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

Thank you Ronnay Voris 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):

68%

100%

84%

90%

90%

90%

90%

71%

96%

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:
It is how God has used me in various places, settings, and countries

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have been an instructor at teen Mission Bible school for many years.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
God has provided in ways that have allowed us to give above and beyond a “tithe.”

[H]eart

1. Foreign missions

2. Preaching

3. Teaching

Just about anyone

A focus on “numbers” is often given priority over the spiritual growth of the people.

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Poverty/hunger
Abuse/violence
Educational

[A]bilities

Customer service associate at Lowe’s

Garbage man, Custodian, Milkman, Brazer assembler, Shipping/receiving clerk, Xerox Technical rep, Sonar technician (USNavy), Planer operator (Georgia Pacific), Carpenter/ plumber/electrician, Building contractor (California), Pastor, missionary (Teen Missions International, WEGO), Associate pastor, handyman.

Most aspects of construction/repair of dwellings (some commercial experience), teaching, preaching, mission teams organizing & setup.

TMI Team Leaders’ Training Seminar, Church History I & II, Prophecy I & II (Daniel, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Revelation, Matthew, J. Dwight Pentecost’s book “Things to Come,” etc.), Homiletics

Christ in my life

[P]ersonality

Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

Challenger

Project Driven

Leader

Solo

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

Raised in a very legalistic cult, at 18 gave up on God because I realized there was no way I could keep all His laws; if I was going to hell anyway, I might as well do it my way. At 28, I was ill, housebound, had read everything in the house, turned back to the Bible. I had never read the Gospel of John (the cult had very strict reading schedules) and discovered that Christ had provided a way, if I would receive Him, so I could spend eternity with Him! With GREAT joy, I accepted His authority over every aspect of my life. He is my Lord and Savior.

Agape Bible Church: Pastor, Sunday school teacher, youth leader, hospital visitation 1982-92. Teen Missions Int.: Team leader 1992-2000, Team Leader Training Seminar instructor 19 94-2000, Bible school instructor 2004(?)- 2018. Associate pastor-facilities, benevolence, and missions 2000-2007, WEGO (Worldwide Evangelical Gospel Outreach) missionary- Maintenance and repair of facilities (US, Nicaragua, Mongolia).

Leaving the pastorate and my contracting business in California to serve with Teen Missions in Florida

Leaving Teen Missions to serve a local church as associate pastor

Leaving the pastorate, again, to serve with WEGO

Depressed and attempted suicide before I became a Christian, 1970.

Our son came down with spinal meningitis in 1973, very difficult to watch your son on the verge of death with nothing you can do about it.

I worked with a Mongolian contractor to build an orphanage in Mongolia, working through a translator, only to discover that the translator was a close relative of the contractor and the two had cost the ministry thousands of dollars.

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. to pastor a small church of 25 to 100 people

4. to serve full time overseas

5. to teach again