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

Thank you Tyesa Harvest 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:

78%

78%

75%

56%

53%

59%

56%

84%

75%

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 always enjoy helping people in ministry and have a heart to serve no matter how big or small the task is.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I enjoy sharing the gospel and helping people understand God’s heart towards his creation.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have a knack for organizing .

[H]eart

1. Praying

2. Encouraging people

3. Helping those in leadership with a task

I love to work with young women in their 20’s and early 30’s. College age women and young women in STEM fields.

Prayer and teaching

Drug abuse/recovery
Alcoholism
Educational
Other – prostitution

[A]bilities

Electrical Engineer

teaching and customer service

Gift of wisdom and discernment, public speaking and encouraging people

Engineering projects/processes, prayer, how to witness to youth/ people

Relating to people

[P]ersonality

Reserved

Peace Maker

Project Driven

Leader

Team

Routine

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

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

Beaver- Organized. Beavers think that there is a right way to do everything and they want to do it exactly that way. Beaver personalities are very creative. They desire to solve everything. Desire to take their time and do it right. Beavers do not like sudden changes. They need reassurance.

Strength: High standards, order, respect
Weakness: Unrealistic expectations of self & others, too perfect.
Limitation: Seeing the optimistic side of things, expressing flexibility

[E]xperience

I was intrigued by the ‘Christians’ in my high school and started to watch a popular tv show called the Awakenings aimed at teens produced by a church in Chicago. The goal was to show real life issues and how the Lord loved them no matter what. It was great evangelism show and I wanted to know more. After the show I watched Showtime at The Apollo theater (LOL) and Creflo Dollar ( in the early 90’s). I received Christ after watching one of his broadcasts in my bedroom. A few weeks later I started going to church with my great cousin and unknowingly lead my family to join church.

Fellowship MB Church, Chicago, IL, young adult club leader (1-2 years), admin for Youth Conference (2 years), Sunday School teacher (3-4 years), Youth Announcing Clerk (3 years)

Faithful Central Bible Church Englewood, CA. Decision Counselor/Youth Decision Counselor 2.5 years.

Fountain of Praise Houston, TX. Care Counselor 4 years

I had 2 amazing math/science teachers in elementary school. They encouraged me to excel in math/science as well in reading/writing surprisingly.

Meeting Dr. Butler in undergrad and she helped me attend graduate studies in electrical engineering.

Moving to California alone right after graduate school.

I went to a predominately white institution and a calculus teachers assistant called me out and asked why do we need the National Society of Black Engineers because of my shirt. I was also discouraged by counselors in the minority engineering /retention program in undergrad that I wouldn’t graduate. I did graduate and I try to encourage engineering women who are first generation college students like I was due to my experiences.

I grew up around a lot of alcoholics/drug users. Some were delivered and others not so I am sensitive to those who are users and family members of abusers. I didn’t know about the Holy Spirit at that time nor had a personal relationship with Christ. I did know God loved me but I didn’t understand anything. I love encouraging people and explaining the Lord’s forgiveness, explaining who the Holy Spirit is and encouraging those who are recovering from drugs/alcohol abuse.

I’ve experienced bad relationships like most single women and I took ‘hiatuses’ after tough relationships. During these times my relationship with the Lord grew stronger. I’ve always attracted young women in bad relationships and the Lord always gave me godly wisdom to help them in their relationships/relate scripture to the situation.

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. Start a non-profit to encourage middle school/ girls to purse STEM fields through projects, field trips, and help with homework/test preparation

4. I would go on a missionary trip

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