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

Thank you Paul D. Buchanan 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 (in alphabetical order):

65%

62%

50%

62%

62%

50%

34%

53%

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:
I enjoy teaching others what I have learned and learning from others what they have learned. I also like to explore and learn new truths together. Helping people to discover new truth and understanding is fulfilling.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I find fulfillment in helping to make things work and finding ways to motivate others to work together for a common goal and for the greater good. I see the importance of structure within spontaneity.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
To see others find Christ and grow in their faith is exciting. Since I work in a very secular environment God has given me opportunity to be a light to those who do not know Him.

[H]eart

1. I love to prepare and teach a Sunday School lesson.

2. I love music. Listening to it. Singing it. Playing it. Being part of a musical group.

3. I like being around people. Sharing life. Helping each other. Encouraging one another. Bearing each others burdens.

Working with men.
Playing with children and hanging with middle school age kids.

Finding ways to connect with the community around us. Helping the congregation to connect with one another. Experiencing the presence of God.

Homelessness
Marriage/family issues
Educational

[A]bilities

Letter Carrier for the United States Postal Service

Pastoring a local church congregation (30 years)
Pressman in the printing industry (10 years)

Resourcefulness
Mechanically inclined
Collaboration

Church Planting, Pauline Epistles, Exploring Christian Holiness, Hebrew Prophets, Synoptic Gospels, How to Raise Teenagers.

Being thoughtful and kind.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Team

50-50 Routine/Variety

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

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

When I was 10 years old I started my walk with Christ at the conclusion of a revival service. That journey has continued and grown to this day.

Currently serving as a pastor (unofficial) to those I work with at the Post Office in Beaverton, OR (2014-now)

Church Planter/Lead Pastor – New Beginning Church of the Nazarene, Mt. Airy, MD (2004-2014)

Lead Pastor/Associate Pastor – Maryland (1992-2004)

Sensing God’s call to Pastoral Ministry and total surrender to that call. That call and God’s continued affirmation has held me steady through my educational years.

Marrying Danette. Her partnership has been a great source of strength and encouragement as we have navigated life together.

God has brought a great number of Christians into my life that believed in me, invested in me and modeled for me how to live out my faith and be effective in ministry.

Needing to trust God when I did not know what was next for my life. Having to wait for and the next, believing that God would work it out.

Having to step aside from pastoral ministry because of the need for recovery in our lives. This time in my life turned out to have great benefits and helped me to be a better pastor.

Experiencing a power struggle with a family that dominated the church I pastored.

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. Help provide clean water to areas of the world where it is a scarcity.

4. Develop assess to education for those whose availability is limited.

5. Serve as a full-time volunteer in an urban church setting.