Christine Caine has spent her life fighting. Not for herself — for others. As the founder of A21, one of the world's largest anti-human trafficking organisations, she has rescued victims from modern slavery across the globe. As the founder of Propel Women, she has equipped and empowered women leaders on every continent. Based out of London with a reach that spans the world, Christine is one of the most influential voices in global Christianity.
Then the fight came to her.
The Diagnosis
Cancer. The word landed on a woman who had stared down traffickers, corrupt officials, and systemic injustice without flinching. Christine had walked into the darkest corners of human evil and brought light. She had stood in courtrooms and border crossings and rescue centres and refused to back down.
But cancer does not care about your resume. It does not respect your calling. It arrives uninvited and demands your full attention.
Christine received the diagnosis and faced a reality that every person in her position must face: the leader needs help. The rescuer needs rescuing. The woman who has spent her life telling others to be brave must now find her own bravery.
The Community
Christine Caine had spent decades building a global community. A21 has offices in thirteen countries. Propel Women reaches hundreds of thousands. Her speaking engagements take her to conferences around the world. When her cancer diagnosis became known, that community responded.
Prayer came from the A21 team in Greece, Thailand, the Philippines, Ukraine, and South Africa. It came from Propel Women chapters across the United States and the United Kingdom. It came from pastors, friends, and strangers who had been impacted by her work.
The woman who had built networks to rescue others discovered that those same networks could carry her. The infrastructure of compassion she had created for trafficking victims became the infrastructure of intercession for her own healing.
The Treatment and the Fight
Christine underwent treatment. She approached it the way she approaches everything — with fierce determination, honesty, and a refusal to let fear have the final word. She was transparent about the difficulty. She did not pretend that faith made the treatment painless or the fear disappear.
What she did say was that God was present. Not in a vague, theological sense. In the room. In the treatment chair. In the waiting. The same God who had sustained her through years of confronting human trafficking was sustaining her through cancer treatment.
Cancer-Free
After treatment and prayer, Christine Caine was declared cancer-free.
She did not slow down. She returned to A21. She returned to Propel Women. She returned to stages and conferences and advocacy work with the same intensity she had before — but now carrying a testimony that gave her words a different depth.
When she speaks about perseverance now, she speaks as someone who has had to persevere through her own body failing her. When she tells audiences that God is faithful, she tells them as someone who tested that faithfulness in the most personal way possible.
What This Means for You
Christine Caine's story is for anyone who has spent their life pouring out for others and now finds themselves in need. If you are the one people come to for strength, and now you need strength yourself — you are not disqualified. You are not weak. You are human.
The God who called you to fight for others has not abandoned you in your own fight. He is the same in the hospital as He is on the mission field. He is as present in your treatment as He is in your calling.
Christine fought cancer and won. Not because she is extraordinary. Because the God she serves is. And He is the same God who is with you right now.
