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

Thank you Julie Jenkins 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:

46%

31%

46%

68%

40%

12%

28%

68%

40%

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’m willing to help those in need and make things easier for them by showing love & compassion.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I tend to serve first and put myself last in a lot of situations.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I am task orientated. I am organized. I try to find ways to make things easier on repeated tasks. I’m going in a lot of directions at work and have to manage several things at all the same time.

[H]eart

1. Taking care of my family, pets and our home. I love to cook and host holidays at our home.

2. I love to worship and sing praises to the Lord. At home, in my car or at church.

3. Helping others in need, whether that be at work or just in general.

Infants, Graduate Students, My husband on projects around the house, women around my age or a little younger (35 – 50 years old).

Coming from a small church, when people would leave there was no follow up to see why they left – like an exit form or something where they might feel more comfortable to open up and share what was wrong or why their needs where not being met? Worship used to be my excitement until I was really hurt in that area.

Marriage/family issues
Abuse/violence
At-risk children

[A]bilities

Graduate Coordinator / Office Manager in the Department of Kinesiology & Community Health at UIUC.

Factory worker/Equipment Operator at Kraft Foods, Office Manager for a temp service, about every position you could think of in the church, and food service.

Excel spreadsheets and organizing things. Gardening, cooking, singing and playing the bass guitar.

My husband and I taught children’s church and were also youth leaders for awhile.

Serving

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

50-50 Routine/Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Lion’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Beaver’, and here are the descriptions of your Personalities, and how they can be used for God

Lion- This personality likes to lead. The lion is good at making decisions and is very goal-oriented. They enjoy challenges, difficult assignments, and opportunity for advancement. Because lions are thinking of the goal, they can step on people to reach it. Lions can be very aggressive and competitive. Lions must learn not to be too bossy or to take charge in other’s affairs.

Strength: Goal-oriented, strong, direct
Weakness: Argumentative, too dictatorial
Limitation: Doesn’t understand that directness can hurt others, hard time expressing grace

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 became a Christian at 12, fell away around 15 and returned around 28.

Served in every area you can think of at First Assembly of God in Gibson City, which later became New Beginnings Christian Fellowship. From 1997 – 2017

Bookkeeping, janitorial, nursery, children’s & youth leader, small group host, church website editor, grounds keeper, meal organizer for the sick or elderly.

Worship team (singing and playing the bass guitar). Setup & CleanUp Team at events. Whenever and wherever there was a need, me & my husband helped.

Serving as Christ did
Outreach – by loving and showing people you care.

Outreach – loving and showing people you care.

Marrying the love of my life and how he has shown me what love really is (from a man).

Child of divorce – did not want my child to go through the same thing that I did. I’ve been married since June 1997, praise God!

Abused as a child and as a young adult

Alcohol & Drug Abuse

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. Traveling and helping others by serving where there is a need.

4. Feeding and caring for the homeless and the less fortunate.

5. Adopting as many orphans as I possible could to show them they are special and loved so much