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

Thank you Janine Guadagno 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):

68%

87%

43%

43%

46%

46%

62%

62%

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:
I feel it is a blessing to share what God has done in my life with others.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I like problem solving and setting up systems to institutionalize change.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
This is my graduate training and my life career – I use to teach science in a Christian HS and have taught Sunday school classes for all ages for many years.

[H]eart

1. I love to explore God’s word with others.

2. Disciple young or unbelievers.

3. Work with groups meeting the needs of the disadvantaged.

5 year olds – both sexes; High school and middle school girls and Women of all ages and all understandings of the scripture.

Supporting the Durham Rescue Mission. Discipline women of all ages. Using fitness as a means of reaching the unchurched.

Poverty/hunger
Educational
Health/fitness

[A]bilities

Care giving to grandchildren and disabled adults.

Teaching Middles School and High School Science. Fitness Instructor. Environmental Scientist for US Army.

Teaching, writing, caregiving, gardening

Environmental Issues, Creation, Many different women and young women issues.

Outgoing and love the Lord.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

High Risk

Challenger

People Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Team

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

My grandmother came to live with me and wanted to attend church. I was recently remarried and had a 5 year old child. I was unchurched but felt my education in spiritual and moral instruction was lacking and wanted something different for my daughter. Found a church that met both their needs and they asked me to attend too. For three months I was instructed on what it meant to be a Christian and realized that I needed Christ in my life. I choose to follow His calling and have been learning more about being a Christian ever since.

Calvary Road Baptist Church. Alexandria, VA 1988-1995 (5 year old SS teacher, Fitness Instructor, Youth leader, Bus Driver)

Tabernacle Christian Academy, Tabernacle Baptist Church, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1995-2012. (Christian Science Teacher, MS/HS, PE teacher and Health teacher; Women’s Ministry, Youth Leader, Women’s Bible Teacher, 5yr old SS teacher)

Ridgecrest Baptist Church, Durham, NC, 2012- present. (5 year old Connect Group leader, Ambassador for Durham Rescue Mission, Garden Ministry, Laughter and Latte Table leader, Women’s Discipleship Group leader)

Meeting and marrying my husband, Ralph Guadagno

Teaching in a Christian School

Taking care of my grandchildren, Linda and Henry Anthony

Being a child of divorce and abandoned by my father – learning to forgive him.

Divorcing my first husband and helping my daughter navigate the loss.

Recovering from losing my sister to a drunk driving accident and my brother to a motorcycle accident caused by aggressive driving. Learning for forgive their assailants.

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. Writing full time

4. Going on a Mission trip

5. Volunteering regularly at the mission