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

Thank you Sandra McDaniel 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:

59%

46%

56%

53%

53%

46%

37%

56%

46%

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 coordinating and working with small groups of people to work towards commonly shared interests and goals. In areas where I have expertise, experience and/or am confident in my knowledge and abilities, I am willing and able to lead and direct others.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have a willingness to encourage others by offering practical information, insight, alternate perspectives, and/or ideas for solving problems. I tend to be detail-oriented and analytical by nature. I typically find it easier to be supportive of others, yet have been challenged in the areas of consistently encouraging and nurturing myself.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I enjoy helping and serving others in my personal and professional experiences.

[H]eart

1. Reading, singing and listening to music.

2. Laughing and connecting with people though humorous observations and experiences.

3. Spending time with sisters, nephew, and friends

Women and teenage girls

Praise and Worship, and Drama Team

In-reach and Outreach ministry to support and heal child, teen, and adult survivors of sexual assault

In-reach and Outreach ministry for those managing chronic illnesses.

Abuse/violence
Educational
Health/fitness

[A]bilities

Scrum Master/Team Lead for a Software/Systems Test Team

Software development and testing
Systems admin/engineer/analyst
Database applications/administration
Website and web applications development/management

Singing
Interpreting and conveying technical/analytical information in layman’s terms
Public speaking

Dyslexia Tutoring/Teen Mentoring (volunteer)
Reading/Literacy (volunteer)

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

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

Although my family lived in Atlanta, as a child/teen, we regularly attended a small African-American CME church in a rural city where my father was born (40 miles outside of Atlanta). Most church members were relatives. Church services were only held on 2nd and 4th Sundays because the pastor also served on 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays at the nearby church. I “joined the church” as a young child and sang in the choir from childhood until I left to go to college. My parents expressed their faith in God in their own ways without directly teaching their children. Hence, I never really understood what it meant to be a Christian or have a personal relationship with Christ. Typical of that generation, children were mostly seen, not heard, and expected to “follow the rules”. I occasionally attended church in my 20s and 30s and sang in choirs in college/work. I gave my life to Christ in 2012 alone in my living room at a point in my life when I accepted that couldn’t carry the “burdens” of life anymore. TOL is the only church I’ve attended regularly or joined as an adult. I am still learning what it means to have a relationship with Christ (i.e., get out of my head where I struggle with accepting who God is, open my heart to really seek after and trust in Him, develop a prayer life, and letting go of my perfectionist tendencies of not knowing how to be and/or “feel” like a Christian in the “right” way). However, I know without a doubt that He knows where I am in my journey, continues to “speak” to me through my experiences and others, and brought me to TOL to help me grow in my faith.

Children and Young Adult Choir, Bold Springs CME Church, Jackson, GA (late 1970s-1989)

DNIMAS Scholarship Choir, Norfolk State University 1989-1994
Black Expresession Gospel Choir, NSA 1994-2000

Voices of Praise, TOL, 2016-present
Leadership Team, TOL 2016-present
Drama Team, TOL 2017

Raised by parents who valued education and modeled serving others (family and church). They made great sacrifices to provide us with opportunities to explore our gifts, interests, and talents (i.e., academic, extracurricular and cultural activities, vacations throughout Georgia and surrounding states, driving between GA and VA at the beginning/end of each college semester)

Attended predominantly African-American elementary and high schools and undergraduate college that provided academic (i.e., STEM), social, and cultural opportunities for personal development. Received full academic/work scholarships and co-operative education/internships that paid for my Bachelors (Norfolk State) and Masters of Science (John Hopkins) degrees.

Established and maintained supportive friendships with women throughout my personal and professional life.

Survivor of childhood molestation and teen rape

Obesity and its mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical challenges

Witnessing my mother’s 35-year painful and debilitating experiences of living with severe Rheumatoid Arthritis and my father’s nearly 10-year diagnosis and debilitating decline of living with Dementia/Alzheimer’s Disease.

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. Renew my mind/spirit and develop/maintain healthy habits (nutrition, exercise, weight loss)

4. Create a ministry/platform/business to help female survivors of sexual trauma through their healing journey to claim/reclaim their sense of value/worth and develop healthy, bold/fearless relationships with God, themselves (mind, spirit, body), and others

5. Debt free, travel to remaining US states (27 to go) and Continents (3 to go)