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

Thank you Latania Robinson 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:

56%

75%

84%

65%

87%

59%

56%

62%

59%

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:
God shows me mercy everyday so I try my best to show mercy to others

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
God gives me the right words to say at the right time and with power

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I don’t mind going in and out of different communities,and institutions, to share the word of God and my testimony.

[H]eart

1. I love to be in service

2. I love the word of God

3. I love being with my daughters and grandsons

I love to work with the broken heart, trauma victims, addicted, abandon, oppressed, poverty stricken. I like to work with adult women and men.

When people are left out in the church setting, when we start to look at leaders as they are God, All people should have something to do in church, it should not be big I’s and little U’s , everyone should be important not just the leaders, every one should have the opportunity to be in some type of ministry. Also when the church is not taken care of the community it concerns me.

Homelessness
Drug abuse/recovery
Alcoholism
Poverty/hunger
Abuse/violence
Policy/politics

[A]bilities

I’m a Social Worker, MSW

Re-entry Case manager, Program Counselor, Program Coordinator, Support Employment supervisor, Heath Educator, HIV counselor, Outreach Worker

The ability to build rapport with people, Counseling, Facilitating ,Teaching, awareness, resourceful

HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, job readiness, the stages of change, effective interventions.

Is the ability to listen, learn, teach, be a leader, serve, and share my testimony.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Team

50-50 Routine/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

I was taken to church as a young girl, I had so much stuff that had happen to me and I survived I had to believe in a power grater than myself and it was God, I could not survived those things if I did not have God. I lost both of my parents to AIDS, I grew up in a hold house with a mother who did drugs and people were in and out of my house, I never was touch by anyone but my mother gave me my 1st drink of cold duck wine. Mother moved everywhere we never had a stable home we even live in an a abandon home, I really did have much my mother spend everything on drugs. My mother never had a job I never saw her work anywhere. My mother died when I was 13 years old, she was just 32, I live on my own at age 13 and with a baby. I had two children by the age of 15. Both of my children died in the fire, 1 was 2 years old the other was 3 years old, I got burnt all over my body, I was in the hospital for 3mos, I did not get to attend my children funeral. I did not go to school much even before my mother died, I missed the fundamentals of grammar school, I never graduated out of 8th grade. I started using drugs at very young age to cope with life disappointments and lost of love ones, I had no direction I had people in my family but no one took me in and directed me on the right path. After my children died I began to use drugs heavy while I was pregnant with my daughter, I was introduce to an outpatient program that help me with my addiction and refer to a shelter for women and children that was operated by nuns. St. Joseph home, where I had a stable environment it was there where my spirit began to waken to the work of God in my life and how HE always was there for me. So many adversities has happen even after this and GOD always showed out in my life, I never knew a love like this before.

United Holy Church of America-Emmanuelle Pentecostal Church – Jersey City, NJ Sunday School Teacher for the youth. 2years

United Holy Church of America -Emmanuelle Pentecostal Church – Jersey City, NJ-Usher -5-7 years

United Holy Church of America-Guiding Star- Roselle, NJ
Vice President of Street Outreach Ministries
1 year

Don’t give up, no matter what if feels or looks like.

graduating from undergrad and graduate school expose me to information needed to navigate systems for myself and others.

The compassion and the love the nuns showed encouraged me to be more like them

My parents addiction and them dying from AIDs,

Me losing my 2 sons in the fire

Me living on my own @age 13 and being a teenage mom

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. Get out of debt and be financially responsible and give more

4. I do not want to be limited with my service work, I want to go anywhere I’m called to serve.

5. write a book but I am not a good writer I missed the fundmentals in grammar school