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

Thank you Rawad Shlewet 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):

75%

78%

62%

84%

46%

81%

87%

87%

90%

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:
revealing biblical truth about Jesus is my passion sharing it with others

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Shepherding God’s people is my calling

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
taking care and helping others satisfies me in following Jesus example

[H]eart

1. Helping homeless and orphan children

2. Sspending time with my family

3. Discovering Biblical truth from the context and the meaning behind the passage

Teenagers 16-25

Not obeying God’s Word.
Pride and not accepting mentoring.
Judging others.

Homelessness
Poverty/hunger
Spiritual laziness

[A]bilities

Pastor of Arabic speaking church

Handy man

Computer skills, writing poetry

I can deal with Arabic culture

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

Solo

50-50 Routine/Variety

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

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

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

My story with Jesus started when I was ten years old.
I got a bible for children, I read it many times. Which helped me to know all the Bible stories in the old and new testament.
Because of my knowledge of the stories of the Bible, I did bible trivia for my classmates in Sunday school.
Also, I was praying, ritual prayers I got from the church, to read before bedtime.
My love for the word of God continued until the age of 13. When I was in junior high school, I started to fall away from the church and became to live like other kids.
While I was growing up my problems grew with me also. I felt unworthy, I lost the meaning of my life. I lived in a mess and I didn’t know what I wanted.
I wasn’t evil towards people but I was evil towards myself, because I broke many of God’s commandments.
My relationships with my family were not steady. My father was working all the time, I did not really know him or spend time with him except for the holidays. My mother asked too much of me which made me feel discontent with myself. I felt I could not satisfy her or the expectations she put on me.
When I was 26 years old, I loved a girl, she was 19 years old and I said to myself this is the woman I am going to be with for the rest of my life. I also believed; she will save me from the loss I used to feel.
So, I started to work long hours so I make a future and ask her to marry me. But after 10 months of a relationship, she decided to be just friends without giving any other reason.
Here, I started to blame God that he doesn’t love me and take everything I love from me. I hated Him and I hated my life.
One day, I was complaining to my friend, who knows about the bible who happened to not live what the bible said at all.
I said to him, “You know me, I am a good person! Look at how God is treating me!” my friend answered, “Do not judge, you too will be judged, before you judge God, judge yourself.”
When he said this word, I remembered my sins and I said to myself, If God is punishing me for my sins and made me lose the relationship with the girl I love. He is just! Then I began to wonder what God wants from me.
My friend and I decided to go to the local Christian bookstore and distribute the four spiritual laws and other booklets from Campus Crusade.
At the same time, we borrowed books to read for ourselves. While we were at the bookstore, we met a young man who works there, he sat with us and told us about God’s love and how we need to be born again to become a new creation in Christ. To become one with Him and experience His love and plan for our lives.
October 7th, 2010, I gave my life to Jesus. I began my journey with discipleship and studying God’s word.
I would study the bible in the same local Christian bookstore for 6 months. Meanwhile, my life changed progressively, I understood that I am loved and valued even with all my faults. I experienced the meaning and purpose of my life.
I volunteered as a Sunday School helper, then later as a youth group leader for high school students.
After a year, I worked with Campus Crusade and became involved with their ministry.
Exactly, on the 2nd year of my spiritual birthday, I had the chance to go to Lebanon to study at the bible college for a year. so that I can come back and serve God more. When I finished my year, I went back to Campus Crusade and became working with them full time as a leader.
I met my wife, Nirmeen there, and got married in 2014. In 2015, we left Campus Crusade due to political changes in the ministry.
I joined the Alliance Church as a youth leader for high school students, as well as University students. Also, I had other responsibilities in the church.
God blessed me and my family in marvelous ways, and we do not have the time to share about all His blessings.
With a great miracle, in 2018 we came to Canada. We were waiting 2 years for our immigrant status through Foothills Alliance Church.
After we arrived in Canada, the first year was very difficult because I was missing my church in Damascus, I thought I lost my ministry. I was even afraid that I lost my calling for serving God.
After a hard year, God blessed us with the Arabic church and started to minister as a preacher for a few months.
As usual, God opened a new door through the church and through Ken Demare from WCD, who asked me to be the pastor of the Arabic Church.
I will never forget what he said to me, “We send missionaries to the world but now God sends missionaries to us, for that we need to take care of them.”
I did not even have any diploma or masters in theology, the leaders and district believed in my calling. God gave me grace in all of their eyes.
During the few months, I prepared for WCD meeting to have a license as a pastor. It was my first time and I passed the meeting with success. I got ordained, December 1st, 2019
Now I am serving the Lord and His people in the Arabic Alliance Church. I pray to be faithful in his calling and His ministry in my life.
Throughout 10 years my life kept changing, for the best. I experience God’s power and His presence, in my life and my family’s life. I learned a lot and I came to understand something great: that God does not take anything from you unless He wants to give you the best.
My family and I lost a lot even here in Canada, but every time we lose something and get sad about it, God always blesses us with something better. Even better than we had.
This is my story with Jesus in an abbreviation. Every day, I experience His hand over us. His power and love.
The story of knowing Jesus will never stop until the day I will be with Him. At that time, I will experience the greatest joy of sitting with Him every day all the time.

Finally, I want to encourage all of you and say, if you believe that God is your Father, trust.
No matter what happened from the circumstances, no matter how dark it is around you. Or no matter how long is your night,
trust God that He can make light from darkness and can light your life with blessings.

The last thing, remember what God taught me, which is, God equips the chosen one to complete His work but does not choose the equipped one.
And for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life

Campus crossed, Damascus, Syria
2011-2014, leader high school ministry

Alliance Church, Damascus, Syria
2015-2018, leader high school ministry and youth ministry

my previous pastor back home was very passionate in dealing with the congregation, which was a good example to follow.

Finding out that my first coach, after receiving Christ as my Savior, had fallen into a sexual sin shocked me. which led me to be more careful and caution and not to tolerate with sin.

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. Training leaders to lead the church

4. reaching out to all Arabic community in my city

5. Finishing my Theological studies