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

Thank you Patrick Joyce 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):

62%

75%

50%

46%

34%

62%

62%

84%

87%

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:
Been a high school marketing teacher for 32 years (retired), helped in religious ed classes for middle school and high school, including confirmation.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Lecture at church, Adult Serving during masses, have helped fund raise for the Belize trips.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Enjoy helping our group leader with our small prayer group. Help on Wednesday’s daily online mass production. Ask me how I evangelize at Zimbrick’s.

[H]eart

1. Being an active participant at mass (Adult Serving, Online mass production)

2. Meeting in our small prayer group and discussing scripture.

3. Whenever I can get out on the golf course.

People that are my age (58) take or give 10-15 years on either side.

The “None’ers”, my two adult children, fit into this group after attending catholic grade school and getting confirmed at St. Dennis (church worship is non-existent for them).

Spiritual laziness
Educational
Health/fitness

[A]bilities

Retired, but two part-time jobs at Zimbrick and Target.

Taught at Memorial High School for 32 years in Marketing and Business.

Technology, Public speaking, Loyalty

A couple of times Terry Ludkey asked if I could run a small prayer group.

Loyal and dependable.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

Follower

Team

Variety

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

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

[E]xperience

Life long Catholic, born and raised here in Madison. Graduated from St. Dennis School, did public schools for high school and college. Confirmed at St. Dennis. Started Lectoring while in college and have continued the rest of my life. Started to get involved in the St. Dennis community when Fr. Mike Resop invited me to be part of Parish Council. When Deacon Dave started his ministry at St. Dennis I jumped at helping him out, loved his style reaching out to the high school students and his Rocky Mountain experiences. At some point for 7-10 years I help with the “Word and Communion services here at St. Dennis. Helped with Festival. Fundraising for new church and remodel. I love St. Dennis.

St. Dennis: Religious Education (MS and HS), Lecturing since 1983, word and communion services, Adult serving.

Deacon Dave calls it a “Mountain Top” experience. From masses on the mountain, recreation at the camp, having the high school retreat and good adult bonding.

Another experience with Deacon Dave is spending a week in Belize and helping and ministering in this third world country.

Serving at Church. Back while attending school at St. Dennis I served from 4th grade through high school, then about five years ago, I was asked if I wanted to Adult serve. What a great experience being at the Lord’s table.

Parents getting divorced after celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. Learned how the relationship between husband and wife needs a positive relationship and open communication and honesty to survive (just celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary several weeks ago).

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. Spending more than just an hour in prayer/scripture studies.

4. Enjoy daily activities with my life partner-Mary

5. Encourage my two children back to the church.