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

Thank you Sandra Younge 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%

59%

71%

81%

56%

40%

59%

87%

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:
comes natural, don’t think twice about helping others. I believe to lead is to serve. others respond in appreciation

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
better to give than receive, I enjoy sharing what I have, have a sense of accomplishment of helping others who are in need, always get more in return

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
the way I communicate with others, feel very comfortable in this role, others gain so much by it, helps other along in their journey in life.

[H]eart

1. spending time with my son, trying to instill wisdom, nurturing , loving him, showing the love of God

2. animals, especially rescue dogs, that are helpless and have an urgent to be taken care of.

3. being CREAT

being creative, using my imagination to create, make things out of many different types of mediums, explore and push my imagination to new areas

women, older teen to mid 50’s, those who are hurting, need comfort and direction, passion to help prevent women from going through life experiences that I have

women particularly working moms, single moms with difficult children, with depression emotional issues or addictions, very specific group

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Other – finding out why people do what they do and why, what in their past brought them to present decisions, or behaviours

[A]bilities

registered nurse

always in some type of medical position or serving

ability to relate to others on many different levels, meet then where they are at, communication skills

was an arts and crafts leader for a womens group, lead women bible study for MOPS group

ability to listen to others, relatability to others

[P]ersonality

People Driven

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

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

accepted Christ at a church camp when I was 9 years old, in my cabin, sitting on bunk bed praying with a counsellor

Sunshine MOPS, steering committee, 3 years, crafts, bible study, speaking

church secretary for a summer ,
helped with an art group at a celebrate recovery group

treasurer for a chapter of a youth organization

went to a lay leadership bible college , one year programme. learned positive marriage , communication techniques, decide future goals

ability to maintain long term relationship

honestly many more negative situation has impacted my life than positive sad but true

being abandoned and neglected by my mother, father, brothers and ex husband

battling severe depression for 30 years,

have had several crisis situational events in my life that I had no control over but definitely had a HUGE impact on my life. understand a wide variety of people and their most hurtful or difficult life experiences

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. start organization geared to women with emotioal trauma in their lives, becoming the next Joyce Meyer

4. live on a farm and take in recue animals

5. thirst for knowledge of learning as much as I can about people, travel the world to gain experience and knowledge to relate to others