PLACE Ministries has had a major impact on my personal life and academic career. When I was first introduced to the DISC personality in PLACE, I immediately applied the knowledge gained to my relationships, professional career and ministry. Because of PLACE, I am more confident and experience greater success in my endeavors. As a Christian educator and administrator, I have the opportunity to teach students who are seeking their God-given vocation, career, and calling. To help them achieve this, each year I offer them myPLACE as a part of the curriculum. The students love it! During conversations with the students, it is so encouraging to hear them reference how the tool impacted their life. This is always the highlight of our class time together. I believe in myPLACE. It has enhanced and developed me personally and professionally like no other resource.

Right after graduating from Samford University I completed the PLACE Profile and specifically the spiritual gifts and passion sections of the PLACE Profile helped guide me to look for opportunities outside of my field of study. I am currently serving as a Regional Team Leader for Impact America. I feel myPLACE was a major part in guiding me to a job I love and feel God has uniquely created me to thrive in. I would like to see every college student have the opportunity to learn how God created them through myPLACE.

As a freshman at the University of Georgia I discovered through myPLACE my spiritual gifts of prophecy and mercy. More than just discovering my spiritual gift myPLACE showed me how to use my spiritual gifts. I learned how to use the spiritual gift of prophecy in a winsome way with an agnostic friend and the spiritual gift of mercy with another friend who was a new Christian struggling with lifestyle choices. myPLACE has had a major impact in my life during college and can do the same for you.

As a student at Moody Bible Institute the PLACE assessment was so helpful for me to be able to begin understanding myself better. See the way that God created me and has specifically gifted me to minister to people has been really eye opening. I am super thankful for PLACE. The PLACE assessment is a helpful tool that I recommend to anyone who is interested in diving deeper into understanding their God-given gifts and abilities.

When I did the myPLACE assessment last year, my strongest spiritual gift was Helps. Combining that with my other gifts, Jay McSwain helped me come to the conclusion that I was best suited for a second-in-command or right-hand-man kind of position. Leaving our meeting I was a little perplexed. I wasn’t disagreeing with the assessment, I just didn’t know what that would look like for me. But over time it’s become more and more apparent that it was accurate. I’ve found myself in positions where I have been second-in-command or the right-hand-man and I see how comfortable I am in them. The myPLACE assessment was spot on, before I was even sure of it myself.