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

Thank you Susan Goss 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):

59%

40%

56%

62%

25%

37%

37%

40%

84%

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 love to equip other people with knowledge and facilitate their learning toward making them more effective

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I want to support the Gospel being preached to people who do not have access to the Gospel. I also like to give when there is a specific need that I feel I can help meet.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I can do these tasks, even if I am not the wisest with it. I think things should be organized and processes put in place in order to increase efficiency and prevent energy being spent figuring out what to do each time (to the extent possible). Documentation is important for future reference or for validating current events.

[H]eart

1. Equip others to be effective in their lives, whether work or personal

2. Travel and trying new things

3. Spending time with Matt

Adults of any age who seek to grow and learn

Missions excites me the most
My biggest concern is the instructional skills of teachers and leaders

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Financial stewardship
Health/fitness

[A]bilities

training manager and project manager

teaching children

facilitating learning
planning lessons
planning future projects
creating processes and frameworks from nothing as guidance for working
identifying categories of concepts or principles to guide performance and thinking

how to teach adults

ability to analyze
(quite frankly, I don’t know)

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

50-50 Routine/Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Lion’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Beaver’, 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

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

[E]xperience

I accepted Christ when I was four years old

Vietnamese Outreach International – board member and missions

Bethel Worship Center (church plant in Suffolk, VA) – missions director, two years

Bethel Temple Church (Hampton, VA) – young adult group leader

attending missions conference when I was 8 years old

teaching instructors how to teach in my job

grandfather telling me I could be anything/do anything – that I was capable

negative treatment by my father that influenced my self-esteem

rejection by peers in school

growing up without much money

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. travel and equip church leaders and teachers how to facilitate learning experiences for people

4. start a business of equipping teachers that generates income through online access, including writing a book, creating courses, providing tools

5. live in various countries for short periods of time supporting missionaries and spreading the Gospel to unreached people groups