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

Thank you Samantha Barnaby 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:

68%

31%

25%

56%

25%

28%

18%

93%

50%

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 helping, I love people. I feel it is easy and my purpose to use those loves to serve others as God has served us.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love to see the finished product of processes, be able to feed my desire for control and use it to help and serve others.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I don’t have much money, but what I do have I love to give. I don’t hold fast to anything I own knowing that anything I have is a gift from God to be shared with others. I love hosting my home, giving meals even if it were the last bit of food in my fridge, and any items I have I love to give if knowing that it will help someone else

[H]eart

1. I love connecting with people. I love sharing openly with what God has done in my life and what I’m learning in my bible study and I desire that openness and honesty for other believers.

2. I love administration. I love spreadsheets and policies and procedures and filing and organizing.

3. I love to help! I love sharing my thoughts and opinions if it means being able to help a person, or ministry

I have come to realize recently that I love working with Women mostly…any women of any age. I have a heart for them and have noticed many different women of different ages that I have built relationships with.

Womens ministry, administration.

Marriage/family issues
Parenting

[A]bilities

Humane Resources, Stay at home Mom, Help in Womens Ministry, Volunteer for nursery, Treasurer at Childrens School,

Administrator for Church Plant/Pastor in Halifax (PAXnorth), Human Resources, Training, Manager

Administration, Filing, Organizing, Spreadsheets, Relational

Taught training classes on new job hires, and classes on Software Databases such as First Nations Post Secondary.

Adminsitration and Relational

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

Low Risk

Peace Maker

Project Driven

Follower

Team

Routine

Your Primary was ‘The Lion’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Retriever’, and here are the descriptions of your Personalities, and how they can be used for God

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

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 at a family reunion with my ex common law partner (who is now my husband who was saved the same night) when a nephew (only Christian) in the family shared what the bible said about Jesus when I expressed my issues with the bible, the church and religion;

Administrator for Church Plant/Pastor – PAXnorth Church, Halifax,NS, 2yrs.

Volunteer in nursery – Summerside Community Church – 3yrs

Womens Ministry Leadership Team – 1yr

Marriage and my husbands family

4 Children

Moving from a career women to stay at home mom

Poor – Grew up with my family needing the food bank, and charity from local churches and community groups to get Christmas presents and the basics in life

Bullying – Was bullied badly in school, some for my looks and some for my class status – being poor-

Raised by Single Mom (Divorced Twice) & Rejected by biological Father and Accepted and loved by Step Father. Shaped how I see loving others regardless of what they are born into, shaped my desire for strong and healthy marriages

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. Create events to faciliatate Womens growth in knowing Christ more

4. Serve as a full time administrative role with a church

5. Take me and my family on a missionary trip