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

Thank you Valerie 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):

68%

81%

81%

53%

100%

81%

59%

75%

96%

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 feel like I truly care about others and ache for them. At times I feel powerless, except through prayer. I know that I could step out more and really serve them.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love taking complex ideas and making them easy and helping others see patterns and different ways to see and understand and create analogies, lessons, interactive opportunities, etc. to understand a concept. Plus,I’ve done it all my life-almost.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
So I think I’m more of an encourager than an evangelist, and those scores were tied, but I see evangelism as wanting to really reach large groups for Christ and I can teach large groups, so maybe that’s it.

[H]eart

1. Talking with others and just sharing and learning about and from them.
Do nice things for others-without them knowing is fine.

2. Learning new things and sharing them.

3. Playing with my little house and yard.

People others don’t care about, people in leadership who need encouragement, elem age kids,older people- not babies and not adults, except to serve along side them- not the babies.

Working as a liaison between elem.schools and church mission projects for disenfranchised people.

Poverty/hunger
Educational
Other – Teaching kids the importance of service

[A]bilities

Retired

Teaching
Writing
Mission work
Service industry

I can make others feel at ease. I’m not shy. I can write teach. I really care about others. Make analogies, see patterns. Cat whisper.

A lot- taught for nearly 30 years!
World religions

My passion for others- when my heart is right and wanting to encourage them.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

Team

Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Otter’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Retriever’, 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

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

[E]xperience

I became a Christian when I was 7, public profession of faith at 12, but my greatest testimony has been how Christ has carried me through roadblocks and illnesses that made me rely on Him. I’ve learned that truly relying on Him ( which I am still working on!) has given me the best adventure ever in my new retired life.

Mission work in college

Teaching inner city and rural kids who had nothing and suburban kids(and their families) who seemed to need Christ the most.

Sung a little, did vas, etc stuff

Mission work led me to teach even though I didn’t want or plan to teach or go to that mission field assignment

Marrying my honey and instantly becoming a mother yet not one.- custodial step parent.

Teaching world history-that I didn’t want to originally do either-allowed me to learn about other cultures, patterns, religions and share the Gospel because it was in my curriculum
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Issues in childhood, $, shame, body issues
Not fitting in

Migraines and arthritis that made me dependent on others

Being a step parent,not fitting in as a young married,
Miscarriage

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. Missions home/ abroad-homeless women’s project

4. Coordinating a program with elem kids like a book drive and helping their teachers

5. Something that really reach others in a variety of ways so that kids and adults, but kids especially have a place to belong