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

Thank you Temwa-Wene Mwalimu 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):

56%

59%

59%

59%

62%

62%

56%

59%

81%

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 a passion for breaking down scripture and making it more relatable and understandable.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
God has shown me immense grace and mercy over the course of my whole life, this has in turn encouraged me to pay it forward to a lot of the people that I interact with.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:

[H]eart

1. I love serving and helping out in whatever capacity that I can. I find fulfillment in working on projects or ventures that are much larger than just myself,

2. I love music, I play the guitar and I’m passionate about praise and worship.

3. I love teaching/educating. I believe the Lord has given me gift to teach and that brings me fulfillment in life.

I enjoy working with school-aged children usually between 6 to 12 years old.

the Young Adults Ministry excites me the most because I also get to live life with friends that are in a similar stage of life.

Homelessness
Marriage/family issues
Educational

[A]bilities

Teaching

Marketing

Singing, playing guitar.

My voice.

[P]ersonality

Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Retriever’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Otter’, and here are the descriptions of your Personalities, and how they can be used for God

Golden Retriever- Good at making friends. Very loyal. Retriever personalities do not like big changes. They look for security. Can be very sensitive. Very caring. Has deep relationships, but usually only a couple of close friends. Wants to be loved by everyone. Looks for appreciation. Works best in a limited situation with a steady work pattern.

Strength: Accommodating, calm, affirming
Weakness: Indecisive, indifferent, unable to express emotional, too soft on other people
Limitation: Seeing the need to be more assertive, holding others accountable

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

[E]xperience

I came to know Christ back in 2007 while I was still in Zambia (my parent’s home country). I grew up in a Christian home, my father was (and still is to this day) a pastor. I grew up knowing the Christian lingo, my parents made sure that me and my sisters grew up in an environment where Godly values were upheld. My father would always call the family in for devotions and bible studies where I would learn a lot of head knowledge about the faith. However, growing up in a Christian family did not by any means make me a Christian, even though by many outward standards I would have considered myself a good person. Even though I new a lot about Christianity, I did not yet know Jesus in such a personal manner at the time, I was merely doing it because that is what I was taught to do and I became good at going through the motions.
Then one fateful day as I was coming back from school, I arrived home and I happened to stumble upon a documentary on one of the Christian channels, the documentary basically tackled the question of where I would spend eternity either at death or when the LORD himself returns. The fact that I had grown up in a Christian environment meant that I had heard about messages like this countless time before, but this particular time I felt the spirit of God convicting me of my own sin and suddenly all the gospel messages that I had heard in the past all began to make sense on a much more personal level. I believe the Spirit of God was showing me in those moments that I was in desperate need of a savior, not only to flee judgment, but also to be made whole and experience the fullness of what it means to be a child of the living God.

I served as a youth leader for my youth group at a church back in Zambia. I did this from 2012 to 2015. I also served as an usher for the church.

I served as a bible-study leader for one of the on-campus small groups during my time in college at the Florida Institute of Technology. The college campus ministry was with InterVarsity. I served from 2016 to 2019 when I graduated from college.

I also served as a leader with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) and the Vacation Bible School at First Baptist of Melbourne in Florida. I served during the summer of 2016, 2017 and 2018.

When I first came to the U.S. as a student, my first roommate’s family essentially took me under their wing and the Lord used them to provide for me during some really hard time through my time in college.

Finding a job in the Aviation industry after I graduated, this job was the reason I moved from Florida to South Carolina.

My parents teaching me in the ways of Christ and also providing a living example for me and my sister to follow. This collection of experiences has stayed with me even long after I had left my father’s house.

Coming to United States and leaving Zambia was, in many ways initially a negative experience. I basically left my entire family, friends and familiar environment to come to a country that I was born in but never grew up in. I had to adjust to and learn a lot about the culture, the people and just the overall different environment. The Lord used this experience to eventually get me out of my own shell and to grow as a Christian.

Having a huge deficit in my tuition when I first started college in Florida. I was born in the United States, but my parents both are not American. This meant that my parents could not be able to provide for me financially during my time in college. However, the Lord sent many people my way during this time. It was during this time that I really grew spiritually by depending on God’s providence, my identity as a Christian grew as my faith became my own and not just because I had grown up in a Christian household. Things were not always easy, but the fact that I’m still here is a testament to how much God had provided for me during these hard times.

I lost my job back in October and this experience again taught me the importance of relying on God for everything. I have since found a new job.

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. To be an example to my co-workers and business partner showing what it means to be a follower of Christ.

4. Growing my business platform so that I can better be able to provide for my family back in Zambia.

5. To work on making videos and film.