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

Thank you Shonda Powers 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):

90%

37%

62%

12%

28%

18%

28%

87%

43%

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’m a highly organized person who loves to plan. This also shows in the current career field I am in (Director of Admissions).

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I like to help and serve others. Specifically those I know that I could provide helpful life support and knowledge. This also shows in the current career field I am in (professor).

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I use the book The 5 Love Languages in one of the classes I teach. One of my love languages is Words of Encouragement, so this is not surprising on this survey.

[H]eart

1. Being around friends and family just talking and hanging out. When I had my office to my house for our Christmas Party, that brought me so much joy to fill my house with laughter.

2. Organizing things: my house, other people’s houses, offices, any closet. It brings me peace knowing something went from chaos to organized.

3. Playing with my kids. Seeing them learn and grow.

College students. I’m in my 5 year teaching college and that age group is fun because they’re adults but they are still figuring out who they are.

Care of our pastors and their families. Being a preacher’s kid, I’ve seen some dark things that can happen inside and outside the church to families in full-time ministry.

Drug abuse/recovery
Parenting
Health/fitness

[A]bilities

Director of Graduate and Online Admissions at University of the Cumberlands
Adjunct Professor in the Health, Exercise & Sports Science Department

Organization skills. knit/crochet/crafts

Professional as a professor: Nutrition, Substance Abuse, Community & Environmental Health, Relationships & Healthy Behaviors

Listen and be able to relate to others.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

Project Driven

Leader

Routine

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

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

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

Being a preacher’s kid I grew up in church and knew Jesus in my head. I had someone tell me “just because your dad is a preacher doesn’t mean you will go to heaven just like a doctor’s kid can’t perform surgery.” That got me really thinking about things and I asked Jesus into my heart.

Main Street Baptist Church; 2007 – 2015 Youth Group (How I met my husband because he was helping with the youth, too.)

My parents are both Christians and still happily married (most days) after 42 years.

Moving 6 hours away to go to college at the age of 17.

Getting married and having children.

My dad was forced into resignation from the church he was preaching at because there was a family that wanted to run things their way. This was right around the time I became a Christian.

I became a Christian at age 9. I was baptized 3 days before my 18th birthday. I was in and out of LOTS of different churches between the age of 9 and 17.

My husband and I faced fertility struggles for about two years prior to getting pregnant with our son through medical assistance. Those two years were probably the hardest emotionally for us. Our daughter was a surprise with no fertility issues.

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. Adopt a sibling group

4. Help my husband with his dream of a youth camp

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