OUR MISSION IS TO END THE CYCLE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE STARTING WITH INCARCERATED WOMEN.
10/19/2025
Our Founder and CEO, Sherry Sims, leading us through the Empowered Women of God Vision Dinner. Celebrating 10 years of empowering trauma survivors and transforming lives through faith, healing, and lasting behavioral change for incarcerated women.
Empowered Women of God is a Tulsa-based nonprofit that works with incarcerated women to break cycles of abuse, addiction, and criminal behavior through faith, trauma healing, and mentorship.
Since 2015, they’ve reached over 4,000 women in 10 states. Their mini-book Searching for Love and 30-lesson correspondence course, The Freedom Project, help women heal at the root level and prepare for re-entry.
The results are incredible — 8 out of 10 women accept Christ after hearing the founder’s story, and less than 1% of women who complete the program reoffend. They’re now partnering with God Behind Bars to put this content on 500,000 tablets in prisons nationwide.
It’s a small, efficient organization (75% of every dollar goes directly to programs) making a massive impact on women, families, and ultimately Oklahoma’s future.
10/01/2025
Empowered Women of God International is a 501(c)3 nonprofit founded by Sherry Sims in 2015. A survivor of domestic violence and abuse, Sherry uses her testimony to set women in abusive relationships free, rehabilitate those who are incarcerated, break the cycles of domestic abuse and recidivism, and lead women to the cross where they can find forgiveness and healing in Jesus Christ.
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In February 2015, Sherry Sims was invited to share her story at the Washington County Correctional Facility in Bartlesville, OK. In attendance were 29 female inmates who listened intently as she openly shared how, with God’s help, she finally broke the cycle of domestic abuse after two failed marriages and several near-death experiences. At the end, 16 of the 29 female inmates prayed the prayer of salvation and received Christ as their personal savior.
Before exiting the courtroom, one of the women broke out of line to thank Sherry personally for sharing her story. Hugging her she said, “You came here today just for me!” She then explained, minutes before the meeting she asked God what she should do about her boyfriend. Since he was responsible for her incarceration and she was being released the following week, she needed an answer because she never wanted to end up in prison again. Because of Sherry’s story that day, God gave her the answer she prayed for.
During Sherry’s drive home that day, she knew in her heart what she needed to do next: put her story into a minibook and distribute it to women in prisons, correctional facilities and jails – free of charge.
Since then, Empowered Women of God International, Inc. has published and distributed thousands of complimentary copies of Searching for Love to women in prisons, correctional facilities and jails in Oklahoma.