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

Thank you Sandy Bumbalough 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):

78%

62%

53%

68%

56%

43%

50%

56%

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 am a very organized person and do well at bringing others in to serve along side me in ministry.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I believe I am a steward of both my time and money. There is no physical thing I desire and would be happy with fewer things so that I can give more to God.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Jesus is the only way to heaven and I want others to know that. In spite of circumstances, he is always there and is all we need.

[H]eart

1. Working with those who lack justice in our society. Those who have no voice such as children, elderly, poor, and refugees.

2. Being with my family and encouraging them in their faith.

3. Music, sewing, and reading where I can use those gifts along with others serving the Lord.

I work with all age groups but right now I am focused on refugees and elderly.

Intertwined, worship ministry, need for young couples group/class

Poverty/hunger
Spiritual laziness
Other – refugees

[A]bilities

Staff Accountant

Mostly accounting related; sales; office manager

Starting and running a food pantry; 45 years church pianist; volunteer recruitment and training.

Wrote an entire curriculum for K-5th grade Sunday School and children’s church that covered the Bible in two years.

Organization and a heart to go with it.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

50-50 Routine/Variety

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

Beaver- Organized. Beavers think that there is a right way to do everything and they want to do it exactly that way. Beaver personalities are very creative. They desire to solve everything. Desire to take their time and do it right. Beavers do not like sudden changes. They need reassurance.

Strength: High standards, order, respect
Weakness: Unrealistic expectations of self & others, too perfect.
Limitation: Seeing the optimistic side of things, expressing flexibility

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 had the privilege of being raised in a Christian home and became a Christian at almost 8 years old. I have loved Jesus since I was a child and that love has only grown deeper the older I am. Jesus is everything to me and has helped me through loneliness, sorrow, sickness, death, disappointment and failure. He also given me joy to face each day and provided strength to serve others in His name.

Music Ministry, Farragut Christian Church, 138 Admiral Road, Knoxville, TN 37934
45 years and current as pianist

Food Pantry, same church, 14 years and current; started and led food pantry ministry along with the help of my family group for 10 years.

Sower’s Sewing Ministry; same church; 7 years and current; co-lead working with and teaching people how to sew and make projects used throughout our community.

As a child we often had people in our home who were missionaries, poor, elderly, or college students. While we provided hospitality, we heard their stories and this helped me to see the needs of a wide variety of people and how simple acts of love can impact lives throughout the world.

Going back to college at 52 gave me an opportunity to have an internship with Compassion Coalition and be mentored by Grant Standefer. I worked with people who had the same heart as mine and had the resources to refer those with needs to. I learned that sometimes the best thing we can do is to take time to listen to someone’s story.

Most recently, I went on a mission trip to Belize to teach women and children to sew. I almost gave up sewing years ago because I had lost interest in it and didn’t have time. But I have been totally blown away as God has used this gift in a great capacity over the past seven years. I had always loved the story of Dorcas in the Bible, but never saw me in that light. God opened my eyes to consider that no gift is too small that he cannot do great things with it. I have been very humbled by this.

I tried to be very careful in selecting my husband as it was utmost important that he be a faithful, practicing, godly man. Somehow along the way, the person that I married who I thought was this man changed. I am now a spiritual widow who has a husband who still believes but is content to watch a church service on his I-pad. While this is painful, I pray for him and it helps me relate to other women in my circumstances.

My most hurtful experience in the church involved worship. For many years, I organized and recruited volunteers for instruments and choir. There came a point when a worship minister was hired and changes came. I was willing to work with all the ministers we had but it became very difficult when a person was hired who could not read music and could not relate to me. Others on the team did not understand the issue and I was blamed for the “problems.” I stepped away from worship team for awhile and used my musical gifts in other ways. I learned lessons in forgiveness and love and to go to the person(s) who hurt you and discuss the issue.

I have had conflict in ministry with some Christians who think we should not be helping Muslims or feeding the poor. I have been able to use scriptures such as Matt. 25 which states we are to feed the hungry and the difference between the sheep and the goats is what the sheep did. Matt. 28, the Great Commission, does not exclude any people group or religion that we are command to go to all. Sometimes ministry involves conflict which must be handles in love, firmly, and with scriptures.

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. Establish a building complex for elderly people who can live on their own but need purpose and called on

4. Start a Spiritual Widows small group

5. Manage Intertwined