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

Thank you Sarah Gonska 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:

Administration

31%

Evangelism

56%

Exhortation/Encouragement

53%

Giving

90%

Mercy Showing

43%

Prophecy

43%

Pastoring/Shepherding

56%

Serving

65%

Teaching

59%

To see descriptions on the Spiritual Gifts and how you can use them to further Christ’s Kingdom on earth, visit this link.

#1 Gift, Giving (90%)

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have always enjoyed giving my time and talents to help benefit others and build them up. I also know that everything I have truly isn’t mine to keep but a blessing from God. Tithing is very important to me.

#2 Gift, Serving (65%)

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Making an environment or experience better for someone else brings me a lot of joy. I love using my energetic, outgoing personality to make others feel welcome and loved.

#3 Gift, Teaching (59%)

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Any encouragement I can give someone else that pushes them away from darkness and closer to God makes me happy and is very satisfying. I like to share things/experiences/lessons I have been through and apply them to a current struggle or issue someone else is going through to help redirect their thoughts.

[H]eart

Three things I love to do that bring joy and fulfillment in my life:

1. Spend time with my family. No matter what the occasion, location, cramped space, or attire, I love doing life with them.

2. Exploring and doing anything active with my fiancé , especially traveling, invigorates my mind. I love to experience other cultures and learn more about what they know.

3. Nurturing children, guiding, instructing and directly impacting their future gives me a lot of joy.

Who I love to work with most, and the age or type of people:

Shoot, it depends but the top 3 would be friends around my age(early to late 20s), children 3-8 and teenage girls between 12-17

Church issues, ministries, or possible needs that excite or concern me the most:

Community Outreach, women ministry, children ministry. Help with volunteering fixing things or setting up new things. I love to interact with people and bring a smile to their face.

*Mark the Top 3 from the list, that Trigger a Passion in You

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Marriage/family issues
Health/fitness

[A]bilities

My current vocation:

General Accounting Coordinator- working in AP
Personal Nanny

Other jobs I have experience in:

Administrative work, food prep, cleaning, organizing, getting others active.

Special talents/skills that I have:

Kind, tender-hearted, typing, bringing life to other peoples’ days, good listener, motivator, encourager, active.

I have taught a class or seminar on:

Dancing back in high school

I feel my most valuable personal asset is:

showing kindness/giving encouragement to others who are in need of encouragement or kindness.

[P]ersonality

The personality traits that best fit me are:

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Team

50-50 Routine/Variety

1. 2 Likes Control	4 Enthusiastic	3 Sensitive	1 Reserved
2. 2 Firm	4 Energetic	1 Non-Demanding	3 Practical
3. 1 Likes Challenge	4 Promoter	3 Enjoys Routine	2 Factual
4. 1 Problem Solver	3 Mixes Easily	4 Relational	2 Perfectionistic
5. 2 Bold	4 Fun-Loving	4 Thoughtful	3 Detailed
6. 4 Goal Driven	3 Optimistic	1 Patient	2 Inquisitive
7. 4 Strong Willed	3 Motivator	3 Good Listener	2 Accurate
8. 3 Takes Charge	1 Very Verbal	4 Loyal	2 Predictable
9. 4 Determined	1 Popular	2 Dislikes Change	3 Orderly
10. 3 Competitive	2 Group Oriented	2 Sympathetic	4 Analytical
11. 2 Purposeful	1 Inspirational	4 Nurturing	3 Precise
12. 1 Action Oriented	2 Likes Change	4 Peace Maker	3 Scheduled
29 Total	32 Total	35 Total	30 Total

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

My brief testimony of how I became a Christian

Brought up in the church and accepted Jesus as my Savior as a kid. Waivered a little from my faith growing up but in the past 5 years have drawn close to Christ and to other believers.

Ministry Experience (Where I have served in the past, if applicable, including ChurchName, City/State, Position, Years Involved):

Community of Hope – set up with events, every now and then.

Journey Church – kids ministry-young – 3+ years, events, greeting occasionally.

Missions Trip- Guatemala, 1 week, working with orphans and helping building/restore their buildings.

List 3 Positive experiences from the past that made a big impact on who you are today:

Meeting Marlon and maturing with him and having him in my life despite all the messy situations I have been in.

Traveling frequently(road trips/flying), having a lot of exposure to other places outside of Ohio.

Watching my grandparents interact and always be involved with family.

List 3 Negative Experiences from your past that have helped to Shape me, but also have given you great compassion for others going through similar circumstances:

My parents divorce when I was young and the struggle of back and forth living and new family members.

Unfaithful relationships – boyfriends and friends. Putting my hope or self esteem in the success or feedback from those relationships.

Feeling pushed out from my relationship with my dad yet guilty from my step mom. Falling away from a mother/daughter relationship with my mom and losing the closeness I had with my brother.

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. Eliminating human tracking

4. Freely allowing clean drinking water world-wide

5. Being able to minister to everyone I encounter without hesitation.