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

Thank you Reni Bumpas 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:

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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:

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:

[H]eart

1. Writing

2. Encouraging people

3. Connecting people and ideas

young women

people from broken homes

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Divorce

[A]bilities

Houseparent at Christian boarding school and Life Coach Coordinator, part-time novelist – hahaha!

Executive Director of Pregnancy Medical Clinic, bank teller, executive assistant, teacher, consultant/trainer, college advisor

writing, editing, MBTI® certified, Core and Couple Communication® trained, Love Thinks PICK® certified, cooking

MBTI®, Core Communication®, Love Thinks PICK®, “The Hats We Wear,” “Queens in the Making,” various Bible studies, speaking for PMCs

Cheerful communication

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

Low Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Team

Variety

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

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

[E]xperience

With my parents’ divorce when I was 8, my family and my life was torn apart. From that moment on, I knew all was not right in the world. Before then, I’d experienced brokenness and pain in little ways like skinned knees or stubbed toes, being left out by friends at recess, or even locked in a dark storage building. But all those hurts were short-lived, and were always followed by healing or light and restoration. My parents’ divorce only brought on more and more pain. Layers and layers, year after year. And as a child, I had no way of knowing how to process any of it, so I filtered it all through a lens that if I couldn’t find happiness — if there was no hope in the world–if there was no one who loved me, then ultimately, what was the point of living. I didn’t see one.

And so, as a freshman in college, at 17 years old, after dabbling in trying to be popular or trying to excel in journalism as the editor of our high school paper, dating a bunch of guys, and then playing around with the party scene, I finally decided that all my efforts to seek someone, anyone who would love me, were futile, and I may as well take my life. I was too miserable to live.

On the morning that I intended to kill myself, my roommate walked in the door of our dorm room to exchange books between classes and asked if I was okay. (I had decided to mourn before I died, so convinced that I was the only one who would really care enough that my life had ended.) I said no, and she walked back out, shutting the door behind her. A moment later, she opened the door again and said, “You may not want to hear this right now, but sometimes I talk to God about it, and it helps.” At that moment, I began crying out to God. And while I didn’t understand all the specifics of the Gospel at that moment, He’d planted seeds all my life from different times I’d been in various churches, and with no audible voice, I heard Him speak in my head that He loved me, and “Surrender your life to Me.” Again and again, that same message, and that He would take care of me, and that in Him, there is hope.

After maybe 5-10 more minutes of crying, I gave in to the Voice and gave my life completely, unreservedly to Him.

From that moment on, I had hope. Hope that He was there and that He loved me and that He had a purpose for my life, and that regardless of anything else or whether anyone else loved me or cared about me, He did, and I could trust Him.

That Sunday I went to church and walked down an aisle, and within a couple of months, I had my first study Bible, which I began reading and praying through and studying and memorizing and applying daily.

He surrounded me with other Christians to teach and disciple me, and I was like a baby eager to be fed the pure milk of God’s Word. Through those studies, I learned that the reason I’d always felt so empty was because God had created me to have a relationship with Him, but because He is holy and I am sinful, that was not possible. But that He had made a way through Jesus Christ by coming and living the perfect life I could never live and then suffering God’s righteous wrath in my place. The more I learned the more I trusted in Him and sought to obey.

My life has been characterized by ups and downs as a believer, but He is faithful. He has a firm grip on me. And I love Him because He first loved me, and He who began a good work in me will be faithful to complete it.

teaching Sunday School – Dyersburg, TN, First Presbyterian, 18 years, current to high school girls at French Camp Presbyterian, French Camp, MS

leading college, high school girls’ and womens’ Bible studies – Hinds Community College, Raymond, MS and First Presbyterian, Dekalb, MS – 4 years, various times in Dyersburg over 18 years

Executive Director of PMC, 8 years, Dyersburg, TN, Secretary of MS PresWIC

Being married to Wally Bumpas – the day in and day out of being loved by a man who loves me like Christ loves the church, and getting to sit under his preaching for 25 years

Being mom to Will, Elizabeth, Walker, and Ian

SO TOUGH to NARROW DOWN!!!! I’m thinking about the impact of people like Hal Farnsworth and RUF my senior year at State, Margie Newman and working at CRS in 1986-87, and my sister Niki and all the times I called and talked to her for advice…

Parents’ divorce

Emily’s bipolar disorder and eventual suicide

Walker’s addiction – struggle with abusing marijuana

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. Put together a ministry like FCA or expand FCA’s ministry, so that it included resources for addiction and families and counseling, etc., so that lives and families could be restored

4. Write and market the other fiction stories I have in my head.

5. Write and market non-fiction books that could inspire and help parents and moms.