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

Thank you Vanessa Stakes 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):

43%

15%

84%

59%

81%

12%

28%

65%

37%

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 am an encourager because I am able to see the positive side of things. I err on the side of optimism. I know that people are capable of great things and that sometimes they just need someone to believe in them so that they can believe in themselves.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I understand that we are all imperfect human and that God’s grace is very powerful. I am not so important that I can judge others. We are commanded to love and that includes showing mercy.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have a strong belief that we are to serve others. In doing so, we can step outside of ourselves. This can lead to an increase of understanding, empathy, and joy.

[H]eart

1. Connecting with others

2. Learning

3. helping people feel important and to smile

Anyone who needs an encouraging word. Children through adult.

mental health, family life

Alcoholism
Marriage/family issues
Parenting

[A]bilities

student in psychology, mother

catering, baking

compassion, understanding and optimism

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

50-50 Follower/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

I became a christian slowly. It was through struggles and trials combined with several people put into my life to support and guide me.

Learning who I am and that I do not have to conform to society

The birth of my 3 children

An experience, in which I realized that I was someone people looked up to and wanted to be around. Something that I still doubt, but am trying to remember and live up to

The struggle of an eating disorder for 15 years, culminating in the participation of a 6 month residential treatment program

Anxiety, depression, co dependence, and low self esteem in myself and mental illness in family members

A very challenging marriage on the brink of divorce and the overcoming of it.

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. Create a successful program for the awareness and overcoming of disordered eating, addiction, and eating disorders, that would give hope and change the lives of many. This would include recovery, relapse prevention, and the most importantly, prevention by working with children and adolescents.

4. Create a home and life in which people of all ages and circumstances feel welcome, safe, comfortable and important. In addition, I would love to be a person who makes each person I come in contact with feel Gods love through me, with the hope that they feel their self worth and importance.

5. My neighborhood and community feels very unconnected and I would love to bring people back together, having kids playing outside, knowing all your neighbors and being there for them. In relationship to this, I would love to create a group for kids to perform service activities in order to connect with each other, their community and to step outside of themselves