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

Thank you Amanda Woods 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):

90%

56%

78%

28%

68%

62%

62%

50%

78%

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 ran multiple grant programs and helped organize nonprofits early on when I went into my undergraduate degree in college and prior to that I worked with non-profits since elementary school in the sixth grade.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
My background is in psychology and social work and I have done a lot of work as a case manager in my undergraduate program with many people from all walks of life that I have needed to relate to that has helped me develop this gift.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have been tutoring since I was in junior high. I have worked with Energy Express, Third Base, and schools. I taught at seminars for teens going into college at my university. I was a teacher for three years at the Salvation Army teaching remedial reading through a grant program to kindergarten and first grade.

[H]eart

1. Writing

2. Teaching

3. Organizing events

I have done a lot of work with children and adults. I’m not sure I have a specific age range I prefer.

I enjoyed being involved in VBS this past year. I am hoping to work on something with human trafficking as well.

Abuse/violence
Educational
Other – human trafficking

[A]bilities

I am currently a graduate student and I write.

Teaching, case management, library assistant, editing, organizing and implementing nonprofit programs.

Writing, organizing events, teaching.

Personality assessments, tobacco education, tobacco cessation, spiritual gifts inventory, Tobacco policy, AIDS education, various writing topics. I’ve done research projects and presented at various conferences on a school, state, and national level.

enjoying obtaining knowledge.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

Low Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

Solo

Variety

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

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 grew up in the church. My family has traditionally been Catholic but I was raised by my great grandmother and grandma and they didn’t really go to church anymore due to health issues. They let a friend take me to a protestant church, but bought books about Christianity for me. I became a believer sometime in elementary school but was not baptized until attending Gateway. I did not attend a church quite some time trying to figure out where I belonged and because I had a bad experience. I did live with a pastor’s family (his wife was a friend) because of home problems while I was in high school and attended church with them. Gateway is the first church I put declared membership at as an adult.

Winter Jam encouraged me to open back up to a church.

Interning as a caseworker for an HIV/AIDS program.

Learning how to run my own classroom at the Salvation Army.

Family abuse and dysfunction

Having a therapist who forbid me to go to church.

Dealing with unfair court procedures.

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. Finish my graduate work and teach as a professor.

4. Write and publish books and effectively run the Christian publishing company I started.

5. Begin an organization that helps address human trafficking in our area.