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

Thank you Dan McLaughlin 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%

93%

90%

62%

81%

75%

75%

53%

53%

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 recognize my own lost condition and so desperately don’t want others to miss salvation and restoration from the sin that has separated them from God

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I want others to know of their value to God in the face of the lies that the enemy speaks that cause depression and doubt

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
For all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God and when we give our heart back to Jesus then we find that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

[H]eart

1. I love helping and encouraging others and leading them to a walk with Jesus

2. I love to be with the ones I love and to feel their love and unconditional acceptance in return

3. I love watching people serve the Lord and find their value.

Children and Teenagers but I love working with adults too.. just people in general

I love discipleship and I also love to create opportunities for people to gather as the body and enjoy life together in a spiritually safe and encouraging environment

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Homelessness
Drug abuse/recovery
Poverty/hunger
Spiritual laziness
At-risk children

[A]bilities

Pastor

Broadcast Communications (Radio and Television) , Public Relations/Marketing

Creative, Visionary thinking/ public speaking, mentoring,

Developing people / Mentoring / Small Church Growth,

my ability to love people and to be a visionary creative thinker and innovator

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

Challenger

People Driven

Leader

Team

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

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

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

I was 18 years old. I met a girl who introduced me to Jesus in 1979 and I knew that I was being sought out by God… I had felt it for a while, but she took me to a service where I was challenged by the speaker to just surrender and allow Him to come in and have His way in my life and I did and have never looked back

I served as youth leader of Harmony Baptist Church from 1982 to 1985
I was working full time as a Radio Personality too during this time frame

From 1985 until 2006, I served in the ministry with Youth For Christ… both as field staff and as an Executive Director. I served in Columbus OH, Bad Axe, Michigan and in Mansfield, OH.

In 2006 until present… I have been serving as the Pastor of Faith Fellowship Church in Johnstown OH

My work with teenagers and seeing life change in them while with YFC

Marrying my wife (now celebrating our 36th year of marriage) and The adoption of our 2 Children

Coming back to my home town of Johnstown OH and leading a church plant and seeing peers from childhood accept Christ and serve along side of me in ministry here at the church

My mother died at age 9 (Never had a father who I knew) and then lived in an orphanage until age 12 when I was adopted. I lost both adoptive parents to death when I was in my early 40’s

My wife underwent a hysterectomy due to ovarian cancer before our marriage in 1982 so we knew were would never naturally conceive children of our own

I have dealt with diabetes for many years and am currently on a path to a loss of a foot and lower leg due to the disease

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. I would love to speak around the world and tell others about Christ

4. I would love to open a dream center in an urban environment to do life and help other find meaning and purpose through the teaching of life skills and ultimately learn about their value found in a relationship with Jesus

5. I would love to create a home for Kids who are abandoned and who need love and encouragement to press on to achieve their own goals and God sized dreams