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

Thank you Laurie Hinckley 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:

87%

68%

68%

62%

62%

78%

75%

68%

100%

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 enjoy simplifying truths so others can easily understand.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I like organization and see things in an orderly progression.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love praying for people and asking God to Reveale to others scriptures & direction that is truth & brings healing & understanding.

[H]eart

1. I find deep fulfillment when I am able to share my stories that relate to someone else’s situation to bring hope & empower faith in their life.

2. I love sharing deep truths from the word so others understand how they apply to their particular situation.

3. I love training and empowering others for ministry!

My heart cries for kids who are neglected, abandoned, or hurting; it cries for single parents, moms especially; for kids with special needs; and helping parents understand their child & his or her needs.

Small group ministry, Children’s ministry, ministry to Widow’s (especially young widows), hospital visitation, creating church events that build fellowship & Family among within the body

Homelessness
Parenting
Abuse/violence
At-risk children
Disabilities

[A]bilities

Preschool Teacher

Children’ Pastor, Buyer for church supplies, Executive Sales Manager, Trade Sales Account Manager, Kindergarten Teacher, Adnimistrative Support, author of chilren’s Resources books for Children’s Ministry, entrepreneur of SalsaONEders, planning fun church events, supporting church plants, creating curriculum, teaching others to create engaging curriculum for kids, creating & implementing teacher training workshops,

Teaching, management, cooking, helping people feel comfortable & welcome.

Lots of workshops relating to teaching children, spoken in woman’s ministry workshops,

Encouraging others, applying the Word to life situations

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

Team

Variety

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

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

I grew up in a Christian home, realized my need for salvation when I was in 5th grade and accepted Jesus forgiveness over me then he became Lord of my Life.

Family Life Community Church, Federal Way, WA. 11/2014-2016
Volunteer for Children’s Ministry, Associate Director for VBS,

Children’s Pastor (ordained) – Arena Christian CenterAssenblies of God Church, Sacramento, CA. 1/2004 – 11/2005
Accountable to the Senior Pastor for vision casting, developing children’s programming, curriculum implementation, teaching Bible truths, training volunteers, developing the Children’s Ministry budget, and fundraising to support that budget.

Children’s Director – Generation Foursquare Church, San Jose, CA 5/1990 – 9/1995
Accountable to Senior Pastor for the administration and development of Children’s Ministries; responsible for yearly budget; training of over 90 volunteers yearly; implemented church vision; developed policy/procedures, and teacher training manual that included job descriptions, age-level skills, classroom discipline, and helps for children with special needs; coordinated fundraisers, children’s Christmas and Easter musicals, family outreach events, and summer camps; worked closely with architect during the building of children’s classrooms; experienced successful growth from 40 children to over 160 children in less than three-years; coordinated two Bay Area-wide teacher training workshops. Highly involved in the Santa Clara Valley Children’s Ministry Network; planning community outreaches for children, and sponsoring annual Children Ministry Appreciation Brunches for volunteers throughout Silicon Valley

Marrying my first husband. He taught me what God’s Love was about. He had an immense heart for God & it overflowed to everyone who met him.

Pastor Al Soto, friend, Pastor, boss, mentor. He lives a life that empowers people closer to God for the purpose of releasing them into ministry. He taught me so much, as a children’s Pastor how to deal with the challenges in ministry.

Working in the Christian Publishing & being a Buyer for a large Christian chain store, I met so many big name people from many different denominations. I gained a world view of the church as a whole that was amazing. Hearing about & seeing what God is doing in so many places & types of ministries around the world. I got a glimpse of global ministry.

My first husband going home to be with the Lord too soon. We had been married just short of 25 years. I resigned from pastoring and had to consentrate on being head of the house & raising a son with disabilities all by myself. My heart goes out to kids & parents of kids with disabilities (most are single moms). My heart goes out to widows & single moms.

I’ve experienced abandonment from my mom who is spiritually off. Claims to be God’s prophet (along story). I’ve learned patience, God’s love & forgiveness…

Being married to a man who graduated from Bible College who had very little Christan character or fruit in his life & yet couldn’t understand why no one would let him preach. I never realized how subtle spiritual abuse was until leaving a destructive marriage after 5 years. I’m learning how to forgive people who don’t deserve to be forgiven for the pain & suffering they cause others & refuse to accept responsibility for their behavior. I’m in the process of learning how to live a transformed life of grace & forgiveness. My heart goes out for woman who are suffering in abusive relationships of every kind.

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. Pastoring hurting woman. Showing them how God can bring healing into their life.

4. Pastoring full-time & being able to support myself & my family.

5. I am loving being back in school & discovering the deep things of God. I have always wanted to work at a college as a woman’s Dean. Maybe I could be a professor & teach Bible to people beginning their ministry journey.