. I found the understanding of true grace while worshipping with my 100 closest and unknown friends in a chapel at Fort Sam Houston. The void was filled with peace, hope, and love when forgiveness was granted. While all was forgiven instantly, the road to my own understanding took seven years from that time until I could truly understand what that meant and forgive myself in the same way God extended grace.

Worship Pastor, Dryden Wesleyan Church

Waynesville United Methodist Church – Ministerial Student, Praise Team Member, Small Group Bible Study Leader, Adult Ministry Teacher

First Baptist Church, Park Forest, IL, – Hospitality Team, Church Financial Auditor, Praise Team

Deployment – reduced the desire for materialism as everything needed fit in three bags for a full year and the need of the world was shown instantly.

An encouraging praise team who saw potential in a young teen who loved music and gave me a chance to grow

Army life – gave me a challenge beyond my wildest dreams, built my confidence in immeasurable ways, led me back to Christ, and brought me to Michigan

Experiencing loss of life

Constant criticism

trauma

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. My deeper understanding of theological and biblical truths to lead others into an encounter with God in worship and study

4. Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity whether on job site builds or behind the scene with financial counseling of families getting them ready for an adventure

5. open to what God is prompting for new experiences or challenges