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

Thank you Tammy Matson 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:

71%

21%

21%

21%

28%

28%

40%

43%

21%

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 am good at organizing, planning, looking at details, and working and communicating with others verbally, and written. I can perform a wide variety of tasks.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I am open and willing to help people in many ways. I receive instructions well, and I also am able to give instructions, lead others, and delegate tasks. I know that even the most menial task I do, especially if it is to help someone else, is something that the Lord notices, even when no one else does.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have enjoyed helping a couple of friends, by being there for them with a listening ear, talking about my faith and how I use it to get through the ups and downs of life. One is new at being a Jesus follower. The other has strayed but is a believer. Both have had troubled lives, and haven’t been able to get past it, or how to allow Jesus to fully help them. I also enjoy leading my women’s small group. There are members that I enjoy that help me and I am able to help some who are early in their faith walk, as well.

[H]eart

1. Listening and singing music.

2. Spending time with family and friends.

3. Help connect people to others, give information, offer suggestions, to help them accomplish God’s will for them.

People who love the Lord and love life. Age 40 to 80, women. Single, married, divorced, or widowed. I don’t mind men, either, same age range.

Concerned that most churches are not growing, but are losing members. Churches not knowing what to do about it or ineffective at resolving things. People not knowing Jesus, but just “religion”. Churches not using the Bible as the basis for what they do, or not placing enough importance on people using a Bible in church and at home.
Concerned that there are so many other forms of obtaining information online, that people no longer think they need to go to church. People isolating themselves from others.
Churches not spending enough time on helping mentor pre-marital couples, mentoring struggling marriages, and things to keep people from arriving at divorce.
Churches not empowering or helping men in the congregation to be leaders, as God has called them to be.

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Spiritual laziness

[A]bilities

Ministry Assistant

Call Center-Outbound Research Interviewer; Para-professional; Childcare; Community Health Education; Health Educator; Conducted Insurance Physicals; Research records; Medical Assistant, Hospital Laboratory Assistant, Phlebotomist, Optometric Assistant.

Organizing, oral and written communication, outbound cold calling, interviewing, typing, multi-tasking multiple projects, organizing large number of volunteers, coordinating volunteers for small and large events, recruiting volunteers. Work well with all types of people. Project planning and implementation.

Stress Management; Wellness topics

Communicate well

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

Team

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

I was raised up in church and it was a part of my family and extended families lives. I don’t remember a specific time I gave my life to the Lord. My Mother taught me by example and explanations, as I was growing up, how to have a personal relationship with Jesus.

Did contact phone calling for a few months for King of Kings.
Worked for about one year in Mom’s Day Out at King of Kings.
Connections Ministry Assistant, 2009 to present
Connections Volunteer at King of Kings, approx. 2000 to 2009.
Recruited volunteers for the yearly Boutique King of Kings had.

Approx. 1987-1988, Was part of a committee to formerly start a new church within the church called University Lutheran Chapel, Lincoln, NE. UNL students attend there while at school, while keeping their home membership, but there were some who continued attending there post-graduation, and this group wanted to be able to have an official membership at this location. The proposal didn’t go through.

Some community service, when in High School, through my Churches Teen group.
Mid-1970’s

My good relationship with my Mother, and how she taught me about Jesus, and growing my faith.

Close relationship with Grandparents, Aunts and uncles, and even great-Aunts and uncles. Examples of walking the Christian life.

Having a good childhood growing up on a farm. Not perfect, but I had loving parents and family.

Losing loved ones and friends to death.

An important prayer request I had, wasn’t answered for 10 years. I can now explain what I learned from that.

Dealing with a family members’ mental illness.

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. I don’t know

4. I don’t know

5. I don’t know