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

Thank you Angela Perkins 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):

53%

81%

87%

65%

71%

75%

59%

87%

90%

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 have learned a lot through scripture and I love to share because I want others to know and have victorious lives.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
The Bibles truths bring so much hope and life. I love to share a perspective that others didn’t see or think about.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I just love to serve. It makes me feel like I have an opportunity to make someone elses day go better.

[H]eart

1. Talking to women who are struggling in their marriage.

2. Looking at what’s around and figure out how to create so to make it better.

3. Study the Bible and discover new revelations.

Married women, mothers

Bible study, marriage

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Educational

[A]bilities

Housewife

Day support supervisor and manager for residential homes for intellectually disabled and developmentally disable.

Encourage people, helping others, being resourceful

Sunday school

I’m an all around people. I have the belief that there is nothing I can’t do.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

High Risk

50-50 People/Project 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

I accepted Christ as my LORD and Savior at the age of 8. I grew up in a Christian home.

I was in the choir growing up at Emmanuel Baptist in DC (4ish yrs) and in the choir and usher at Greater Triumph Missionary Baptist in Chatham, VA (2 yrs).

At Tabernacle Baptist church in Petersburg, VA, I was a co-teacher to and 4 yr olds (1ish yr).

I was the WOW Moms overseer at Mt Gilead for 5ish years and I helped out at the desk in Admin during the day (8ish years).

I grew up in a good Christian home which I found out later was a rarity so I one of those who had many good memories. I was able to take several trips with family including a cross country trip and CA from MD. I’ve gotten to see God’s world for myself. I saw that all things were possible.

My mother taught us to know God. She also started to read the Bible all the way through, I was the oldest so I was the one she shared with daily what she was learning so I had a lot of Biblical knowledge before going to college. Excellence was expected so I graduated from college being 1st in my school of Agriculture and Applied Science. With God, I knew that I could do anything.

Aug 13, 2021 after dropping off the last of 7 children child off to college, I retired from mothering. God had given me this mandated that I knew I was not equipped for nor wanted to do but only with His direction, correction and empowerment, we have had all children to get to college on the highest scholarships available at the university. 4 were offered full ride scholarships and the other 3 had Presidential scholarships. Not only have they been successful academically but they are in a weekly zoom Bible study with their spouses continuing to grow spiritually.

After my freshman year, I got married and had our 1st child. After the 2nd child and graduating with the highest honors , God told me that I was to be fruitful and multiply and be a keeper at home. I cried because I had a degree in Animal science and I did not have any interest in that call. I had been taught to obey so I obeyed dealing with one day at a time but God did many miracles along the way resulting in 7 children and 12 grandchild. I can relate to other women who understand their call as married women and can use practical ways to raise children.

I got married at 18 and my husband was 19. We were young and went through A LOT of ups and downs. He said he was a Christian but it was only in word. So I had to learn how to live as a believing wife and mother. God has kept the marriage, the children, and me. I have a strong compassion for women who are dealing with the struggles of marriage.

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. This may sound crazy but I don’t have goals set for myself. I only want to do what God has for me so I seek Him daily for directions.

4. I love seeing the world but God has opened doors for me so I just seek to be fully available to Him each day.

5. I don’t know how to set God’s because God’s blessings have been more than I could ever imagine so I let Him handle the future.