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

Thank you Michelle 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:

62%

43%

65%

75%

62%

28%

31%

53%

62%

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:
God keeps impressing stewardship and my ability to bless with what I have to relieve and encourage others – it feels selfish to keep it to myself.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I feel compelled to be able to lift up people that are struggling

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I want to keep the big things the big things, and good admin makes this possible – streamline so the details don’t detract from the bigger picture.

[H]eart

1. Visiting to encourage and bring joy, peace, or inspiration

2. Traveling to support gospel ministry – to learn from believers, encourage

3. Creating things by art or craft – designing

Lonely, shy, unconfident,

Solid, deep bible gospel teaching about sin, grace, holiness, regeneration, worship and mission; hospitality for deep family community; supporting remote mission workers; issues – honesty and grace with truth, not religiosity and law, transformative love; making decisions based on God’s leading – prayer with faith – not just the rational safe facts and figures on a page; all are equally loved, involved; prophecy and discernment and exhortation are valued with humility.

Homelessness
Poverty/hunger
At-risk children

[A]bilities

Graphic design and marketing

Administration, piano tuition, retail, small business management

Illustrator, pianist

Has been compassion for suffering

[P]ersonality

Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 People/Project Driven

Follower

Solo

Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Retriever’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Lion’, 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

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

[E]xperience

Grew up in a Christian home and learned faith and love in action from my parents gifts of hospitality, mercy, exhortation, teaching, and love for the global persecuted church, and learned the depths of relationship with Jesus through chronic illness from a kid til now, as well as with lost sibling relationships and heartbreak during teens and early twenties.

Maranatha Church – youth group, music team

BSF young adults – small group leader, CYC teen camp leader, Middle East outreach & support trip, music team for nursing homes, conference, carols nights

Hawthorn Church of Christ mission support team leader & field visits, fundraising and community events, deacon, music team and music coordinator/administrator, youth, young adults ministry inc cooking, leading and leadership team, women’s ministry small group leader and leadership team, 9 years

Hard family financial circumstances with christian parents – learned faith, stewardship and generosity; parents involvement with people struggling from all walks – learned grace, discernment, compassion

Having siblings 10 and 15 years younger than me – taught me to nurture, serve, be loved, love and lead

Being at Hawthorn – being family, serving together, forming a close friendship group

Chronic health – limitations, grief, pain, resilience, acceptance, faith, inability

Dad’s chronic health – caring and making tough medical calls, adjusting life

Sibling /family relationship total breakdowns/estrangement, heartbreak, prayer and action for peace making

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. Serve and support tough mission work and ministry amongst vulnerable with skills, encouragement,

4. Foster kids and create s community of trust around them, help restore them

5. Big Open home/property for people to stay, visit, recoup, heal, restart – abused, homeless, parents and kids starting again, lonely