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

Thank you Taylor Werden 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%

87%

87%

75%

81%

62%

65%

75%

65%

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:
After overcoming a dark period in my life, it became easy for me to tell others who are also struggling how I got to where I am today. I find joy in bringing people to Christ, especially those who are reluctant and skeptical.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I’m an extremely compassionate person with a huge heart. I’ve also suffered a lot of pain throughout my life. I can connect and relate to many people through my own experiences. It’s easy for me to have serious heart to hearts with others. Many people confide in me and find it easy to come to me if they are struggling.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
After making a huge mistake in my past, I try to remind myself we are all human and everyone makes mistakes. By the grace of God we are forgiven so I always try to be understanding when it comes to making mistakes.

[H]eart

1. Working with individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities

2. Traveling the world— teaching in third world countries, building homes, taking care of rescued elephants in South East Asia.

3. Gardening, interior decorating, taking photos with film cameras, hiking and being in nature, spending time and making memories with my loved ones

Individuals with Intellectual or Physical disabilities of all ages, like minded individuals, or children

Help with raising money for individuals like myself to go on missionary trips

Poverty/hunger
Disabilities
Other – Mental Illness

[A]bilities

Preschool teacher

Special Needs Aide, Marketing Manager And Project Director for a non profit in Thailand, High School English teacher in Thailand, waitressing, helping prepare and set up picnic meals for businesses at baseball games.

Patient and compassionate towards individuals with special needs and children as well as a lot of knowledge about most disabilities. CPR, First Aide certified. Photography skills.

Why we should not use the r-word (Retarded)

Volunteering in Thailand

My heart, patience, compassion, organizational skills, worldly experience, and travel knowledge.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

High Risk

Peace Maker

Project Driven

Leader

Routine

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

Raised in the church, saved and baptized around age 13, parents got divorced, became distant to God, stopped going to church, depression and anxiety spiraled, dark period of my life, found Christ again, overcame, go to church and serve regularly and attend 2 journey groups.

Working with individuals with special needs for the past 8 years.

I lived in a village in Thailand for 6 months. I taught English, helped better the community by working in the rice fields, socializing with the locals, helping where help was needed, and recruiting volunteers to give up their time to help as well.

Repairing and building houses in Cambodia for those whose houses were destroyed by monsoon season.

When I was 5 and my sister was 1 my dad cheated on my mom and my half sister was born. They chose to stay together for the sake of me and my sisters. They got divorced when I was 16.

I have suffered from depression and anxiety since childhood. I went to counseling weekly at age 6 through Middle School.

There was a time in college where the darkness consumed me. I grew distant from God, felt hopeless, bitter, and numb. I made a huge mistake that is very difficult to tell people or talk about in fear I will be judged or not looked at the same.

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. Adopt a baby with Down Syndrome someday, foster and adopt other children as well

4. Build a school in South East Asia

5. Open a work shop/ preschool/ extra curricular center for individuals with special needs