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SPIRITUAL GIFTS

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Speaking Gifts   Teaching: Ability to convey and apply the Word of God to people’s lives by using effective approaches to engage learners.   Pioneer: One with public speaking gifts and passion. Service Gifts   Teaching: Visionary, goal-oriented leadership; taking charge with efficiency and productivity.   Pioneer: Ability to offer wise, biblical advice by coming alongside others to affect needed change; not necessarily a professional therapist.   Giving: Ability to provide for the needs of others, including but not limited to financial ability.   Healing: The ability to affect the health of others; those in the medical profession and those who can assist in mental/spiritual healing.   Helping: A special servant who loves to help others and meet needs in a variety of areas. People-Intensive Gifts   Encouraging: Means "to call alongside"; having the special ability to cause others to feel welcomed and encouraged.   Evangelism Having a special ability to relate to those who don't know Christ and share him, in a relevant, meaningful way.   Hospitality: A special ability to welcome and care for others, often through the use of one's home.   Leadership: The ability to inspire others to follow; includes the passion and skills needed to move others in a direction.   Helping: A special skill for empathizing with others and showing compassion.   Shepherding: Having a heart to notice, nurture and care for others while guiding them in a spiritual direction. Support Gifts   Discernment: The ability to see things clearly and accurately; to advise others of spiritual and practical courses of action.   Faith A special ability to see the unseen and to respond in faith, and the ability to help others do the same in following God.   Knowledge: Well-studied and knowledgeable in the scriptures.   Prayer: A special conviction to bring the names of others before God.   Wisdom: Special ability to apply knowledge with tact and honesty to the lives of others, from a broad range of experiences. CONTINUE Click here to continue the S.H.A.P.E. profile.  There are four more sections which completes the S.H.A.P.E. profile and this form.

HEART

What do I have a heart for, or what motivates me the most?

What group or ministry do I feel most compelled to help?

What restless urgings do I have regarding the needs or concerns of others?

If I knew I could not fail, what would I attempt to do for God?

Please check the items that apply most to you:   Design/Develop: I love to make something out of nothing. I enjoy getting something started from scratch.   Pioneer: I love to test and try new concepts. I am not afraid to risk failure.   Organize: I love to bring order out of chaos. I like organizing things that are already started.   Operate/Maintain: I love to maintain something efficiently that is already organized.   Acquire/Possess: I love to shop, collect, or obtain things. I enjoy getting the highest quality for the lowest price.   Excel: I love to be the best and to make my team the best. I enjoy setting and attaining the highest standard.   Influence: I love to convert people to my way of thinking. I enjoy shaping the attitudes and behavior of others.   Perform: I enjoy being on stage and receiving the attention of others. I enjoy being in the limelight.   Improve: I love to make things better. I enjoy taking something that someone else has designed or started and improve it.   Repair: I love to fix what is broken or change what is out of date.   Lead/Be in Charge: I love to lead the way, oversee or supervise. I enjoy determining how things will be done.   Persevere: I love to see things to completion, persisting until they are finished.   Following the Rules: I love to operate by policies & procedures, meeting expectations.   Prevail: I love to fight for what is right and oppose wrong, overcoming injustice. CONTINUE Click here to continue the S.H.A.P.E. profile.  There are three more sections which completes the S.H.A.P.E. profile and this form.

ABILITIES
Place a check in the box next to your best natural talent(s):
	Entertaining: to perform, act, and speak
	Interviewing: to discover what others are really like
	Researching: to read, gather information, and collect data
	Artistry: to conceptualize, picture, draw, paint or photograph
	Graphics: to lay out, design, create visual displays or banners
	Evaluating: to analyze data and draw conclusions
	Planning: to design and organize programs and events
	Managing: to supervise people to accomplish a task or event and coordinate the details involved
	Counseling: to listen, encourage and guide with sensitivity
	Teaching: to explain, train, demonstrate and tutor
	Writing: to compose articles, letters or books
	Decorating: to experience the enjoyment of beautifying a setting for a special event
	Editing: to proofread or rewrite
	Promoting: to advertise or promote events and activities
	Repairing: to fix, restore and maintain
	Feeding: to create meals for large or small groups
	Boarding: Keeping guests from out of town in your home
	Recall: to remember or recall names and faces
	Mechanical: to operate equipment, tools or machinery
	Resourceful: to search out and find inexpensive materials or resources
	Counting: to work with numbers, data or money
	Classifying: to systematize and file books, data or records so that they can easily be retrieved
	Welcoming: to convey warmth, develop rapport, or make others feel comfortable
	Landscaping: to do gardening and work with plants
	Public Relations: to handle complaints and unhappy people with care and courtesy

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PERSONALITY

Instructions: Mark on the scales below the relative strength of each personality trait: 1. Where do I get my energy? Extrovert: I get energy from others. People re-charge me. Introvert: I get energy from myself. People drain me; being alone recharges me. + -----------------------------------------   -----------------------------------------+ Extroverted 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 Introverted

2. How do I make decisions? Thinker: I base judgments more on impersonal analysis than on personal values. I am objective and need the facts. Feeler: I base judgments more on personal values than on impersonal analysis and logic. I am intuitive and subjective. I just feel the right thing to do. + -----------------------------------------   -----------------------------------------+ Thinker 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 Feeler

3. What kind of tasks do I prefer? Routine: I like the predictable and standard way of doing something. I do not like to do new things, and it takes me time to get used to change. Variety: I like unpredictable and new ways of doing things. I like change and diversity. For me, variety is the spice of life. + -----------------------------------------   -----------------------------------------+ Routine 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 Variety

4. How do I like to express myself? Self-controlled: I like to be in control of myself in my speech, facial expression, physical reaction and mood. I want to b in control of my manner & expression in all situations. Self-expressive: I like to be open and outgoing and say what is on my mind. I want others to know what is on my mind and how I feel. I like to “let it all hang out.” + -----------------------------------------   --------------------------------------------+ Self-controlled 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 Self-expressive

5. How do I relate to other people? Cooperative: I like to share and be helpful. I prefer to agree and do everything together at the same time. I don’t like to compete all the time. Competitive: I like to compete against goals and objectives. I like to “shoot for the top ring.” Competition “turns me on!” + -------------------------------------------   -------------------------------------------+ Cooperative 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 Competitive

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EXPERIENCES Reflect on the types of experiences you have had:

My conversion experience (How and when I became a Christian and what it has meant to me since then):

My educational experience (Where I attended school, favorite subjects, seminars or training that has been meaningful to me):

My ministry experience (What ministries I have been involved in before):

My painful experiences (The kinds of trials or problems I can relate to and, therefore, ways I could encourage a fellow Christian):

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