Isaiah One Nine Ministries, Inc.
Cheryl T. Sims, Visionary
Ministry Biography
- Cheryl T. Sims, Visionary
Cheryl Sims, a licensed minister of the Gospel, serves the Lord in the body of Christ as a prophetic dancer, choreographer and teacher. She has functioned as a liturgical dance leader for over 25 years.
Cheryl is married to George Sims, Jr., a prolific entrepreneur and musician. In the 1990’s, they pioneered Christian Fitness Business by visualizing, establishing and operating Fix Your Temple Fitness Center. They have two children, George Alvin III and Aleecya Cherye’. They are members of Rhema Christian Center, Dr. La Fayette Scales, Apostle where they originated the fitness program, “Our Fitness is Our Witness” of the church’s family life center and have both served on the praise and worship team in music and dance.
She has studied dance, as a student at Morgan State University, The Eubie Blake Center and The Baltimore Dance Theatre (in Baltimore, MD); The Ohio State University Department of Dance, at BalletMet, including being instructed by April Berry of Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre and Daryl Kramer, Shir Lee Wu, and several Christian dance organizations in Columbus, Ohio.
Cheryl’s professional career consisted of serving at the State of Ohio as a Budget Management Analyst (in the Office of Budget and Management), Management Analyst (in Welfare Reform Policy), Social Program Administrator (in Child Care, Title XX, and Block Grant Administration), Fiscal Officer and Management Analyst Supervisor (ODJFS Fiscal Office).
She earned a Bachelor of Science in Mental Health Administration at Morgan State University and a Masters of Public Administration at The Ohio State University.
Her public service with the State of Ohio was interrupted by a divine encounter with Sarcoidosis, a respiratory disease which attacks the lungs. Upon receiving her release from public service, she began the process of accepting the call to ministry. Along the journey, she has been a minister of the Dance Brigade Unit of the Rhema Christian Center Academy of Performing Arts which functions as a thriving marketplace ministry school that trains performing artists for service in the Kingdom of God.
Currently, she is a minister with the newly formed Prophets Who Dance Network and Visionary Leader of The Next Move Dance Ensemble and Spirit and Truth Productions, LLC. In liturgical dance, she brings a modern jazz approach with a focus on glorifying the Lord in spirit and truth; she ministers with a touch of creative administrative flair.
She has authored two books: What Kind of Dancer Are You? and The Garments of the Godly Dancer with New Renaissance Media Publishing. Also a third work, titled Dance Children, Dance!, is her 2015 written project which explores the Hebrew and African roots of liturgical dance that are in the Bible.
Her ministry motivation scripture is found in Isaiah 61 as it is restated by Her Commander in Chief, the Lord Jesus Christ in Luke 4:18-19.
Why us?
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the bling, to see at liberty them that are bruised,
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Luke 4:18-19