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

Thank you Suzanne Wilson 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):

50%

53%

59%

56%

53%

43%

12%

28%

34%

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:
God has given me a positive outlook, I can see the wonder of the world and the good in people and I love to share it and be with people who share it too. I believe I can encourage others, through infectious enthusiasm, sharing wonder, sharing vision and action

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have been blessed with always having enough. Although I enjoy material things I do not think I am a slave to them and therefore try to hold good things lightly. I enjoy giving and helping others. I often feel others are more gifted than me so want to support their ministry and giving is a great way to do that.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I don’t feel gifted in this but I do feel blessed to have God in my life. My testimony is that he came and helped me when I had not acknowledged him Lord, had sinned against him and felt alone and lost in the world. He sought me and loved me and so it is all I can do to share that Love with others

[H]eart

1. Reading books

2. Hanging out with my kids (movie night, going on walks, eating dinner together)

3. Walks with friends and family

Community – people making a difference in their own lives. Adults who have experienced injustice and develop their own voice and power

Poverty, injustice

Parenting
Poverty/hunger
Policy/politics
Other – Community

[A]bilities

Chief Exec of Lockleaze Neighbourhood Trust
financial management, fundraising, strategy, management, building management (enjoy least), relationship management

Policy development (HE, City innovation), Recruitment consultant

Emotional awareness and understanding
Literacy
Understand and apply new concepts (social, economic)
Critical thinking
Empathy
Enthusiasm and joy

Project management
Leadership

My mind, my big heart, my children

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

High Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

People 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

Justin Welby talk about God picking people up in times of crisis – yearning for God but stuck in unbelief (friends who were Christian, Catholic primary school -outside looking in – went to messy church with my kids). God divorced, sad, smoking drugs to numb pain, did alpha, gave up drugs, became a Christian

Reading 1984

Kith and Kin volunteering

Positive people in my life (friends)

Divorce

Depression

Drug use

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. Community hubs in every neighbourhood lead by local people

4. Faith and community coming together seamlessly

5. micro enterprise support, opportunity for people to try new businesses without risk