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

Thank you Cheryl Morgan 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:

81%

68%

78%

62%

62%

62%

75%

71%

68%

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 organized and people look to me to get things together and make sure that they are executed properly. I am also good at equipping people to be successful at their own tasks.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I seek to tell people what they are doing correctly and celebrate even the smallest of victories. I want them to know that I always see something good in them.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
This is pretty much what I do in my job. It is more about just teaching the subject, but getting them to really listen and dig into their own lives and maybe change that behavior that is leading them down the wrong path. It is about boundaries with love.

[H]eart

1. I love being the best daughter/wife/mom/friend that I can be by serving those in my life.

2. I love to serve in the music ministry.

3. I love to guide people as they achieve what they did not think was possible.

I love to work with middle school and high school students.

Love music ministry and youth ministry. Not terribly excited by anything that has to do with numbers, and technology hates me.

Parenting
Educational
At-risk children

[A]bilities

Teaching/Coaching/Doer of stuff

Marketing, shipping, office work

music, the ability to translate teenage speak, random knowledge of 80’s music, organization

Writing/critical thinking; I regularly teach English, and have taught psychology, study skills, and theater

organization

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

People Driven

Leader

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 fortunate to be raised in a Christian home, and I know everyone says that. Mine was far from perfect. The one constant was the one gift that I felt I had, and that was the music. It is through the music that I really found Jesus and understood how that gift glorified Him. Jesus was my constant; and He had given me that gift to draw me to Him.

I have pretty much served in music ministry in almost every church I have been in: St Helen’s in Pearland, Holy Cross in Nederland, Epiphany in Pearland, Mt Olive in Houston, and Redeemer in Friendswood

I served in youth ministry at St. John’s in Beaumont, and Holy Cross in Nederland

My 10th grade English teacher reading the Bible to me. Seriously, I was raised Catholic, so Bibles were not often seen.

My grandmother who taught me that love was unconditional.

Meeting my husband, who loved me for who I was, and not who I was expected to be.

Growing up in a family who went through several periods of difficulties. It made it very clear to me how important being positive and encouraging is, and how important it is to communicate clearly.

Being told that I was personally not good enough, or what I had to serve the Lord was not good enough. The first is still a struggle, and the second help me to lose religion and really find faith.

Having periods in my live where the only consistency was the inconsistency of it all. Yeah, that motivates you to try and be a solid as a rock for those around you.

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. to love and serve people where they are

4. to serve in music ministry

5. to be a constant for people in a world of constant change