WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — In a family spanning three generations, three sisters — Mary Davis, Lenaco Mole, and Juanita Orr — stand united not just by blood but by their unshakable faith in Christ and their shared battle against breast cancer.
In 2016, Mary (the eldest of three) became the first of the sisters to face breast cancer, receiving a diagnosis that shook her but ultimately strengthened her reliance on Scripture. “I pulled up the healing Scriptures and let them marinate inside of me,” Mary said. “I listened to them every day, even while I slept.”
Three years later, Juanita, the youngest of the trio, found herself walking the same path her eldest sister had bravely navigated. "The nurse said, ‘You have stage two breast cancer,’” Juanita recalled. “I heard it, but I didn’t hear it. It was like, what did she just say?”
Mary passed down the same 101 healing Scriptures that had sustained her, giving Juanita the courage to endure the long nights when fear seemed most overwhelming.
Then in 2020, Annette felt something was wrong and insisted her doctors run further tests. The diagnosis was devastating: stage two, metastatic triple-negative breast cancer — an aggressive and fast-growing form of the disease. She endured grueling treatments, including the “Red Devil,” a potent chemotherapy drug. “At one point, I felt like dying would have been better,” Annette admitted. “It didn’t seem like the cancer was killing me, but the medicine was.”
Annette eventually went into remission, only to face cancer again when it returned in her lymph nodes. During the darkest nights, her faith remained her anchor. “this pain that hurts all the way down in your bones, and all you can do is pray and call on Jesus” she said.
All three sisters are now in remission, a milestone celebrated with tears and prayers.
“What got me through was seeing that they made it through,” Annette said. “They shared their experiences, and the Scriptures Mary sent me to listen to at night helped me so much.”
Mary sees her journey as a testament to God’s healing power. “Jesus is the healer, the only one I know,” she said. “I passed on the prescription with love because He is love.”
Their testimony is one of resilience, faith, and prayer. “Prayer changes things,” Juanita said. “To anyone diagnosed or any survivors, just continue to pray. You can’t go wrong with prayer.”
As Mary summed up with gratitude: “We don’t look like what we’ve been through, and I thank God for that.”
Three sisters, three survivors, and one enduring story of grace and sisterhood.