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

Thank you Tim Wall 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):

56%

53%

50%

43%

12%

65%

40%

59%

65%

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:
Discerning right from wrong by praying and seeking the best path forward as well as my experience in analyzing environmental factors and actors help provide the intuitive courses of action.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I’ve taught engineers and military professionals in numerous subjects, multiple age groups, ranks, experience levels, and in different settings to include spontaneous lessons and classes prepared by someone else.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I serve in the military, which has a level of service that generally goes along with church service. I’ve ushered at a previous church.

[H]eart

1. I enjoy playing soccer with a good group of people in order to exercise and enjoy some sportsmanship.

2. I find spending time working in my yard (only in the winter time – Tucson summers are brutal) brings me joy. I enjoy planning and designing the landscape, building structures (or hiring contractors to do so), and choosing the right things for it.

3. I like stretching my legs in nature and hiking up in Madera with the family. We turn it into nature lessons and learn things together.

Teenagers, young adults, middle aged adults.

Leadership changes, kids’ ministry (because my kids attend it), and Next Step (because I filled out a giant questionnaire and this survey)

Alcoholism
Financial stewardship
Policy/politics

[A]bilities

Software engineer & Intelligence officer

Radio station engineer, radio station DJ, food preparation, grocery bagger, stocker, dishwasher

quick study, able to break complex topics into simple forms of communication, and highly technical, advance mathematics / physics, strong familiarity with computers and electronics, A/V background, strong communicator, tactical questioning and ability to read people, security minded

anti-terrorism, force protection, subversion, sabotage, espionage, cyber awareness, military decision making process (all 7 steps), intelligence preparation of the battle space, joint intelligence, classification and portion marking, missile testing, software integration, software automation tools in a lab, mentoring others, loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage, financial stewardship, physical fitness (army style),

My wife.

[P]ersonality

Reserved

Low Risk

Challenger

Project Driven

Leader

Solo

Routine

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 watched a church play at 17 years old that made me realize that hell was real and I didn’t want to go there.

I was an Usher at The Journey, First Evangelical Free, on River and Swan in Tucson, AZ. I served for a year before we came to Grace.

I was baptized at 43 in the Jordan River on my last deployment. I realized that the reason I didn’t get baptized was due to my own hard headed and foolishness for being too old to change. I watched a senior officer give the church his testimony for baptismal when he was far older than I was and it was nearly the same. I had the realization that my heart was hardened and watching this officer give over his pride for God made me feel that I could do it too.

The birth of my first child greatly impacted me to understand that God could bless me with such a gift. We named her Gwyneth Abigail, which means “blessed father’s love.”

Getting married had such a profound meaning in my life. Alyssa is my peace when I’m upset. She my home, when I’m away. She’s the person I run to when I’m uncertain and need reassurance. I’m very thankful that God gave me her as a gift, and I tell her often. She’s been such a major influence in my life because of her background, her upbringing, her strong character – that she makes me want to be a better man so I can live up to the vision she has for me.

I deployed to Baghdad in 2004, to Kandahar in 2009, and to Jordan in 2018. Every deployment comes with its challenges. In Baghdad, I honestly didn’t know if I was going to come home and as a newlywed, I spent the first year and half away from my bride. In Kandahar, I worked directly with the Afghan army regularly and had fears that they would turn on me. In Jordan, I dealt with a toxic leader that created a harsh work environment. These challenges allow me to relate to veterans extremely easily.

My father was an alcoholic. He drank himself into a coma when I was a junior in college and it created a rift between us for many years. I’m really sensitive to my own alcoholic consumption because of this and it helps me talk with people to understand the effects with kids and young adults.

I grew up in a military home where we started off with low income. My mother and father did things that allowed us to not realize that we were lower income though, so it helps me relate to that and changed my work ethic to push for financial freedom.

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. work in a think tank to improve general well-being for the population.

4. Create a security firm that performs security planning for churches around the world (working with embassies and local authorities)

5. Become a DJ for a christian rock radio station.