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

Thank you Teresa Youngstrom 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):

62%

62%

65%

37%

81%

50%

25%

34%

43%

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 enjoy loving on people especially those who seem unlovable by others.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have always been a positive person and see good in people. I like encouraging others.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I like being in charge of things. My parents were like this and ran several businesses and always led in their organizations. I like responsibility.

[H]eart

1. I like helping people. I have learned that God needs us to do things that no one might see but will bring joy to someone else. I have learned that I get joy when I serve others.

2. I like encouraging others with words or sharing my nursing experiences to help them through their challenges with parents or family.

3. I enjoy singing praise and worship songs at church, in the car at home or anywhere.

I enjoy caring for seniors. They are frequently left behind but should be well respected and cared for.

I enjoy the welcome center because I like meeting people and talking to people. I like singing at church. I love serving on the care team.

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Parenting
Other – Seniors especially those with Dementia

[A]bilities

Educating people on serving people with Memory challenges

Most fields of nursing.

Compassion, nurturing, encouraging.

Memory care, fall prevention, lead jr hi girls Bible study

Compassion8

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

Leader

Team

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 was raised in a Catholic family. We went to church on Sunday and practiced Catholic traditions but never opened the Bible. After got married, I realized my husband was never going to understand the Catholic way of practicing faith and I had started questioning this myself. We had a business group of friends also searching for a better way to learn about God and started church shopping. We were encouraged to find a Bible teaching Christian Church and that lead us to Parkside were we were baptized and raised our family.

Parkside Christian Church, Cincinnati, OH 27 years.

Being told by a pastor that I can be the priest to people. That I can share the word with them and even lead them to accept Christ as their savior.

Enrolling our children in a Bible School which challenged us to get busy learning the Bible ourselves.

Participating in Bible studies or doing life with other Christians who have been good examples for how I should live my life, and just recognizing God working in my life. Leading, guiding, challenging me.

Dealing with death and dying in my job

Seeing Leaders of churches go through real life challenges some winning some falling. We are all people. None better than another.

Witnessing the difference in how believers die and non believers die while working in hospice. Very different scenarios

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. Be a leader in bringing respect and comparrionate care to our seniors especially those with memory challenges

4. Stop abortion and provide homes and care for unwanted births

5. Make sure everyone had the opportunity to make a well educated decision to follow Christ.