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

Thank you Irene Comtois 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):

53%

68%

75%

68%

43%

50%

78%

75%

75%

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:
I love teaching women and see how excited they get when they get a point or just wallowing in His love.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love encouraging others and spurring others in love.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love helping out when I physically can.

[H]eart

1. I love church & being social

2. I love Bible studies and teaching.

3. I love singing and praising God with congregation.

Women, children.

I believe all subjects exciting me or concern me.

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Marriage/family issues
Abuse/violence

[A]bilities

Retired

Office, Bible studies, worked with babies and toddlers, and Middle school

I guess it’s shepherding, exhorting or encouraging people & love serving when I can spiritually.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

Peace Maker

People Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

50-50 Routine/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

I’d always thought that something was missing from the churches I went to as a child. It wasn’t until I was down and with marriage, my life, and wasn’t good for anything…God got a hold of me one night and led me to a relationship with Jesus. What was even funnier, (God had a sense of humor), the woman who helped me see Jesus (didn’t really know her), but her last name was Comtois and was no relation in my husband’s family. It was a beautiful experience.

Last church was Calvary in Arcadia, Fl. I was a lady’s Bible study leader, I was a counter of the money each week.; was on the Women’s Ministry team. When I lived up north, I was a Bible teacher and was involved in prayer ministry. First church I really grew in was Bible Fellowship in Quinebaug, CT. Was a VBS director, Bible study teacher for women as well as children.

One positive experience was when God used me as an instrument to guide my goddaughter to Christ. That was awesome. I knew when she died, she knew Jesus

Being a VBS director…didn’t want to do it; I was afraid I wouldn’t do a good job, but God helped me through it and even enjoyed it some…

My pastors always told me to always be a role model for my children. And I tried, for the most part.

One negative experience was when I was attending a church that had no pastor, just elders. Well, not a good thing not to have a pastor, the elders would bicker and fight and had a couple of splits. Was not good for my children. Not from any of the churches I shared in the question above. But I have a passion for others that don’t know God’s will and take other people’s word without verifying through God’s Word.

The second one was when I was first saved, I went to a church where people were jealous of others…the priest told me I wouldn’t grow in my faith there because of the unsettledness of the congregation. He couldn’t protect me because he was leaving to guide another church.

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. Owning a Christian coffee shop and bookstore where believers would be able to study, fellowship with others and help them in their walk with God!

4. My family to know Jesus.

5. Train up my great grandchildren up in Christ.