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

Thank you Nicci Elliott 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:

87%

75%

78%

75%

75%

40%

59%

84%

65%

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 feel like God made my brain to see not only the big picture or end goal, but all the minute detail needed to get there. This is absolutely a gifting of mine.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I’m always willing to jump in and help. I feel like God has helped me so much and I only want to show that to others.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
People need love and encouragement. I am always asking God to show me someone’s true identity and I love speaking in to that.

[H]eart

1. I love to organize. Anything to do with office, administration, and planning makes me happy

2. I love just spending time with people. One of my favorite things is to host a party or get together and see how everyone enjoys their time together.

3. I want my home to always be open.

Older teens, adults (women especially).

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Spiritual laziness

[A]bilities

Office Manager, Event Coordinator, Small Business Consultant

Database Management, General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Payable/Receivable, Mental Health – Private Practice.

Organizing, Event Planning, Communication Skills, Research Skills,

Listening, Communicating/Mediating during disagreements

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

High Risk

Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

Team

Routine

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’ve always been one. I decided at a young age that I needed to know Jesus and it’s been growing ever since. I had a short stent of straying (3 months) but overall I can’t remember my life without Jesus. He’s always been the one thing I could count on and cling to and without Him, there’s no joy.

Transformation Christian Center
Moundsville, WV
Administrator, Children’s Ministry, Celebrate Recovery Leader, etc. (since start – 3 years)

Greater Things Ministries (moved/changed name to Transformation Christian Center)
Wheeling, WV
Leader, Media Crew (2 years)

Congregational Missionary Church
Clarksburg, WV
Youth Leader, Church Camp Counselor, etc. (3 years)

The birth of my first son came with a whole new understanding of the Father’s love. It opened the door for me to seek more what God’s heart was. It was after my son’s birth that I started pursuing a relationship with God more than anything else.

My husband and I have hosted quite a few friends who were in a hard position. They lived with us for a time (ranging from a month to 2 1/2 years). The most incredible was a young man named Daniel. He moved to WV from Kenya and was in school to get his Master’s in Nursing. He began leading worship in our church and shortly after, he was in need of a place to stay. We didn’t have much of a relationship with him when we offered him a place to live but it turned in to a beautiful relationship that is still active today. We became like siblings and to this day, our kids play together. It was his heart for God and his understanding of the Word that challenged me. He wasn’t okay leaving me in my comfort. He pushed me and challenged me with conversations, studies, worship, and getting me to step out more. I am forever grateful to his leading. It’s because of him that I understand the Holy Spirit.

Growing up, I had an incredible church family. My home life wasn’t the worst but it certainly wasn’t the best. I was the only one who went to church (we lived a block away so I just walked every service). It was the people in that church that showed me what family is supposed to look like. I was always supported, encouraged, served, etc. They taught me how to SERVE and how special it was to others. To this day, even though I’ve moved, I still consider these people family and in my hardest moments (losing my son), they still showed up and served me. Their hearts are such a vision of God’s heart and always proves to me how much I’m loved and cared for. This is such a huge part of why I want to serve others. I don’t want anyone thinking that they are alone or unloved.

My husband and I worked through my mistake of adultery. Working together to restore our marriage was a huge blessing. It drew us each closer to God and closer to each other. This shows me that even our worst mistakes can be forgiven and restored. It also showed me that everything in life is a choice, especially loving another person. Love is a choice that God made and that, if each of us know our identity, a choice that we will make each and every day.

My husband and I lost our infant son less than a year ago. He was diagnosed with anencephaly (his brain didn’t grow). We were fully expecting a miracle and planned on living a long and wonderful life with him. While the experience of losing him could have drawn me away from God with anger, disappointment, grief, or confusion, I was willing to let go of what the world had taught me. The truth is that God is GOOD and it is through Him that I live. I have peace that my son is well loved and taken care of in Heaven and I have HOPE because I know I will see him again one day. This experience has caused me to want nothing more than God and to show people how even the worst things in life have hope in them.

As a teenager, I had to step up and help provide for the household. I am the oldest of 3 kids and my mother wasn’t in a good place. At that time, she was in the middle of her 3rd divorce and “out of it” on pills often. While I was resentful at first because it meant less fun for me and more work, it taught me a lot of responsibility and to never judge a family by what they looked like. To the outside world, we looked like a healthy and thriving family, all the while there was resentment and financial despair going on. It was also in this time when my church family (who didn’t KNOW what was going on but was suspicious) stepped up and found ways to help us out. It was one of the many times in my life where they supported me and encouraged me, showing me once again the power of God’s love and presence.

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. Build people up in businesses in instances where they wouldn’t typically have the opportunity (i.e. ex-cons, ex-addicts, people without schooling, etc.)

4. Be able to financially support a local church in a BIG way to where money was never an issue for what the church wanted to accomplish

5. Build/Run a “community center” – a safe place for children/families when in need and to receive training classes/family classes needed to help them gain skills to better their situations.