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

Thank you Michael Saksa 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:

93%

81%

96%

81%

87%

78%

84%

50%

75%

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:
Over 35 years working as an Agent, Manager and an Executive for State Farm insurance companies.I have had the opportunity to teach, train and develop not only my own employees and the employees of other agents. I also mentored these same individuals to become agents themselves.
I became a mentor to them over a two year training period so they would succeed in their own agency. A number of these individuals themselves became executives and moved on to help others.

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This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Running a business for 35 years taught me what it takes to be successful.
It also showed me that you are successful not only through your own efforts, but through the efforts of those around you.
My philosophy was and still that individuals worked with me and not for me. We as a Team served and educated our clients for what they needed not ours alone.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
The way that the Lord helped me during my lifetime instilled in me to the desire to help others.
The most important thing in life is that we never give up HOPE.
This iswhere my heart is in showing people that no matter hope dark the moment may be there is a light out there just waiting for you.
What better reward is there is watch a frown turn into a smile and new beginning to be born.

[H]eart

1. To help others, to be a resource for other and to show love to others

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I enjoy working with others at the beginning of their young lives and at autum years of their lives

To feel part of something that is bigger than myself

Parenting
Educational
At-risk children

[A]bilities

Retired

Owning my own business for 35 years.
Worked in the banking field as well worked as designer in the architectural field.

Working with other to uncover needs that may help them over come future Concerns.

Sales, Marketing,Leadership and other managerial skills.

Desire to see others succeed.

[P]ersonality

People Driven

Leader

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

Having been a Catholic for 70 plus years my oldes daughter is the one who encouraged both my wife and I to attend her CHURCH ( Church of the Highlands) in Birmingham. It was there that we discovered the difference between Religion and Faith.

None

Married to my wife the love of my life for the last 50 years

The birth of my two daughters

The birth of my three grandchildren

I have been Blessed not to have an negative experience that would have a caused me to me be anyone different than who I am,
The compassion I feel is innate when it comes to helping others.

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. That my yougest daughter,husband and their 2 daughters be saved

4. That I become a better Christian

5. That my wife and I would enjoy the best Peace and Joy that God wants in our lives