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

Thank you Ruthie Swart 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%

46%

62%

28%

62%

50%

50%

18%

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:
I usually enjoy organizing and being the one in charge of activities that I care about. I like to be the one directing people and kind of the head overseer who gets to make the decisions. I also enjoy planning and the little administrative tasks like list creating and assigning people to tasks and being organized.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I *constantly* find myself wanting to encourage and connect with people who I see are in need of it. If there is someone on the outside of the group or alone, I will go sit and talk with them and hopefully make them feel seen and loved. I didn’t have that when I was in elementary school and I hated the loneliness and I never want anyone else to experience that. Also, reaching out and encouraging people doesn’t feel scary at all, I actually find sooo much joy in it and I can usually be confident enough to approach them and lead the conversation.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
My heart literally breaks so very often whenever I hear of hurt and pain and death. I think it affects me more than I would like it to. What I mean by this is that I can’t even watch violent or gorey movies because when a character dies, my heart is sad for them and their lost life and how quickly all of their experiences and heartache and personality was just extinguished. It is very difficult for me to watch. My heart also breaks for aborted children and any people suffering around the world and so it motivates me to act to save them. For the aborted children, I raise money and advocate, and for the others, I want to study ministry and missions so that I can serve them in the future.

[H]eart

1. I love serving my friends and doing things to make them happy. I like to write them letters that encourage them, tell them the things I love about them, and give fits to them. Basically I love showing my love to my friends and making them feel happy and appreciated and valued.

2. I love to serve people in need. Whether that be at PRM or NCO or any other ministry, I feel so fulfilled to be serving others and talking to them and praying for them and being a voice of encouragement in their lives.

3. I love being outside!!! Whether it is hiking or walking or running or doing anything outside, it brings me immense joy. Mostly being out in nature and being surrounded by beauty, it makes my heart so full of awe and appreciation for God and his creation. I can’t help but dance around and sing when I’m alone in the woods 🙂

My favorite type of people to work with are ambitious and hardworking people who have ideas and visions and excitement to lead and excel at what they are doing. But also, and this is really important to me, who respect and value my opinion and contributions and make me feel very appreciated and like a very valued member of the team. I HATE feeling unappreciated, it completely saps my energy and motivation to excel. As for the age, I like it when they are around my age or close to it so that I can best relate with them and their energy. I also like it when the people are not too overpowering, because I DO like to be in charge or at least feel like I have some influence, and I don’t like being trampled by someone who is too overpowering.

Youth group might be number 1. I am currently a leader at my youth group and although it can be very frustrating and challenging to work with the leadership, I find lots of excitement in leading and serving the high schoolers and middle schoolers at my church. I see a lot of needs for people to feel seen and valued and that is something I have been trying really hard to meet. I do my best to talk to people who are not always talked to and help them realize that I care about them. I also like doing vbs and sunday school with little kids. They are so much fun to play with and talk to and teach!

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Spiritual laziness
Educational
At-risk children
Other – outsiders of the group who need a friend

[A]bilities

I am a waitress

Babysitting, customer service

I have no idea…
-I would say I am decent at public speaking and having confidence to do that in front of people I know
-I am also decently good at getting people involved in activities/ministries
-I am good at leading/heading up things and being the one to direct and oversee the process and make sure it goes well and has a successful outcome

I taught a breakout session at my church’s apologetics conference in Nov.2020 about Gen Z utilizing their unique skills and making a substantial difference in the world
And then I’ve done a bunch of small teachings/sharing about a variety of topics at my youth group and a little at school

I think maybe my friendliness paired with my leadership skills? I can get people involved by being friendly and genuine and then help organize and take charge when something needs to be done.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

High Risk

Challenger

Project Driven

Leader

Team

50-50 Routine/Variety

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

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

I was about 4 years old when I became a Christian, and it was after being continually mean to my siblings. I got in trouble yet again and started crying and my dad told me that Jesus could change my heart. I accepted him that day.

I serve/have served at my church (Southwest Hills Baptist Church) helping in the children’s sunday school classes, teaching at high school sunday school, leading at my youth group, teaching at the apologetics conference, etc. (6+ years)

I have served at various ministries over the years sorting clothes, handing out food, basically doing whatever they needed from me. Some of those places include Portland Rescue Mission, Shepherd’s Door, Northwest Children’s Outreach, First Image/PRC, etc. (and all of the places we visited and served at during IMPACT)

I went on a week long service/mission trip to Cabo San Lucas Mexico in march 2019 and partnered with Mexican Medical to host health fairs and hang out with the kids there.

My sister Marianne and I becoming close friends and hanging out and talking all the time. She has been a wonderful comfort and confidant through all of my rough patches and she helps me to think logically through my heated emotions.

Going to Mexico on the service/mission trip helped to open my eyes to the idea of being a missionary, and maybe of being fluent in Spanish so that I could serve there.

When I was in 8th grade, a senior girl reached out to me and treated me like an equal and we would go out for bubble tea dates and she made me feel cared for and loved in a time when I really needed it. Because of her example I have taken it upon myself to invest in middle schoolers and underclassmen the way she invested in me, because I understand the impact it can have.

All throughout the first few years of elementary school I was completely friendless and only tagged along with my older sister and her friends, but they didn’t really want me there. That was a lonely time that I hardly remember well, but I do remember the feeling of loneliness and never wanting to feel that again. This has caused me to be extra friendly and always surround myself with friends and to try and make sure no one else is feeling the loneliness I felt

When I was 4 years old we fostered or did respite for another 4 year old girl named Laylee. She was very mean to me and would stay up at night telling me that nobody loved me and that she wouldn’t share with me and just fill my head with these thoughts. It got to the point where she was making me shy and quiet and my parents noticed and had to send her back to her other home. Although I don’t distinctly remember any of that, I can still see the impact of what she said affecting my thought life today and it is a constant battle to fight against those lies of worthlessness.

At the beginning of freshman year I had just switched to a new school and felt pretty nervous and out of place and lonely because I didn’t know anyone. At the same time, I was beginning to feel more and more self-conscious in my dance classes about being overweight and not as good as the other girls. These factors plus one of my best friends abandoning me the year before all came together and I began to get suicidal. I only saw my stress and shortcomings and I thought it would be easier to kill myself so that I wouldn’t have to feel the pain of it all anymore. Thankfully my mom caught me and snapped me out of it and I was able to tell some friends about it and they all cried and prayed with me and suddenly it was no longer just me in the darkness alone, I had friends and my mom who were beside me. Although I am not currently suicidal and I overcame that, I do have to constantly battle the feelings of worthlessness and the desire to end it all because I don’t have the strength to handle life anymore.

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. I would be a full-time missionary. Living with the people, serving them every single day and relying on God 10000% to give me the strength to excel each day.

4. I would marry a very godly young man and we would be missionaries serving the Lord together and eventually with a little family of our own.

5. I would start a ministry here in the states that actively served people and shared the gospel.